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LAS14

(15,503 posts) Wed May 22, 2024, 11:16 AM May 2024

Noam Chomsky on AI. The best short observation I've seen yet. [View all]

Last edited Wed May 22, 2024, 12:06 PM - Edit history (1)

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/08/opinion/noam-chomsky-chatgpt-ai.html

The human mind is not, like ChatGPT and its ilk, a lumbering statistical engine for pattern matching, gorging on hundreds of terabytes of data and extrapolating the most likely conversational response or most probable answer to a scientific question. On the contrary, the human mind is a surprisingly efficient and even elegant system that operates with small amounts of information; it seeks not to infer brute correlations among data points but to create explanations.

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Noam Chomsky on AI. The best short observation I've seen yet. [View all] LAS14 May 2024 OP

It's archived, and a good read. usonian May 2024 #1

Thanks for that link - and I agree, a good read. Jim__ May 2024 #2

I agree that AI has it limitations, but the potential breakthroughs in medicine and other fields by a powerful Martin68 May 2024 #3

Good points, kind of reminds me of the old saying, garage in, garage out, it's how you phrase your inquiries, SWBTATTReg May 2024 #6

And right now, this very fast and thorough pattern recognition is why AI is so important. erronis May 2024 #9

AI is neither fish nor fowl exclusively. It can assist developing answers and asking questions. It can also lead to Ford_Prefect May 2024 #4

AI and the Red Tie Brigade are exactly the same things Cheezoholic May 2024 #5

I tend to agree w/ Mr. Chomsky on this. If the human brain reacted too slow to sudden events, would we even all SWBTATTReg May 2024 #7

Noam hit the nail squarely. The key statement of fact in his words are...... jaxexpat May 2024 #8

The human mind and consciousness is capable of mining the future. airplaneman May 2024 #10

Artificial Intelligence is Mr.Bill May 2024 #11

Like the internet and most things there's both good and bad sides. live love laugh May 2024 #12