Interest in and use of AI and chat bots continues to grow, but are these machines really as smart as they seem or is all just hype? I spent some time this week looking at these artificial intelligence machines and the claims about their human like responses and some things are clear, the AI is not that smart, it doesn't understand what it is doing, and it will lie to you.
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Last week during the show when I was contemplating AI out loud, Dr. Dean Lloyd sent me a text stating that all AI is
theft. I don't accept many blanket statements, and I wont start here, but it is clear there is a concern. My own study
of the technology makes it clear that the results of direct input of entire/complete works of other people into
training these AI systems is fundamentally different than a similar, dare I say
derivative, work of a human
influenced by a book they read or a painting they saw. And so, questions about AI stealing from artists and authors/writers are valid questions that deserve direct answers.
Conversing with AI is a bit like conversing with a woke know-it-all type bent on preserving an appearance of superior knowledge and morality in the face of overwhelming evidence contradicting their claims and a clearly stated desire to handle the conversation differently Here is one such conversation.
Anarchy in Quotations
“But the Turing test cuts both ways. You can't tell if a machine has gotten smarter or if you've just lowered your own standards of intelligence to such a degree that the machine seems smart. If you can have a conversation with a simulated person presented by an AI program, can you tell how far you've let your sense of personhood degrade in order to make the illusion work for you?
People degrade themselves in order to make machines seem smart all the time. Before the crash, bankers believed in supposedly intelligent algorithms that could calculate credit risks before making bad loans. We ask teachers to teach to standardized tests so a student will look good to an algorithm. We have repeatedly demonstrated our species' bottomless ability to lower our standards to make information technology look good. Every instance of intelligence in a machine is ambiguous.
The same ambiguity that motivated dubious academic AI projects in the past has been repackaged as mass culture today. Did that search engine really know what you want, or are you playing along, lowering your standards to make it seem clever? While it's to be expected that the human perspective will be changed by encounters with profound new technologies, the exercise of treating machine intelligence as real requires people to reduce their mooring to reality.” -
Jaron Lanier
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