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We humans are not digital. We are body and mind conjoined
7+ hour, 8+ min ago (398+ words) Recently, Peter Biles noted that AI is forcing the return of writing by hand in the classroom: Educators across the country are faced with two options: Either allow students to use AI in their writing/learning processes or start getting…...
The Great AI Experiment Continues
3+ week, 1+ day ago (409+ words) More recently, interviews reported by The Guardian report: AI researchers, economists and tech workers said that essentially, we're all living through an experiment. Over the next few years, tech companies' experimentation with AI will probably lead to several critical outcomes:…...
AI Artificial Intelligence Review Part 3: Out of the Pool and Into the Woods
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (403+ words) This doesn't really work for multiple reasons, but the most obvious problem in the beginning is that this toy bear is an earlier model of an AI, and it's not even on par with the other robots in the script....
Why AI Can't Create Like We Can
1+ mon, 4+ week ago (750+ words) AI belongs to this world of necessity and it is bound by the inputs we give it: code, training data, prompts. It has no imagination. But what we recognize as creativity in AI is actually coming from a source we're…...
Artificial Specific Stupidity is Easy to Find " Just Ask
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (511+ words) mindmatters. ai Donald C. Wunsch II The grandiose claims of AI emergence keep coming. And certain aspects are true. It is possible to search for a much broader and more specific range of topics using natural language, that is, more like…...
How to Navigate the Real and Immediate Risks of AI
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (181+ words) mindmatters. ai While the risk of AI becoming smarter than humans and taking over the world is often discussed, it can also distract us from a more pressing matter: the real-world, right-now risks of AI. On this episode of Mind…...
Computer Intelligence Versus Human Intelligence
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (744+ words) Even though the users knew they were interacting with a computer, many were convinced that the program had human-like intelligence and emotions and they happily shared their deepest feelings and most closely held secrets. Source The first concerns the Eliza…...
Large Language Models (LLMs) Are Inherently Frail and Unreliable
4+ mon, 1+ day ago (567+ words) The public unveiling of Open AI's Chat GPT on November 30, 2022, was met with justified astonishment along with unjustified hopes and fears that computers might be on the verge of artificial general intelligence (AGI), the ability to perform cognitive tasks as…...
The Core Problem with Large Language Models
4+ mon, 5+ day ago (506+ words) I have shared many examples of the unreliability of Open AI's Chat GPT, Google's Gemini, and other large language models (LLMs). Recent examples include evaluating a rotated tic-tac-toe grid, and labeling a possum's body parts. Some correspondents have objected that…...
The Ins and Outs of Scaling Up AI: Dr. Donald Wunsch
4+ mon, 5+ day ago (154+ words) mindmatters. ai On this episode of Mind Matters News, we're continuing our conversation with Dr. Donald Wunsch on his experiences with AI and his recent article in the IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine about artificial general intelligence. This is the second…...