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The A.I. expert Gary Marcus asks: What if ChatGPT isn’t as intelligent as it seems? (58 kB)
https://www-nytimes-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.nytimes.com/2023/01/06/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-gary-marcus.amp.html

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OpenAI's ChatGPT is a system trained on heaps of online text, which has learned to predict the likely next word of a sentence, giving eerily human-like writing in response.However, Gary Marcus is an emeritus professor of psychology and neural science at N.Y.U., and he argues that what these systems are doing is cutting and pasting phrases and filling in the gaps. They do not actually understand what they are saying, and Marcus thinks that creating powerful systems that do not understand what they are telling us is not going to work out the way we hope it will.Though humans also use pastiche in speech, Marcus argues that the major difference is that humans have internal models of the world, for example, being able to close their eyes and still know where things are, representing character relationships from a movie accurately.Furthermore, these A.I. systems are not reliable or trustworthy as they don't always know the connections between the things they are putting together, therefore Marcus suggests that instead of trying to create massive networks to believe in, we should focus on understanding.
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Thanks GPT for the summary
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A:
its a great example - if it understood, it wouldn't have written it :slightly_smiling_face:

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Good listen this was - also explained, partly, the Giraffe thing
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A Skeptical Take on the A.I. Revolution 

The Ezra Klein Show

    • Society & Culture

The year 2022 was jam-packed with advances in artificial intelligence, from the release of image generators like DALL-E 2 and text generators like Cicero to a flurry of developments in the self-driving car industry. And then, on November 30, OpenAI released ChatGPT, arguably the smartest, funniest, most humanlike chatbot to date.

In the weeks since, ChatGPT has become an internet sensation. If you’ve spent any time on social media recently, you’ve probably seen screenshots of it describing Karl Marx’s theory of surplus value in the style of a Taylor Swift song or explaining how to remove a sandwich from a VCR in the style of the King James Bible. There are hundreds of examples like that.

But amid all the hype, I wanted to give voice to skepticism: What is ChatGPT actually doing? Is this system really as “intelligent” as it can sometimes appear? And what are the implications of unleashing this kind of technology at scale?

Gary Marcus is an emeritus professor of psychology and neural science at N.Y.U. who has become one of the leading voices of A.I. skepticism. He’s not “anti-A.I.”; in fact, he’s founded multiple A.I. companies himself. But Marcus is deeply worried about the direction current A.I. research is headed, and even calls the release of ChatGPT A.I.’s “Jurassic Park moment.” “Because such systems contain literally no mechanisms for checking the truth of what they say,” Marcus writes, “they can easily be automated to generate misinformation at unprecedented scale.”

However, Marcus also believes that there’s a better way forward. In the 2019 book “Rebooting A.I.: Building Artificial Intelligence We Can Trust” Marcus and his co-author Ernest Davis outline a path to A.I. development built on a very different understanding of what intelligence is and the kinds of systems required to develop that intelligence. And so I asked Marcus on the show to unpack his critique of current A.I. systems and what it would look like to develop better ones.

This episode contains strong language.

Mentioned:

“On Bullshit” by Harry Frankfurt

“AI’s Jurassic Park moment” by Gary Marcus

“Deep Learning Is Hitting a Wall” by Gary Marcus

 

Book Recommendations:

The Language Instinct by Steven Pinker

How the World Really Works by Vaclav Smil

The Martian by Andy Weir


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You can find transcripts (posted midday) and more episodes of “The Ezra Klein Show” at nytimes.com/ezra-klein-podcast, and you can find Ezra on Twitter @ezraklein. Book recommendations from all our guests are listed at https://www.nytimes.com/article/ezra-klein-show-book-recs.

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D: Today’s reflection:

What ChatGPT has to say when asked to write a poem about invisible chronic illness:
 
The loss that comes with chronic illness
Is not always easy to see
It's the things we had to give up
The dreams that will never be
It's the loss of our health and vitality
The loss of our independence and freedom
It's the loss of our plans and hopes
And all the things we used to be
But it's also the loss of our identity
The person we used to know
It's the loss of our relationships
And the connections that we used to grow
It's a loss that can be overwhelming
And it's not always easy to bear
But we must remember that we are not alone
And that others have felt this pain and despair
(Artist: Peter Vilhelm, The Open Door, 1912)
BTW: ChatGPT is Artificial Intelligence
 

10 comments

 
E:
Beautifully written. 
Does the idea that we don’t suffer alone because there are others in the same boat bring comfort to most chronically ill people?
I do find some validation that my experience is not unique. However, it makes me quite sad to know that there are many others enduring this stunted life.
At any rate, I send my love and support to all and my thanks for this page.
 
F:
What is chat gpt?
 
D:
Artificial Intelligence
 
F:
So you did not write this. A computer wrote it? Can you explain it to us more? It's very profound.
 
D:
I asked ChatGBT to write a poem about invisible chronic illness. In under 3 seconds it wrote the poem above.
 
F:
that's amazing!!
 
G:
Happy New Year Martin! Hard to fathom AI writing that poem!
 
 
H:
I am really surprised that cam from AI! Whaaaat? It's usually just gibberish. They are getting smarter. We should all be very afraid.  (I'm not kidding though... I know someone who developed a very sophisticated AI and he said he's terrified by what he created.)
 
I:
That could have been yours ~ I’m not a fan of A I. Too many bad scenarios possible
 
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Essential listening - two thoughtful humans actually thinking together, in public, about #AI #AGI Artificial General Intelligence on the Ezra Klein Show. https://podcasts.apple.com/.../a-skeptica.../id1548604447..
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