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Comment by grey-area

5 months ago

Seems a bit premature given the current state of word generators.

I guess top mathematicians are also mere word generators?

https://openai.com/index/model-disproves-discrete-geometry-c...

  • Being a human may be sufficient (with important exceptions) to play chess, but playing chess well is not sufficient to be a human.

    Likewise with math, it turns out, it appears. Likewise with most other things we classify as needing intelligence, I bet. It turns out that intelligence is not the same as humanity or sentience etc..

    • But they're gaining more and more formerly exclusively human capabilities, increasingly advanced ones. The future isn't here yet, but good policy requires extrapolating and considering predictable consequences before they happen.

  • They’re useful tools, they’re not general AI, nor are they anywhere near the scenario in Dune.

If you're going to do a jihad it'll be easier against ChatGPT than waiting till they have Terminator 2 style things.