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I wonder if the people fearing AI get it that we haven't made machines that can actually feel/think/reason yet, they are still Chinese Rooms[1]. Even people lik
by netsharc 3y ago
I wonder if the people fearing AI get it that we haven't made machines that can actually feel/think/reason yet, they are still Chinese Rooms[1]. Even people like our lord and saviour Elon Musk (snort).
It would be utterly stupid to hook up ChatGPT to nuclear missiles. But then again, the same cluelessness above might lead people to believe that if the machine says "You need to hook me up to the nukes", the human might think, "The Computer surely knows what it's talking about, OK!".
[1] Because this is HN 2023: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room
- musicale 3y ago"For all I know, Searle may only be behaving as if he were thinking deeply about these matters. But, even though I disagree with him, his simulation is pretty good, so I'm willing to credit him with real thought." -N. Nilsson