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We can cherry-pick AI experts to pay attention to. Yann LeCun recently called current AI "dumber than a cat." Stephen Wolfram has written some very well thought
by gregjor 2y ago
We can cherry-pick AI experts to pay attention to. Yann LeCun recently called current AI "dumber than a cat." Stephen Wolfram has written some very well thought-through articles about LLMs and doesn't find much to worry about. Gary Marcus. I wouldn't ignore Geoff Hinton, but he can fall victim to the same mistakes anyone else can, as Gary Smith [1] described.
Pointing out that people of any era can get easily fooled by things they don't fully understand supports my position. Putting aside the obvious stock pumping and hype going on in the current AI bubble, plenty of people want to believe in AGI, or want to fear it, or just want to stay relevant. A decade from now we will only remember the people who made correct predictions.
[1] https://mindmatters.ai/2024/01/computers-still-do-not-understand/ https://mindmatters.ai/2024/01/computers-still-do-not-unders...