Raw LLM Responses

I once met Geoffrey Hinton in the 90s. I asked him what he thought about Hans Moravec's (a renowned robotics researcher and futurist) visions of a future of sentient robots, and humans merging with them and stuff like that. He told me he didn't believe any of it would happen. I learned that day that it's possible to do excellent science but have little appreciation for science fiction or philosophy, or the ability to extrapolate the very technology they work on. He's a great researcher and scientist, but imagining the future or making AI policy is *not* this man's forte, regardless of his academic contributions. His solution of government regulation is a rather infantile idea, if ever there was one, and will encourage extreme overreach. And international co-operation to pre-empt the development of rogue AI? Keep dreaming. There are many others much better suited to answering the question of AI and whether it represents a threat or not. For what it's worth, Google and Microsoft or those making self-driving cars are only interested in AI insofar as it can reduce their operating costs by automating mundane drudgery type work. The big philosophical questions about AI are not going to be answered by any of the researchers working at any of these places. And certainly they will not be building systems to answer such questions because of their focus on typical corporate priorities. See how he skillfully evades questions of sentience; he himself has no idea what it means or how to construct it. ChatGPT is a very modern version of an old thought experiment called Searle's Chinese Room: "Suppose also that after a while I get so good at following the instructions for manipulating the Chinese symbols and the programmers get so good at writing the programs that from the external point of view that is, from the point of view of somebody outside the room in which I am locked—my answers to the questions are absolutely indistinguishable from those of native Chinese speakers. Nobody just looking at my answers can tell that I don't speak a word of Chinese" ChatGPT is a neural network that parrots back without any true understanding of the content it generates. Its limitations will become apparent just like other neural networks before it like NetTalk which *appeared* to learn to read, but what it was actually doing is a pale shadow of how humans learn to read.