Putting the "intelligence" back in artificial intelligence

[Hanno Labuschagne]

Putting the "intelligence" back in artificial intelligence

Sam Altman, chief executive of ChatGPT-maker OpenAI, is reportedly trying to find up to US$7 trillion of investment to manufacture the enormous volumes of computer chips he believes the world needs to run artificial intelligence (AI) systems.

Altman also recently said the world will need more energy in the AI-saturated future he envisions – so much more that some kind of technological breakthrough like nuclear fusion may be required.

[The Conversation]

 

[TrueSeeker]

Fine tuned applications are way, way ahead of the all purpose models, albeit for narrow purposes. Having used some half decent AI programming tools, and also spent some time with the likes of the public GPT chat for comparison - I feel I can say this for certain.

 

[RedViking]

Fine tuned applications are way, way ahead of the all purpose models, albeit for narrow purposes. Having used some half decent AI programming tools, and also spent some time with the likes of the public GPT chat for comparison - I feel I can say this for certain.

That's what ChatGPT would say.....

 

[Harmonic]

I don't doubt this at all. A breakthrough in both semiconductors (quantum?) and energy is needed to propel humanity to the next level

 

[Mirai]

Fine tuned applications are way, way ahead of the all purpose models, albeit for narrow purposes. Having used some half decent AI programming tools, and also spent some time with the likes of the public GPT chat for comparison - I feel I can say this for certain.

If you used the proverbial Chinese Room, you'd also be amazed.

 

[neoprema]

More chips more power
Until the computers realize how good humans are as batteries…

 

[TrueSeeker]

If you used the proverbial Chinese Room, you'd also be amazed.

Well that's highly philosophical. As debates around what exactly intelligence is, are.

I'm not so hung up on the definition of intelligence. Slime molds can act intelligently. An octopus with more neural matter in its arms than in it's central nervous system can act intelligently. The solutions that AI programming tools come up with, in context and with impressive "insight" at times, are overwhelmingly intelligent enough for me to see it as a form of intelligence.

My cat can be devilishly intelligent in some ways. Wherever food is involved. Employing impressive psychological acumen. A narrow focus. More than sufficient. Dumb as a doornail in most other ways.

 

[Swa]

Now tell me why on earth would you not have it give you women with 3 legs and 6 fingers? That's ingenuity!

 

[TrueSeeker]

The cutting edge is way beyond 3 legs and 6 fingers.

 

[HAL 9000]

Meanwhile, back at Air Canada, a AI chatbot went 'off-script' and the airline got sued for 'false & misleading information' by a passenger who had made a last-minute 'bereavement booking' online...

 

[B-1]

More chips more power
Until the computers realize how good humans are as batteries…

We have to scorch the sky first.

 

[TrueSeeker]

All the demo clips by OpenAI, from the SORA launch.