Excellent post, especially appreciate the takedown of the "stochastic parrots" cliche. As a lefty, I'm troubled by what is essentially widespread AI denialism on the left. We can't properly respond to AI if we refuse to acknowledge what it can do.
After reading your post, I went and got ChatGPT to offer some thoughts on a number of images and they were as impressive as the result you got. Stochastic parrots my ass.
I agree with you Mr. Futrelle.. I however can't begin to afford ChatGpt and every query I entered to "sample" the program was returned. "That is not something my sample programs can answer." So this is blind. But I think it's pretty simple; if AI helps one of think, assists in collating data for one, that is great. If AI is used to replace an individual's own thinking, then I believe it's dangerous. It's that simple. We have a choice to use AI to enhance the mind and interject our ideas with it; or we have the option to let it do it all and obliviate all of own human mental capacities, in which case the war between the cows and pizzas occurs and the result is the somatic clouds that never again lift themselves from the permanent fog. (AI will prove its story telling abilities to me better when it can write with less delusional somatic endings. We have enough of that already of that disrealism encountering realism results in...mental illness.
Excellent post, especially appreciate the takedown of the "stochastic parrots" cliche. As a lefty, I'm troubled by what is essentially widespread AI denialism on the left. We can't properly respond to AI if we refuse to acknowledge what it can do.
After reading your post, I went and got ChatGPT to offer some thoughts on a number of images and they were as impressive as the result you got. Stochastic parrots my ass.
I agree with you Mr. Futrelle.. I however can't begin to afford ChatGpt and every query I entered to "sample" the program was returned. "That is not something my sample programs can answer." So this is blind. But I think it's pretty simple; if AI helps one of think, assists in collating data for one, that is great. If AI is used to replace an individual's own thinking, then I believe it's dangerous. It's that simple. We have a choice to use AI to enhance the mind and interject our ideas with it; or we have the option to let it do it all and obliviate all of own human mental capacities, in which case the war between the cows and pizzas occurs and the result is the somatic clouds that never again lift themselves from the permanent fog. (AI will prove its story telling abilities to me better when it can write with less delusional somatic endings. We have enough of that already of that disrealism encountering realism results in...mental illness.
found your petition from last article.
Great post. Love your analysis of how no one really expected this direction in AI. What do you think about AI takeoffs?
Definitely can't rule them out. A few years ago I would have said it was a certainty eventually. I've gotten more leery of making predictions now.
I enjoyed how the stochastic parrot folk came up with a superintelligent octopus that somehow could not understand the concept of a predator.