What Makes The New Sapience Approach Different? (Podcast)
The inaugural episode of the Synthetic Knowledge Podcast.
This episode’s question: What makes the New Sapience approach different?
Part 3: The Cognitive Dissonance of AI
In the field of psychology, cognitive dissonance is the perception of contradictory information. Relevant items of information include a person’s actions, feelings, ideas, beliefs, values, and things in the environment.
Part 2: AI Hope, Hype, and Disappointment
The history of AI has been driven as much by human psychology as by technology. Everyone understands its power and desirability, and everybody has an innate sense that they will recognize it, as always by its results, when it arrives.
AI Hype Alert March 2, 2022
Cerebras Systems said today that the company has achieved the computational equivalent of the human brain, or the equivalent of 100 trillion synapses.
Artificial Intelligence and Consciousness
The relationship between intelligence and consciousness has long been a matter of debate but the AI hype machine rolls on.
AI Hype Alert Feb 13, 2022
“It may be that today’s largest neural networks are slightly conscious.” OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever AI Hype-o-Meter There are so many things wrong about this statement I hardly know where to begin. What does “slightly conscious” mean anyway? Is that the mental state of someone after being forced to read endless articles making ridiculous and extravagant […]
The New Illusionists
Mustafa Suleyman, a co-founder of artificial intelligence research company DeepMind, has left Google to join venture capital firm Greylock Partners. In a recent interview he made the statement: “We now have AI systems that can generate new text, conversational sentences and whole paragraphs, which is approaching human-level performance.” Human-level performance at what? It is time for clarity about the difference between comprehending language and creating the illusion of comprehension.
AI Hype Alert Jan 20, 2022
“We now have AI systems that can generate new text, conversational sentences and whole paragraphs, which is approaching human-level performance.” Mustafa Suleyman, a co-founder of artificial intelligence research company DeepMind AI Hype-o-Meter Human level performance at what? People don’t generate text, they speak, they write, they articulate and comprehend. Suleyman is, of course, talking about […]
Algorithm Generated Text: Magical Thinking & Mediocrity
Today even statistical programs as humble as a regression analysis in an Excel spreadsheet are being called Machine Learning and by association AI. At the other end of the spectrum, we have the colossus known as GTP-3, or Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3, from the OpenAI group. It is the third generation so-called “language model” based on the “Transformer” algorithm developed by Google.
Stop Calling Everything AI!
I read an article last week that claimed that a linear regression in an Excel spreadsheet was actually Machine Leaning and by extension Artificial Intelligence. What next? When I was a child, we had mechanical adding machines that could certainly do arithmetic better than I could. AI too?