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AI godfather Geoffrey Hinton: ‘We’re creating alien beings. I’m willing to be selfish and choose humans’
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/13/geoffrey-hinton-trump-ai-techReplying to @lavenie@lemmy.zip
It’s so demoralising to perpetually witness apparently intelligent people be convinced that Algorithmic Iterators can in any way be mistaken as a form of intelligence. I’ve struggled for decades to relate to the world; but this recent, collective debasement of rationality has nearly obliterated the few remaining foundations suitable to build hope upon.
Replying to @nonentity@sh.itjust.works
AI is about making machines that mimic human level intelligence. Whether they possess actual intelligence doesn’t matter. They just need to act intelligently.
You can disagree with the terminology, but it has been an active field of study since the 1950s.
Replying to @red_tomato@lemmy.world
Remember the Turing test? Damn goal posts move faster than the ball. I’m not sure how one could fail to be impressed by the technological advancements in the last 3 years in the field
Replying to @TronBronson@lemmy.world
An important variable of the Turing Test that is never spoken about is the intelligence (or gullibility) of the user.
Replying to @h0tbeef@lemmy.zip
Then define intelligence.
You can’t just say a thing is intelligent or not intelligent without coming up with a good definition. We are ugly meatbags of mostly water that are constantly driven by chemical processes. How the hell do you call that intelligent? Prove that we are intelligent, and then prove that the “algorithmic iterator”, that uses weighted metrics with an eerie similarity to neurons, isn’t actually intelligent.
Replying to @p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/intelligence
I know you’re not a fan of the dictionary, but they are the authority on words and their meanings.
Before you get too excited about definition 3 I suggest you familiarize yourself with what it means to “compute” www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/compute you’ll notice repeated use of the word “determine”. LLMs are by nature “non-deterministic” or in other words “incapable of determining / incapable of making a determination”.
A computer is deterministic
An LLM is a probabilistic next-word-guessing machine / software as a service
Replying to @h0tbeef@lemmy.zip
Your analysis of definition 3 also precludes the human mind as being capable of computation since biological systems contain inherent randomness that makes their output non deterministic.
Replying to @Darkaga@lemmy.world
I never asserted that a human mind could do computation