Your thoughts about AI

[Neo Emolga]

Yeah you're right. I can't help feeling a bit worried about it but I'm trying not to xD We had a uni professor come and give us a talk about how large language models like ChatGPT work last year. And he said it's all just statistics to predict the most likely next word in a sequence based on what it has been trained on before. Soit really has no concept of when things are true. But the most interesting thing he said was that the creators of these AIs don't even know how they work so well at predicting text, which means two things - when things go wrong or it says something unexpected, they have no idea why. And they can't really build on what they've created by tweaking it because they don't understand how they created it. So to get true AI we would actually need to take a step back. Not sure how much of that is true but the guy was a government advisor and researches AI stuff so I guess it should be true. Pretty interesting!

I think what it really comes down to is computers being very good and very fast at pattern recognition and leveraging the entire internet at a catalyst to train on patterns and procedures. At least that's my theory, but as you said, by recognizing patterns, it can then replicate those patterns into predictions, and the hardware is available for it to do it very quickly based on what models and contexts it has trained on before.

But yeah, I've read that, too, that the AI simply creates something but it doesn't stop to reflect on it. It's sort of weird and different from humans when they create something. Humans can be all over the spectrum when it comes to either feeling proud of something they created or on the opposite side where they believe they failed, even though another person with different tastes may perceive the creation totally differently.

Still, these AI things are pretty crazy stuff. It's the kind of thing we joked about as being some sci-fi impossible thing 20 or 30 years ago and now it's here. What's next, real time machines? Heck, they're already made a flying car and it's wild.

[Douglas]

I agree with all your opinions, but artificial intelligence has both good and bad sides. We should use it reasonably instead of relying on it blindly.

[Lulia]

Thanks for the emergence of this topic, which has helped me better understand the relevant knowledge points. Everyone's suggestions and ideas are also very meaningful.