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Top physicist says chatbots are just ‘glorified tape recorders’::Leading theoretical physicist Michio Kaku predicts quantum computers are far more important for solving mankind’s problems.
Leasing theoretical physicist Michio Kaku
I wouldn’t listen too closely to discount Neil deGrasse Tyson these days, especially in domains in which he has no qualifications whatsoever.
Just set your expectations right, and chat it’s are great. They aren’t intelligent. They’re pretty dumb. But they can say stuff about a huge variety of domains
Well, one could argue that our brain is a glorified tape recorder.
behold! a tape recorder.
holds up a plucked chicken
He’s a physicist. That doesn’t make him wise, especially in topics that he doesn’t study. This shouldn’t even be an article.
That’s an incredibly ignorant take.
LLMs are the first glimmer of artificial GENERAL intelligence (AGI). They are the most important invention perhaps of all time.
They will fundamentally change our society, our economy, and they pose an existential threat to mankind, not to mention begging existential questions about our purpose for existing at all in a world where very shortly computers will be able to out-think and out-create us.
Quantum computers are … neat. They will allow us to solve problems conventional computers can’t. They may make current encryption models obsolete … but I haven’t heard any proposed usage of them that would be even a fraction as profound as AGI.
They don’t really demonstrate general intelligence. They’re very powerful tools, but LLMs are still a form of specialized intelligence, they’re just specialized at language instead of some other task. I do agree that they’re closer than what we’ve seen in the past, but the fact that they don’t actually understand our world and can only mimic the way we talk about it still occasionally shines through.
You wouldn’t consider Midjourney or Stable Diffusion to have general intelligence because they can generate accurate pictures of a wide variety of things, and in my opinion, LLMs aren’t much different.
Flexing that sci-fi knowledge real hard, my dude.
The AI that you’re describing probably won’t even be possible (if it even is possible. We don’t even fully understand human intelligence/brains yet) until quantum computing is ubiquitous so your whole argument is illogical.
For my own silly sci-fi take, I believe our brains are probably closer to quantum computing than traditional computing.
The AI that you’re describing probably won’t even be possible until quantum computing is ubiquitous
…What? No, why would that be a requirement? Unless you just mean that QC is easier so it will come first by chance?
I have worked extensively to build out gpt-4 and give it memory and other attributes.
I have no doubt at all that with supplemental modules to expand its context, it’s absolutely an AGI.
Theoretical physicist and a questionable one at that
Kaku is a quack.
That’s an incredibly cool explanation.
Thanks for good article link
trekky0623@startrek.website 1 year ago
Remember the time Michio Kaku went on CBS to talk about Hurricane Harvey despite not being an expert on Hurricanes? He is a clout chaser who regularly steps outside his expertise to make hot takes for attention.
a_spooky_specter@lemmy.world 1 year ago
He’s not even a top physicist, just well known.