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"A GROWING FEAR and excitement for today’s AI systems stem from the assumption
that as they improve, something—someone?—will emerge: feed large language
models (LLMs) enough text and, rather than merely extracting statistical
patterns in data, they will become intelligent agents with the ability to
understand the world.
Alison Gopnik and Melanie Mitchell are skeptical of this assumption. Gopnik, a
professor of psychology and philosophy studying children’s learning and
development, and Mitchell, a professor of computer science and complexity
focusing on conceptual abstraction and analogy-making in AI systems, argue that
intelligence is much more complicated than we think. Yes, what today’s LLMs can
achieve by consuming huge swaths of text is impressive—and has challenged some
of our intuitions about intelligence—but before we can attribute to them
something like human intelligence, AI systems will need the ability to actively
interact with and engage in the world, creating their own “mental” models about
how it works.
How might AI systems reach this next level? And what is needed to ensure their
safe deployment? In our conversation, Gopnik and Mitchell consider various
approaches, including a framework to describe our role in this next phase of AI
development: caregiving."
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
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https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
