A.I. Is Poised to Rewrite History. Literally. – The New York Times: Johnson has been thinking all along about ways that historians and other authors could make money through the app. In our conversation in Mountain View, he put forward a possible new revenue stream: What if e-books of history came enhanced with a NotebookLM-like interface? Imagine, he went on, that “there’s a linear version of the story with chapters,” but then the primary materials […]
Speaking of AI and the illusion of sentience that seems to be tripping us up: “However much AI can mimic us or exceed us in certain capacities we can observe, still, that wouldn’t mean that AI is conscious, that it has subjective experience (what is sometimes called “sentience”). So it is unclear whether AI could, for example, appreciate beauty. It’s one thing to output speech and behavior that is humanlike or even, in certain respects, […]
What Happens When People Don’t Understand How AI Works: Large language models do not, cannot, and will not “understand” anything at all. They are not emotionally intelligent or smart in any meaningful or recognizably human sense of the word. LLMs are impressive probability gadgets that have been fed nearly the entire internet, and produce writing not by thinking but by making statistically informed guesses about which lexical item is likely to follow another. Many people, […]
Pro-AI Subreddit Bans ‘Uptick’ of Users Who Suffer from AI Delusions: The moderators of a pro-artificial intelligence Reddit community announced that they have been quietly banning “a bunch of schizoposters” who believe “they’ve made some sort of incredible discovery or created a god or become a god,” highlighting a new type of chatbot-fueled delusion that started getting attention in early May. “LLMs [Large language models] today are ego-reinforcing glazing-machines that reinforce unstable and narcissistic personalities,” […]
In an article on the BBC website, Pallab Ghosh writes: The danger is how AI and our relationships with it will change us. That seems more immediate than worries about AI going amok.
AI Chatbots Offer Spiritual Answers. Religious Scholars Explain Why: There is something irresistible about hearing that you alone have a connection to something secret or even divine. “AI can infer the preferences and beliefs of the person interacting with it, encouraging a person to go down rabbit trails and embracing self-aggrandizement they didn’t know they wanted in the first place,” explains Yii-Jan Lin, a professor at Yale Divinity School who has written about the apocalyptic […]
Something to think about from a recent Microsoft study More here.
I'm planning on posting more regularly, particularly regarding Artificial Intelligence and the impact on the Church's work.
