Scientific American reads like a romance novel. “Mario Krenn recalls sitting at a cafe in Vienna” poring over computer printouts. What the f ever. Just tell us about the quantum entanglement thingy.
There is no artificial intelligence here, even though the writer of prose says it is. If it was artificial intelligence, it would say, hey Mario, here is a solution that you hadn’t thought of. But it didn’t. It printed out a bunch of paper that poor Mario had to pore over.
It’s a computer program. Algorithms are like instructions, they do whatever they are written to do. Given enough variability, they can do unexpected things. They can be long and complex. This does not make them intelligent, artificial or otherwise. Supercomputers are very fast at processing calculations and executing instructions. The reason they aren’t intelligent is because they don’t have the processing power of even a small rodent.
“Algorithms are like instructions, they do whatever they are written to do. Given enough variability, they can do unexpected things. “
If they only do what they are expected to do how can they do the unexpected?
“It’s a computer program. Algorithms are like instructions, they do whatever they are written to do.”
Good observation in say, 1975.
Has virtually no application to neural networks, machine learning, and large language models in 2023.
They do their own thing, write their own code, evolve in a direction unanticipated by humans.