Posted on 09/22/2024 7:19:34 AM PDT by Dalberg-Acton
Einstein: Computers are incredibly fast, accurate and stupid; humans are incredibly slow, inaccurate and brilliant; together they are powerful beyond imagination.
Einstein: Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
“Presumably AI could find the data from bits and pieces on the web and then crunch some numbers.”
Garbage in, Garbage OUT.
Computers are inherently stupid, but fast and have long memories.
Search for reality? They don’t have a clue.
You will only have to wait a couple of years to see if AI meets the claims of its creators.
Buckle up....
In the end, however, it seems we agree on the potential for problems.
I’ve been using Elon Musk’s GROK AI. The text data on many subjects is really pretty good. But the results creating images with it is varied.
I’ve been on X (Twitter) die 15 years. It has become much much better since Musk started changing things. I upgraded my account status recently and it is like night and day how much better things are.
As humans, we make tools to do work to provide for our needs. That’s the initial reason. However, our innovation and creativity continue to be directed toward higher things, much like Maslow’s hierarchy of needs.
We were made in the image of our Creator. Ultimately, I think we create to understand ourselves better. Maybe the aim is transcendence.
AI research and innovation are a means to explore the “hard problem of science”, the nature of consciousness.
x.ai/about :
Our mission: “Understand the Universe”
Sometimes it has been stated as “to understand reality”.
Elon Musk recently elaborated: The goal is to create an AI that is “maximally curious” and that can “understand the world around it in a way that is fundamentally different from how humans do.”
I have been using GROK 2 beta on X.
The text analysis in some subjects is very deep and broad. BUT I have found cases where I try to reconcile things that it said there was no evidence of a couple of events that I knew actually took place.
And I question the machine’s ability to decide the important events within a particular situation.
Your wording of your query of subject will base the output on your key words. It may have the info stored, but unless it is specifically requested by related words it does not include that data.
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