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submitted 1 year ago by ezmack@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

Feel like we've got a lot of tech savvy people here seems like a good place to ask. Basically as a dumb guy that reads the news it seems like everyone that lost their mind (and savings) on crypto just pivoted to AI. In addition to that you've got all these people invested in AI companies running around with flashlights under their chins like "bro this is so scary how good we made this thing". Seems like bullshit.

I've seen people generating bits of programming with it which seems useful but idk man. Coming from CNC I don't think I'd just send it with some chatgpt code. Is it all hype? Is there something actually useful under there?

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[-] exponential_wizard@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

The Turing test was never meant to be a test of a machine's ability to think. It was meant to boil that question down into a question that can actually be answered, but the original question remains unanswered.

In my opinion, when general AI arrives it will not be an "open debate", the consequences will be dramatic, far-reaching and rapid.

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm not even thinking of the Turing test, I'm thinking of the counter-example ones. Like asking how many eyes a ruler or desk has. Earlier GPTs would answer "one eye" or something, and it was used by the Chinese-room people as an example of why it was just a mimic. Now it correctly objects to the implicit assumption in the question.

You're right, "ChatGPT is currently our overlord" would be the strongest proof of intelligence. But absence of proof is not proof of absence. What is proof of absence, or a strong enough proof of presence is where the debate is.

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