What baffles me is the number of humans who think they are in the personal possession of some super special sacred form of magical and unexplainable intelligence. "AI is just stats" yes, indeed, but so is human intelligence. In many ways, AI from 2010 was already better than human intelligence.
Three remarks:
- The task many people seem to be benchmarking against is not just a measure of general intelligence, but a measure of how well AI is able to emulate human intelligence. That's not wrong, but I do find it amusing. Emulating any system within another generally requires an order of magnitude higher performance.
- The degree to which human intelligence fails catastrophically in each of our lives, on a continuous basis, is way too quickly forgotten. We have a very selective memory indeed. We have absolutely terrible judgment, are super irrational, and pretty reliably make decisions that are against our own interests, whether it's with regard to tobacco use, avoidance of physical exercise, or refusal of life-saving medications or prophylactics. We avoid spending time learning maths and science because it's not cool, and we openly display pride in our anti-intellectual behaviours and attitudes. We're all incredibly stupid by default.
- AI researchers need to work more closely with neuroanatomists. The main thing preventing AI from behaving like a human is the different macro structure of human NNs vs artificial NNs. Our brains aren't random assortments of randomly connected neurons: there's structure in there that explains our patterns of behaviour, and that is lacking in even the most modern AI. We can't expect AI to be human if we don't give it human structures.
Three remarks:
- The task many people seem to be benchmarking against is not just a measure of general intelligence, but a measure of how well AI is able to emulate human intelligence. That's not wrong, but I do find it amusing. Emulating any system within another generally requires an order of magnitude higher performance.
- The degree to which human intelligence fails catastrophically in each of our lives, on a continuous basis, is way too quickly forgotten. We have a very selective memory indeed. We have absolutely terrible judgment, are super irrational, and pretty reliably make decisions that are against our own interests, whether it's with regard to tobacco use, avoidance of physical exercise, or refusal of life-saving medications or prophylactics. We avoid spending time learning maths and science because it's not cool, and we openly display pride in our anti-intellectual behaviours and attitudes. We're all incredibly stupid by default.
- AI researchers need to work more closely with neuroanatomists. The main thing preventing AI from behaving like a human is the different macro structure of human NNs vs artificial NNs. Our brains aren't random assortments of randomly connected neurons: there's structure in there that explains our patterns of behaviour, and that is lacking in even the most modern AI. We can't expect AI to be human if we don't give it human structures.