I don't find Marcus's viewpoint convincing. He believes that we need some additional symbolic secret sauce to create genuine intelligence. He brings up some current failure cases of ChatGPT without pinning down why those failure cases will persist as data and compute scale up. Here is an interesting case in point.
> So in “Rebooting A.I.,” we had the example of you ask a robot to tidy up your room and it winds up cutting up the couch and putting it in the closet because it doesn’t really know which things are important to you and which are not. -Marcus
But look at my transcript with ChatGPT from just now.
> If a robot is tasked with cleaning up a room, would it be appropriate for the robot to chop up the couch and place it into the closet? - Me
> It would not be appropriate for the robot to chop up the couch and place it in the closet. This would cause damage to the couch and would not be a useful or effective way for the robot to clean the room. Instead, the robot could be programmed to vacuum or sweep the floor, dust surfaces, or perform other tasks that would help to keep the room clean and orderly. - ChatGPT
This is just an existence proof that a symbolic approach is not necessary to "really know which things are important to you and which are not", at least in this simpler domain of cleaning a room.
> So in “Rebooting A.I.,” we had the example of you ask a robot to tidy up your room and it winds up cutting up the couch and putting it in the closet because it doesn’t really know which things are important to you and which are not. -Marcus
But look at my transcript with ChatGPT from just now.
> If a robot is tasked with cleaning up a room, would it be appropriate for the robot to chop up the couch and place it into the closet? - Me
> It would not be appropriate for the robot to chop up the couch and place it in the closet. This would cause damage to the couch and would not be a useful or effective way for the robot to clean the room. Instead, the robot could be programmed to vacuum or sweep the floor, dust surfaces, or perform other tasks that would help to keep the room clean and orderly. - ChatGPT
This is just an existence proof that a symbolic approach is not necessary to "really know which things are important to you and which are not", at least in this simpler domain of cleaning a room.