Bizarre article. Just a rant from someone incredibly out-of-touch and who is missing the forest for the trees.
"The human mind is not, like ChatGPT and its ilk, a lumbering statistical engine for pattern matching, gorging on hundreds of terabytes of data and extrapolating the most likely conversational response"
We don't know that! It very well could be. Think of all the data that has entered all your senses in your entire lifetime. More than goes into ChatGPT, I'll tell you that. Plus, you synthesize information by being corporeal so you have a tight feedback loop. LLMs could well be a foundational part of AI technology as well as an accurate analog for some of the brain's behavior.
A small part of the point, but bringing up this "hardcoded" response of it not offering political opinions as any kind of evidence of its theoretical capability is beyond silly.
"The human mind is not, like ChatGPT and its ilk, a lumbering statistical engine for pattern matching, gorging on hundreds of terabytes of data and extrapolating the most likely conversational response"
We don't know that! It very well could be. Think of all the data that has entered all your senses in your entire lifetime. More than goes into ChatGPT, I'll tell you that. Plus, you synthesize information by being corporeal so you have a tight feedback loop. LLMs could well be a foundational part of AI technology as well as an accurate analog for some of the brain's behavior.
A small part of the point, but bringing up this "hardcoded" response of it not offering political opinions as any kind of evidence of its theoretical capability is beyond silly.