Great post! Love the disclaimer too. I spoke of the need to avoid anthropomorphism in an event yesterday and had that moment when for whatever reason you just can't pronounce a word!
I have used Claude.ai and Venice.ai a bit. What I noticed after a while was their apparent lack of self-awareness. They did not evaluate their answers for inconsistencies or realize that they were heading off on wild goose chases. Such self awareness and self reflection are necessary prerequisites for real intelligence.
As for the brain as a computer, that never held water for me. I'm into practical metaphysics and my view is that mind is non-physical in nature and the brain is largely a transducer/interface between it and the body. Such things are currently impossible to prove to anyone other than to one's self via direct experience.
There are new theories of brain that include quantum entanglement, so I am just waiting for tech company's to say that they are merging quantum computing with AI to achieve human level intelligence. They're like ants trying to make fire.
Just a thought: If there really was a big bang from a single point, wouldn't everything be quantum entangled? IDK the math or theoretical details at all.
The SOP is to maximize hype to get more funding/customers while hoping that the reality is good enough to sustain things until a good profit can be extracted.
The way how the industry is "humanizing" tech is at astonishly irritating levels now. What I also see is the "Uncanny Valley" effect where it starts to creep out people and they take their distance... which... I think... is actually a good thing in a weird way?
As you said, this humanification of tech has to do with big-tech making it all easier and far too accessible/acceptable which translates in volumes of cash to support their pipe-dreams and keep on going with dumping their sh!tty products on to the market. Oh... I might have said that up loud :-).
Yes it's odd that we kind of want to believe these machines have personalities but then the uncanny factor puts us off. It's almost like psychological warning system.
Great post! Love the disclaimer too. I spoke of the need to avoid anthropomorphism in an event yesterday and had that moment when for whatever reason you just can't pronounce a word!
It's a very awkward word to say out loud!
I have used Claude.ai and Venice.ai a bit. What I noticed after a while was their apparent lack of self-awareness. They did not evaluate their answers for inconsistencies or realize that they were heading off on wild goose chases. Such self awareness and self reflection are necessary prerequisites for real intelligence.
As for the brain as a computer, that never held water for me. I'm into practical metaphysics and my view is that mind is non-physical in nature and the brain is largely a transducer/interface between it and the body. Such things are currently impossible to prove to anyone other than to one's self via direct experience.
There are new theories of brain that include quantum entanglement, so I am just waiting for tech company's to say that they are merging quantum computing with AI to achieve human level intelligence. They're like ants trying to make fire.
Already done: fire ants LOL.
Just a thought: If there really was a big bang from a single point, wouldn't everything be quantum entangled? IDK the math or theoretical details at all.
The SOP is to maximize hype to get more funding/customers while hoping that the reality is good enough to sustain things until a good profit can be extracted.
Pay no attention to the LLM behind the curtain!
Great piece!
The way how the industry is "humanizing" tech is at astonishly irritating levels now. What I also see is the "Uncanny Valley" effect where it starts to creep out people and they take their distance... which... I think... is actually a good thing in a weird way?
As you said, this humanification of tech has to do with big-tech making it all easier and far too accessible/acceptable which translates in volumes of cash to support their pipe-dreams and keep on going with dumping their sh!tty products on to the market. Oh... I might have said that up loud :-).
Yes it's odd that we kind of want to believe these machines have personalities but then the uncanny factor puts us off. It's almost like psychological warning system.