Friday, March 24, 2023

Maybe we'll AI guess our way in the secret of life, the universe, and everything

I must admit, some examples I see of ChatGPT generated material seem surprisingly good, and I notice that someone asked it to (I presume - I can't see the prompt) come up with a dark matter theory, and this is the result:

Now, I'm pretty sure that this is rubbish, and people have pointed out that the AI is good at inventing stuff to fill in gaps in its knowledge.

But - it would be kind of funny if, in future, one of these AI's comes up with a theory which someone bothers to check, and it turns out to be correct.

I wonder if it currently thinks "42" is the answer to the big question in the title...
 

Update:   Sure seems quite a few researchers are getting nervous over the question of how we're even going to tell if true, self conscious AI has been reached:  

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1 comment:

  1. John2:56 pm

    I don't know why people think ChatGPT is indicative of the future of AI. Far from it. In areas of my interest machine learning is proving to be increasingly valuable in a number of ways. As long as AI is language dependent instead of being numerically\mathematically dependent it won't amount to a hill of beans.

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