I said on Mastodon today that "The challenge over time, I think, will be to prove that there is something *different* about human reasoning over-and-above what GPT-4 and successors are doing. This challenge will get more and more difficult over time." This is an example of what I mean. " When I say AI doesn't really understand, I mean more, however. It's syntactically manipulating to generate semantics, but semantics is still largely cognitive. Yet as humans, we're affective (personality) and conative (motivation) as well. In short, we're emotional (not purely rational). Context matters." Well I agree we are these things - the question is whether there's any reason in principle why a computer couldn't be. Image: Buddy, the emotional robot.
Today: 1 Total: 85 [Direct link] [Share]
