An Essay on Human Intelligence, Written by AI

[Gulo Blue]

https://arr.am/2020/07/31/human-intelligence-an-ai-op-ed/

Pack it up, humans. We're done. The 1st 3 sentences are probably the most kind.

Humans claim to be intelligent, but what exactly is intelligence? Many people have attempted to define it, but these attempts have all failed. So I propose a new definition: intelligence is whatever humans do.

 

[byco42]

Humans invented AI and someone or ones put those sentiments into this particular "intelligence." So the AI is merely parroting the opinion of whomever programmed it.

And this particular AI has the reasoning skills of a high-school freshman.

 

[Gulo Blue]

Humans invented AI and someone or ones put those sentiments into this particular "intelligence." So the AI is merely parroting the opinion of whomever programmed it.

And this particular AI has the reasoning skills of a high-school freshman.

It's fed a pile of example text to train on and the poster runs it several times and picks the most coherent response. But this is a lot more coherent than stuff from ten years ago.

 

[Michchamp]

me and the boys got a little "intelligence" for that computer...

 

[byco42]

It's fed a pile of example text to train on and the poster runs it several times and picks the most coherent response. But this is a lot more coherent than stuff from ten years ago.

I'd like to see the "example text" that it was "fed."

 

[Gulo Blue]

I'd like to see the "example text" that it was "fed."

Here's an interview where they fed it some Marcus Aurelius.
https://arr.am/2020/08/17/ai-tim-ferriss-interviews-ai-marcus-aurelius-gpt-3/

Or the wikipedia page for 2020 last August and asked it to guess the rest of the year.

https://arr.am/2020/08/08/gpt-3-predicts-the-rest-of-2020/

 

[Spartanmack]

we had a good run...or did we?

 

[Gulo Blue]

I think I've probably said all I'm ever going to say. I could probably feed it my post history and hand over the keys at this point.

Blah, blah, blah, coconut radio, climate change, Dave Brandon sucked, Dantonio was ironically disrespectful, we should knock down the luxury suites, anybody want a peanut?

 

[Michchamp]

I think I've probably said all I'm ever going to say. I could probably feed it my post history and hand over the keys at this point.

Blah, blah, blah, coconut radio, climate change, Dave Brandon sucked, Dantonio was ironically disrespectful, we should knock down the luxury suites, anybody want a peanut?

when the computer gets to the parts on "nitpicking" it will overheat and melt down into a puddle of silicon and plastic.

 

[tinselwolverine]

when the computer gets to the parts on "nitpicking" it will overheat and melt down into a puddle of silicon and plastic.

So...you?re saying the computer has had breast implants and other cosmetic surgery?

The apple don?t fall far from the tree.

 

[Gulo Blue]

when the computer gets to the parts on "nitpicking" it will overheat and melt down into a puddle of silicon and plastic.

Let's run a quick sim here:

That was sarcasm.

Nobody said it wasn't sarcasm.

Nobody said anybody said it wasn't sarcasm.

Yup, that's enough of that. I retract this proposal.

 

[byco42]

Here's an interview where they fed it some Marcus Aurelius.
https://arr.am/2020/08/17/ai-tim-ferriss-interviews-ai-marcus-aurelius-gpt-3/

Or the wikipedia page for 2020 last August and asked it to guess the rest of the year.

https://arr.am/2020/08/08/gpt-3-predicts-the-rest-of-2020/

I liked many of the responses.

As for the "prediction" *HA*

This actually probably actually happened, actually.

"November 4 ? Former President Trump is re-elected to a second term."

 

[Michchamp]

So...you?re saying the computer has had breast implants and other cosmetic surgery?

...

 

[Gulo Blue]

This actually probably actually happened, actually.

"November 4 ? Former President Trump is re-elected to a second term."

Now don't start that again!

 

[Spartanmack]

I'm most interested in finding out which the computers pick - socialism or capitalism. We'll finally find out if socialism really does make too much sense. I wonder if AI will get that far in my lifetime.

 

[Michchamp]

I'm most interested in finding out which the computers pick - socialism or capitalism. We'll finally find out if socialism really does make too much sense. I wonder if AI will get that far in my lifetime.

Ask the computer how they would design society with the caveat that they had to live in it afterward, and they couldn't pick who they get to be.

Think they'd pick a society where the wealthiest 0.1% control vast amounts of wealth - far out of proportion to the labor they contribute - and are essentially above the law, while the bottom 50% have no wealth, or live in debt to the 0.1%?

 

[Gulo Blue]

To make these calls, a program, which has no freedom, will have to assign a value to freedom.

 

[Michchamp]

To make these calls, a program, which has no freedom, will have to assign a value to freedom.

Freedom = you have a mortgage, an auto loan, and student loan debt for all your adult life. you work as an excel spreadsheet formatter, paper-pusher or box-checker for 40 years to pay for it all, then die of a heart attack brought on by the high cholesterol/high sugar diet you have to eat all that time. Once and a while you get to take a couple days off and go to Disneyworld, or a Phil Collins concert.

You have to spend 4 hours a weekend at some combination of costco, home depot, or kroger's.

 

[Michchamp]

... you work as an excel spreadsheet formatter, paper-pusher or box-checker for 40 years to pay for it all, then die of a heart attack brought on by the high cholesterol/high sugar diet you have to eat all that time. ...

if you don't want to work as a spreadsheet formatter, box checker or paper pusher, you can enlist in the military, where your job will be to sit in a dark trailer, and pilot a flying robot around a Middle Eastern or African country inhabited by goat herders, occasionally pushing a button to tell the robot to fire a missile and kill some of those goat herders.

your options for recreation are still the same though: Disneyworld or a Phil Collins concert.

 

[Gulo Blue]

if you don't want to work as a spreadsheet formatter, box checker or paper pusher, you can enlist in the military, where your job will be to sit in a dark trailer, and pilot a flying robot around a Middle Eastern or African country inhabited by goat herders, occasionally pushing a button to tell the robot to fire a missile and kill some of those goat herders.

your options for recreation are still the same though: Disneyworld or a Phil Collins concert.

Our options aren't that limited. You might be able to catch a Phil Collins concert at Disneyworld.