Do new AI tools like ChatGPT actually understand language as well as humans?
It turns out that even the inventors of these new large-scale language models are debating that very question. And if this technology can reach the point of achieving what is known as an artificial language, the answer will have a profound impact on all aspects of education and society. General intelligence, or AGI.
A new book by one of these AI pioneers delves into the origins of ChatGPT and the intersection of research into how the brain works and building new large-scale language models for AI. It is called “The future of ChatGPT and AI,The author is Terrence Sejnowski, a professor of biology at the University of California, San Diego, where he is co-director of the Institute for Neural Computation and the NSF Center for Temporal Dynamics Learning. He is also the Francis Crick Professor at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies.
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Seinowski started out as a physicist studying the origins of black holes, but early in his career he realized that it would be decades before new instruments were built that could adequately measure the kind of gravitational waves he was studying. He said he realized that. So he switched to neuroscience, hoping to “pop the hood” of the human brain to better understand how it works.
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