My buddy #SnoopDog came to me the other day for some #investment advice ;-). Just another day. For background you can search up: “Snoop Dog on #ARSTechnica”
On that #California theme … I am thinking, and I quote the #MammasAndPappas (Search it up, as the kids say):
“All the leaves 🍁 are brown, and the sky is gray …California dreamin’ On such a winter’s day”
Shall I invest? When the #AIAutumn comes Snoop and others may cry “How could this happen? Well to quote another California resident – the great #JonnyRotten. “#EverFeelLikeYouVeBeenCheated?”.
Just because #ChatGPT#GenerativeAI looks like an #Answer, it smells like an #answer, doesn’t mean it always is an #answer – you can quote #JabeOnAI
Look at it this way #ML is #FunctionOptimisation. You have #RepresentationInthen the most probable #RepresentationOut is given as a response, based on function optimisation. I will post more on the nuts and bolts of this approach; suffice to say there is within this approach: #NoModelOfTheWorld; #NoReasoning; #NoComprehension. No more conscious than my #toaster.
Let me share a bit of history. For a criticism of the general approach behind #LLMs call it #ArtificialNeuralNetworks (for want of a better description) going back to the early days of #connectionism and #ParrrallelDistributedProcessing or #PDP you can ‘search up’ #ZenonPylyshyn in his 1988 publication with #JerryFodor, where he describes #PDP as #OldWineInNewBottles. If this was the critique back in the 1980s just think how this should look in 2023 as this is all served up as #ShinyAndNew!
For those with a longer memory … I remember my professor #MaggieBodenspeaking in 1989 about how connectionism’s roots go back to the 1740s (yes you are reading that right 1740s). You can ‘search up’ the philosopher #DavidHartley and his view that thinking is grounded in #associativemechanisms in the brain – the #Associationist school of Psychology.
I will write a more detailed account about the history of #ML and a #101 way to think about it – soon. But my mantra here is that #ML or #LLMs or #GPT are all fundamentally #FunctionOptimisation. With a #WellTroddenPath of understanding their limitations. Don’t get carried away with the #hype.
#AIApocalypse is a form of #PR, #Hucksters, #CardSharps, #SnakeOilSalesmen or Women. #AGI is on its way? My a*se!
#Copilots are making #MediocreEasy, and all good if you don’t mind being wrong half the time or the occasional #CatastrophicError.
Place your bets; spin the wheel; repent at leisure!
Don’t get me wrong, function optimisation is impressive, and it can get you into heaps of trouble.
But on this Spring Evening in London Town, I can feel the wind blow, and what is that scent in the air? Can it be #Autumn already? #TrickOrTreat, get the #JackOLanterns out!
#AISpring#AISummer#AIAutumn#AIWinter#AIHype
… a little later I will be posting a version of this without the hashtags labelled as JabeOnAiDiluted, as a request – you know who you are!