The Borgesian revelation of understanding has not and will not - and, we submit, cannot - occur if machine learning programs like ChatGPT continue to dominate the field of A.I. That day may come, but its dawn is not yet breaking, contrary to what can be read in hyperbolic headlines and reckoned by injudicious investments. These programs have been hailed as the first glimmers on the horizon of artificial general intelligence - that long-prophesied moment when mechanical minds surpass human brains not only quantitatively in terms of processing speed and memory size but also qualitatively in terms of intellectual insight, artistic creativity and every other distinctively human faculty. Roughly speaking, they take huge amounts of data, search for patterns in it and become increasingly proficient at generating statistically probable outputs - such as seemingly humanlike language and thought. OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Bard and Microsoft’s Sydney are marvels of machine learning. machine learning - will degrade our science and debase our ethics by incorporating into our technology a fundamentally flawed conception of language and knowledge. Concern because we fear that the most popular and fashionable strain of A.I. Optimism because intelligence is the means by which we solve problems. Today our supposedly revolutionary advancements in artificial intelligence are indeed cause for both concern and optimism. Jorge Luis Borges once wrote that to live in a time of great peril and promise is to experience both tragedy and comedy, with “the imminence of a revelation” in understanding ourselves and the world.
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