The Google engineer says he “felt the ground shift” after exchanges with the latest generation of neural net-based language models. In a guest essay earlier this year, he argued that a “new era” of AI is coming
Since this article, by a Google vice-president, was published an engineer at the company, Blake Lemoine, has reportedly been placed on leave after claiming in an interview with theI joined Google Research to work on artificial intelligence . Following decades of slow progress, neural networks were developing at speed.
ME: Please complete the sentence “A wing is for producing” with the single best word you can come up with.But are these just word games? How could an “artificial cerebral cortex” be said to understand what a flower is, if its entire universe consists only of disembodied language? Keep in mind that by the time our brain receives sensory input, whether from sight, sound, touch or anything else, it has been encoded in the activations of neurons.
Over the past 2m years the human lineage has undergone an “intelligence explosion”, marked by a rapidly growing skull and increasingly sophisticated tool use, language and culture. According to the social brain hypothesis, advanced by Robin Dunbar, an anthropologist, in the late 1980s, this did not emerge from the intellectual demands of survival in an inhospitable world. After all, plenty of other animals did fine with small brains.
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