Melanie MitchellOne of my new years resolutions is to blog (from time to time) about interesting work in AI. I'm trying out Substack for this. My first post is a perspective on recent paper by Webb et al., "Emergent Analogical Reasoning in Large Language Models".
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I am not current with AI, but I am /dramatically/ interested in machine intelligence. I rely a great deal on my intuition, which has told me that GPT is (fatally) off-base, did you see my remark gone by here a day or two ago. One does not MODEL things as (I presume that) it does and expect anything useful from it - the clumsy results I've seen so far, I mocked it as monkeys trying to replicate Shakespeare.
It's interesting, but intuition says it's not the path to the goal.
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It may be /a tool/ on the way to the goal, but will never per se arrive on its own.
(Having said that:)
A first application for GPT would be to analyze search engine patterns to 'comprehend' distinctions people make as to what they're searching for, to narrow the results down properly.
Otherwise, as I've seen it so far, it's just a toy that is nowhere close to "almost but not quite." You have STUFF but no CONNECTIONS. "this defines as that" doesn't DO anything.
{laughs}
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now on to read your article.
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See my pro-AI short story at https://shitnobricks.com/?p=105
I wrote it originally in response to sci-fi always assuming AI would be evil. I claim it could not be, if we've taught it enough.