Do we value artificial intelligence little or too much?
For now, artificial intelligence (AI) is undoubtedly less intelligent than those who sell it to us say.
Do you think it’s not worth what it already costs?
To begin with, it does not provide reliable information. If I typed my name, for example, again now in ChatGPT, I would freak out again. The other day, for example, he said that I had a pet… a chicken!
You will know.
AI today tends to often make up data by extracting and cross-referencing it by mistake: do you think you can trust AI if it recommends a medicine?… Don’t do it!
And don’t you believe that AI learns?
The answer is no. As it is proposed today, it neither learns nor will learn.
Why do other experts insist that it does learn every time it is used?
I don’t think so, because being intelligent is not about accumulating more and more data, as I already said in The Algebraic Mind. For AI to be truly intelligent, it needs more genuine innovation than simply giving more capacity to current models.
Is artificial intelligence dangerous?
The one we have now is dangerously stupid, because what it does progress is in verisimilitude, as reported by News-Guard, which fights against misinformation on the networks and warns that ChatGPT 4 is as wrong as 3.5, but it is more fearsome because it is credible. in their mistakes.
What errors?
The other day, for example, ChatGPT was amazed: it gave impossible names to replace McCarthy as speaker of the US House of Representatives, like Liz Cheney… who isn’t even running!
Isn’t ChatGPT a threat to Google by replacing it as a search engine?
Again, AI is still dumb and that’s the danger. Because what should worry Google and Microsoft is not that you do internet searches better than them…
Isn’t ChatGTP replacing them?
No! The really worrying thing is that ChatGPT fills the internet with errors and these hallucinations and ends up making any search unreliable to the point that people stop using them.
And that everything ends up being a lie?
This is what is called eco chamber effect: the autophagy of AI and the great threat for search engines is that they end up intoxicated with its lies. And, in the end, there is no way to know what is true or false when you search for something on the internet.
Is ChatGPT doing good business?
Satya Nadella, the CEO of Microsoft, acknowledged before a jury a few days ago that, after the surprise effect of the first weeks of ChatGPT, Google was not stopped, but rather the bubble was deflating without its Bing gaining market share.
So what is AI for?
You still can’t drive autonomous cars… or only in San Francisco on some streets and at some hours.
And to search for restaurants, hotels, plan vacations and visits, schedule…?
That’s what Google Duplex wanted to do a few years ago…
I don’t remember, honestly.
Because it wasn’t useful and we all forgot about it. What if in the end all this noise about AI ends up only serving to make you book a restaurant?
Isn’t it at least useful for me to do your school work?
It depends on the teacher’s requirements.
And will that money that is being paid in the stock market for the future of AI be lost?
We’ll see: maybe there’s a $5 billion-a-year market for AI; but not the 100,000 that is bet today. For them to be worth it, a disruptive innovation would have to be achieved that would make it reliable and efficient. And no one knows, neither do I, if it will happen in the end.
Should I invest in chips or not?
Remember that before the internet was profitable there was a dotcom bubble and millions of people went bankrupt.
Will there be a China-US chip war?
There already is and it is real. What is not so real is the assumption on which it is based that whoever manufactures the most powerful chips for AI will conquer space and its resources to dominate the Earth.
Won’t it give us even an optimistic note?
AI has the potential to change the world in ways we can’t even imagine: understanding the brain, stopping global warming, curing diseases or caring for the elderly with almost human robots…
Thanks for encouraging us.
But I must add that along this path AI can destroy democracy and cause technological and scientific regression. And progress or regression depends on the decisions we make now.