The puzzle of the thinking machine
Sparks in the silicon
World views on mechanical souls
The day the machine wakes up
007skaty Google engineer Blake Lemoine believed his artificial intelligence chatbot was alive.
007skaty Modern systems like GPT-4 act as stochastic parrots, predicting the next likely word from databases to mimic a thinking mind
What is the primary mathematical task that large language models are trained to perform?
007skaty Modern artificial intelligence adjusts millions of virtual connections to mimic human brain synapses.
In which decade did Warren McCulloch and Walter Pitts design the first mathematical neural network?
What biological structure in the human brain inspires the connections in artificial neural networks?
AI hallucination: Language models can "hallucinate" false facts with total confidence, proving they don't actually know what truth is.
007skaty Decode the AI's responses to learn why a Google engineer believed it was sentient.
Which Google AI system did engineer Blake Lemoine claim had become sentient in 2022?
What specific fear did the LaMDA chatbot express to Blake Lemoine during their conversations?
007skaty Large artificial intelligence models develop mysterious abilities that scientists cannot explain
007skaty AI Emergent Behaviors
When we scale the network past a certain line, Brand new skills awaken that we didn't design.
Which university led a prominent 2023 study analyzing whether AI emergent abilities are real or statistical illusions?