DWQA QuestionsCategory: Problems in SocietyWhen people think of AI, most think about chatbots like ChatGPT and Grok. These technologies are based on a software architecture called neural networks. Another name for the way these chatbots are put together is called LLMs or large language models. A large language model is really just a very sophisticated pattern matcher, and the shortcut used to match patterns is statistical probability. At its very foundation it makes large amounts (hundreds, thousands, millions or more) of microscopic decisions based on what statistically is more or less probable in terms of what comes before or after a word. Is it more probable the word “and” follows the word “this,” or more probable it follows the word “that?” So any response from a question to ChatGPT or Grok is the result of deep statistical analysis and pattern matching with no actual intelligence involved. What is Creator’s perspective?
Nicola Staff asked 3 weeks ago
Here again, you have nicely cut to the chase to focus in on the fundamental misunderstanding of what AI truly represents and what it is working with. To have such huge pattern matching through countless pairings and queries about probabilities going word by word gets back to the problem of this being, in the end, a brute force operation because you are not dealing with intelligence that stems from divine consciousness, but a simulation that creates a product that resembles what a human might do. In no way is it being created with humanlike means but instead a technological artifice, even though an impressive one in terms of the size and scope of what it takes to simulate creation of human-based descriptions and information content. One of the striking truths here about AI and its resemblance to human thought and creativity is that human knowledge is still at a quite primitive stage. That as well is due to being hindered for thousands of years by the extraterrestrial cabal of overseers truly running the world from behind the scenes and limiting human progress through corruption of human institutions, including science as well as institutions of education and learning, to hobble them and keep them in a primitive mode. So the irony here is that artificial intelligence is being promoted as increasingly akin to human intelligence when it is based on a body of information used for pattern matching that is nowhere near understanding what human intelligence truly is, its inner workings, what it is comprised of, and how it functions. Your channel has learned years ago now that the very workings of the mind are not truly understood by science and the idea of consciousness has moved little beyond the term itself, as a conception. The nuts and bolts, the inner workings of the brain and what happens in creation of thought, the interaction with memory, and so forth, are still a mystery and are working intuitively in all human beings, not in ways learned from scratch and followed with a true understanding of how one generates a thought, applies prior knowledge in creating a follow-on thought, and builds an argument or a train of logical thinking to get from A to B in solving a problem or guiding a process. The very idea of the human brain consisting of a network of connections is a crude conjecture based on humans looking at technology and borrowing that as an analogy to explain something far more complex, elegant, and beyond human understanding than truly appreciated. The brain is not comprised of neural nets but is much more fluid and flexible than something fixed, like the hardwiring in an electronic circuit or even the more adaptable and flexible workings of computer programs that provide a reliable, reproducible chain of events. There really is no direct connection or functional similarity between consciousness and its workings and what the AI technologies are doing and are based on. So that is a long discussion beyond the ability of humans to understand at this point, except to point out that when the authors of these two books about AI point to the limitations, flaws in conceptual understanding, and wholesale inadequacy to achieve what is promised, at least the way they are going about it, they know what they are talking about because they see deeply enough into the inner workings of AI and can appreciate how far removed that is from human capability and creative thinking. Although they themselves do not fully understand the workings of human consciousness, they can appreciate that AI is not discovering anything new about consciousness, only about the technology of simulating human thought.