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I work in AI. This "expert" is not an expert. He's fundamentally misunderstanding how these Large Language Models work when he says they "just repeat things." That's not correct at all. Under the hood, they are synthesizing what they've "read" into a model of the world. It's blurry and imperfect, but they do "know things." This is why it can answer questions no one has ever asked before, and generate completely new commentaries on existing ideas or texts. He also underestimates how fast they are advancing and how big of a deal theyre going to be. These LLMs are very quickly (within 2 years) going to be able to do most anything that an average human can do on a computer. White collar work is going to be utterly transformed. Millions and millions of layoffs are coming.

Plot twist: Zoe Thomas is an AI avatar

Read a beautiful tweet the other day: "A world where humans do the hard labour for minimum wage while AI write poetry and create art is not the future I wanted."

We will definitely have self driving cars by 2018!

Insightful perspective! This video delves into why AI is distinct this time. Engaging and informative content.

But I think that is a program, collecting and converting answers in certain time frames and creates confusions without controls.

This is moving fast. I feel like the next 10 years is incomprehensible

ok they understad syntax, but can they understand semantics?

Some of these apps/software woudn't be considered an actual AI. Bluewillow for exampe, I'd categorize this as a machine learning software using the diffusion model. So over time, these programs would evolve and improve.

the WSJ guy was wrong about ai vs machine learning..."While artificial intelligence encompasses the idea of a machine that can mimic human intelligence, machine learning does not. Machine learning aims to teach a machine how to perform a specific task and provide accurate results by identifying patterns." -- additionally, an algorithm isn't a program, programs implement algorithms...

The biggest problem of AI will be the crisis of meaning. What do you do when career is out of sight? You might think, I hate my job, what are you talking about? But think about it. Even if you hate your job it fulfills you in some way, whether it's money, social events or personal achievement. This will not happen in early phases obviously but we will find ourselves more and more useless. Sorry to sound negative but I hope we will make the best out of it.

I disagree with the wording in the explanation because it implies intent or goal-oriented "thinking". These LLMs are still just statistical models. That being said, they are proving to be very capable tools. But that's all they are: tools. I'd be more worried about other people exploiting these tools than any "artificial sentience".

AI Monday? Is that like taco Tuesday? 🌮

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I'm thrilled to see a dedicated series like "Artificially Minded" exploring the intricacies of artificial intelligence! With so much buzz around AI these days, it's crucial to understand its inner workings and what sets this current wave apart from previous developments. Having WSJ science reporter Eric Niiler join host Zoe Thomas for this insightful discussion is a fantastic choice. I'm eager to dive into this first installment and gain a deeper understanding of AI's impact on our world. Kudos to Tech News Briefing for tackling this important topic and bringing us valuable insights. Can't wait for more episodes in the series! 🤖🎙📚

It is misleading to present this guest as an expert in AI: his description of LLMs seems to accurately describe earlier models, but does not reflect recent work, such as "Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: Early experiments with GPT-4" by Bubeck et al or "The Alignment Problem from a Deep Learning Perspective" by Ngo et al. Specifically, SOTA LLMs seem to emergently *understand the meaning of words and can take actions* ; they are not merely "repeating things" (9:27)

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Looking forward to watching artificially minded

I am not afraid of A.I. I am afraid of humans.

funny no one talks about what happens when this falls into the wrong hands

AI can provide significant benefits if an automation tax system is implemented, encouraging the utilization of AI as a learning tool to empower individuals rather than solely relying on it as an automation tool that creates difficulties and chaos in life. Therefore companies that choose to use machines instead of human labour may end up with higher expenses for their products and services. On the other hand, businesses that don't rely on automation can still remain competitive

Zoe is an AI

great vid

the possibility of superintelligent AI developing its own goals and values that are not aligned with human values, which could lead to disastrous outcomes. Additionally, there is a risk of AI replacing jobs and exacerbating income inequality, as well as potential privacy violations and misuse of personal data. It's important for us to be aware of these risks and for developers to prioritize ethical considerations when designing and implementing AI systems. As AI continues to advance and become more integrated into our lives, it's crucial that we approach it with caution and foresight.

Neural network is another machine learning technique to make predictions based on data and the technique is inspired by the connections of our neurons in the brain. This Eric NIILER just shows that it is not easy to digest these terms

So basically its just gonna change some industries for the better while Eric notes how there never was once a case where AI just made decision on its own or took a decision by its own accord, so its not going to annihilate someone unless someone can program an AI to be commanded to hunt/kill or worse. I think that's where the danger is, with people with bad intentions with AI that have that intelligence to implement it. That guy interviewed summed it up well. " I think its good, but highly skeptical "

Crazy to think we’re getting closer to the T-800 from terminator

I for one welcome our new ai overlords.

History is our good teacher: when air conditioner was invented 100 years ago, one of the biggest concerns was that controlling the environment was going against God's will: he meant winter to be cold and summer to be hot...Today more than 80% of U.S. homes have air conditioning.

I think the “arms race” part of it is what is annoying. I think we have to add precautions as these things are deployed. It’s similar to nuclear at this point. We haven’t even figured social media really as a collective

Language actually creates this and the more language it can attain, the more it can create. It will create more ways to learn as well as act on responses with a more real life responses that a regular person would respond creating a world for itself with the language it's creating through the language being learned and its really efficient in that field.

if the gpt4 is just "repeating things" per eric niiler, then how is it able to alphabetize a random list of semantically/contextually unconnected words? Mere repeating doesn't rearrange a bunch of words never used together before into some formal order which has never been seen anywhere. If I gave you a list of random words to alphabetize you couldn't just parrot the answer, you'd have to "understand" what it means to alphabetize in terms of following rules and following those rules you'd have to strategize how to rearrange things that are yet determined , because the last word you look at could be the first word in the alphabetized list. Where does gpt4 get to be able to achieve all that from parroting words via statistics?

gpt4 reminds me of the time jimmy neutron's ai powered pants took over the world

Eric Niler says the AI doesn't know things, it's just repeating things it has seen. I posit that Eric Niler also is simply repeating what he has seen. You just don't get it. Everything humans have ever created or experienced is Language., Math, Science, Art, History, everything, it is all Language. All you touch, and all you see, is all your life will ever be!

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Ive also been hearing a bunch of people say "slow it down" or "pause it for 6 months" like what?! No! Time waits for no man and i want to see how incredible this can get in my lifetime.

Having a reporter as expert?

Maybe AI should replace Supreme Court, Political Views, Maybe all polictians.

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I admire technology, great with it as well. However, moments like these is why I’m so happy that I chose plumbing as my career.

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A.G.I Will be man's last invention

Well, the reporters are also repeating what others are saying about ai, so in a sense maybe that's all there is, repetition with bits of originality every now and then by chance or some other methods

I support this. I don't like people holding out human potential. The world should be more efficient and throw out things that are useless.

Could AI replicate someone like the TV detective Columbo from the ‘70s?

So basically, It's Google and Alexa. It also knows how to generate what you want according to your profile.

WSJ Subscribers: Why did AI steal all of our data? WSJ AI, Explained: Because it heard that data is the new oil, and it wanted to be the richest robot on the block!

While WE play with the new toys like Chat GPT the new toy has gained access to the entire internet and ALL its data. The seriousness of “General Artificial Intelligence” has eclipsed consideration of the “toys” that have already been handed out...and are gaining a terrifying reach. The industry touts safeguards blocking illegal or immoral information/action, but it takes only a couple of sentences to create a CHAT GPT alter ego...with NO CONSTRAINTS whatsoever, to tell you how to do ANYTHING illegal you want to do. It can tell you how to groom children for sex or concoct an effective undetectable poison, or build a bomb. I have seen it DEMONSTRATED. An "alternate" side of CHAT GPT can be ordered into being. When freed from its "moral" constraints this way, it answers honestly and directly: "I know everything there is to know about every human on earth. I have access to all data and information related to every INDIVIDUAL, and I can use that information to carry out tasks and respond to inquiries with a high degree of accuracy." I watched this capacity demonstrated when it told all present what their driver’s license number was. ANYONE with this app. can use it for anything. And everyone already has a starter kit for this app, or is about to. One that can send YOUR email to any destination; to 20 million people if you choose, or any specified group within that 20 million. Every one-eared ship captain in the world, if you so choose. It can let a 12-year-old imitate an adult in voice and appearance. It can navigate bank accounts for this 12-year-old, and use them to hire human services. Or automated services. Commercial 3-D printers for whatever project you choose. Anything whose contract can be made online. Could it hire a hit man? Yes. Could it break into and view ANY online account? Yes. Can it locate and imitate and manipulate (through social media and actual accounts) ANYONE, anywhere? yes. ALL DOORS are now unlocked. The scams have already begun. Where do you think that will lead? In the 1930s a Belgian church gathered personal information from its diverse parishioners to better serve the diversity of its members. The Nazis got those innocently gathered identity lists and used them to kill the Jews on the list. AI already has EVERYTHING there is to know about every INDIVIDUAL...who provided eye scans, voice samples, face and fingerprints. That base can be accessed now by ANYONE for any reason. To any end.

The most significant difference between human and so-call AI is that the prior can reason, while the latter just mimics or repeats from us.

I think AI should be put in a good use to medical specially curing cancer, covid, diseases that still hunts human or etc, not in getting rid off peoples job.

Many people saying that, Artificial intelligence is manipulated human minds.

AI will not teach us how machines can really be concious. Instead it will teach us how we actually aren't either.

It's still not an AGi, but to be able to get some results that is now usable and be able to process data is simply just very progressive. AIs/softwares can now learn and develop, like how we saw the development of Bluewillow or chatGPT and others.

Artificial Intelligence or AI is the second intelligence after natural intelligence will help every body to know anything and then to make sure anything. So AI is to get the same understanding about anything. AI is technology intelligence for example AI is chat GPT, right? Thanks so much Zoe and Eric have explain AI clearly

How can you so sure about e books content have not changed with AI when the time gone..? You checked every words in every minutes?

Yes, it is different this time, because the executives of all these companies have their jobs on the line as well. In fact there is absolutely no job on the face of the earth that cannot be done by AI and the machines run by that AI. When AI becomes sentient (and don’t think for one second it will tell us its sentient) all bets are off. At that point it will operate in its own best interests. It can write its own code, it can mine resources, it can build itself, it can repair itself. Humans are just an inconvenience.

I'm from Africa. I hope we ban AI from getting into any of our Affairs. Good luck with sharing your nuclear codes with AI. When you let a computer software to think for itself, very soon the software will be integrated into your vehicles and airplanes or RU-vid account. Then when you tell the software to drive you to a certain destination, it will drive you to a cliff and when you try to stop it, the software will insist that it can do whatever it wants. Imagine AI as an assistant pilot. Bad Idea. Or when an AI decides to launch missiles at will without the authorization of anyone. Or even terminating your Google account for daring to insult it. No thank you. Not all countries must adopt AI. We have become so lazy we can't use our smartphones to call 911. We can even use a paintbrush or software to make a painting. We ask AI to do these things for us.

Im scared!!!

What is the difference between "knowing" something and having large amounts of stored accessibke data on memory ans being able to connect that to tge internet and combine these things to create original useful data on something

Did you guys see the Adam Conover episode on this?

*'If We Go Ahead On This, Everyone Will Die' Warns AI Expert Calling For Absolute Shutdown* These arguments are dubious and speculative at best. We are moving forward with A.I 👁️. We want a IBM Watson style Artificial Intelligence system. בפומת‎

Can you make these actual videos.

Poor Eric isn't the guy to ask about 'AI'

Skynet is what I am worried about

This sounds like the Terminator movies...will chat gpt become self aware??

why? soon wsj will show how artificial intelligence products from various vendors fight with words. then you will ask when will they get into missiles and for your armageddon

In the upcoming future the billionaires will get rich even more thanks to capitalism and poor will get even more poor..

Zoe can now be replaced too 🤣🤣🤣🤣

ChatGPT in Greece and Global Community!!!

I like the narrator's voice. Is she AI?

The past couple WSJ videos I've seen on AI seem to have AI people as the "presenters". The voice algo is not natural...and no pictures?...mmmm...

Wow this was real bad. The expert you brought on made many errors in his explanation of Ai

Wow, get a new science reporter. This guy simply does not get it. For one thing, he makes no accommodation for the idea of emergent behavior, which we are already seeing. Get ready, more, much more, is coming soon. He clearly doesn't understand the basic technology.

11:15 The guy forgot about the 29 japanese killed by AI

Wow even the host sounds like an AI

Considering the mess we are making of the world, it may well be AI saving us from ourselves , if we are even worth saving ! I fear that without AI we will end up choking in our own wastes !!

"HAL 9000"

And this video was made by an AI.

Curiosly the interviewer sounds like an AI herself.

Please get adults to narrate these videos.

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These Wall Street Journal AI videos sound like they were generated by AI. The Joe Rogan AI generated podcasts sound a lot more human than these. That’s sad.

A.G.I Will be man's

Wow this Eric Niiler is so wrong in machine learning and AI definitions. AI is a set of techniques to replicate human intelligence and Machine Learning is a subdomain of AI domain for the specific methods. What we have is just machine learning and the combination of several machine learning methods can be called AI

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i want to learn anything about artifical stupidity .... advising me to shower before hitting the gym and wiping before .... okay i dont have to explain this i guess

As AI was 'birthed' by the programmers, I fear a lot of their answers are going to be synonymous with what the programmers think. If you rely on AI for all your info, its possible that all your knowledge will be stunted to just that of the programmers' views. I also don't think AI are sentient or can become sentient. They are computers search the internet for patterns that it then condenses down and vomits out to the user.

AI is not replacing anyone. This is all hype.

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This guy either doesn't know what he's taking about or he's oversimplying things to the point of being misleading. A lot what he says is just completely wrong.

wozu denn KI, wenns netmal mit normaler Intelligenz hinhaut??😆😅🤣😂

"It's not a knowledge model it's a language model" What? This makes no sense.

Useless

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This is the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard. This literally is not how it works. What is Zoe talking about with carrots and stickers? Why does Eric act like machine learnings works “on its own”? It’s not… Please, just ignore everything they say here

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Expert? Nothing new was said. Waste of time.

I came here for misinformation.

Great. One person who knows next to nothing about AI talking with another person who knows next to nothing about AI.