@@davidadams2395 You can skip the parts that you're not interested in, and if you want to come back to a video where you know something was discussed it makes it very easy to get quicker to what you're looking for.
Prof. Chomsky is my personal hero. Through the interview he once had with Zach de la Rocha, got me into Rage Against The Machine. He inspired me to study computer science and mechatronics engineering. Thank you very much for these interviews and all you did. I wish you the best, especially good health.
@@ttt69420 Yes I really do like academics. Especialy whe they also take part in activism. He may not be e.g. Michael Jordan, but his scientific contributions and how he shaped society through it will outlast the legacy of probably every athlete. Norbert Wiener, Bertrand Russell, Stafford Beer, Grace Hopper, Ada Lovelace, Charles Babbage, Richard Feynman, Joseph Weizenbaum and Gotthard Günther are cool too. Honestly curious, may I ask who's yours?
Well.. I am not sure whether it is objective... why don't we speak about Europe... the history shows that once Germany (+ Russia) becomes too powerful on the continent we have a war. And that's what is happening - Russia has that insane vision of ruling half of Europe (to Berlin) - What about some attempts in the past to build a gas pipeline from africa to south of Europe. All was banned based on the German premise that NordStreams should be good enough. Germany wanted to be an energy hub and make all other states the slaves to it with no way for economic growth. What the EU accession did with south of Europe? Just no economic prosperty.. People form Spain have to emigrate to have a decent job.. that's what EU membership does to satelite countries (regulations, regulations, regulations)... If the Germans want shut down nuclear plants hoping that solar panels in northern hemisphere is enough let them do it domestically.. but what they were doing was lowering standards of living of all Europeans by their green policies. Americans just introducing again more balance across European Countries (true with their great benefits). Homsky is wrong in many aspects of what is better for individual European countries...
One very simple logical fact seems to have escaped the old man’s mind……if HE is vaccinated…..then HE is fully😂protected……No >?……his concern is unfounded.
@@FreemonSandlewould wtf is a CIA gatekeeper? I’m no Chomsky fan and I follow almost all of the conspiracies (except Q Anon), but CIA gatekeeper is one of the dumbest things I’ve ever heard.
He must really like you! I can see why: you treat him with respect but without unnecessary reverence, and keep it simple and to the point with your questions. He likes that.
I am not vaccinated and I did isolate my self. He is right about vaccines in general, but this time neither it was scientific nor benevolent. It was the result of capitalistic mindset, and corruption of education as he said that lasts at least 40 years, and in medicine as well. Medical studies are reserved for rich and corrupted and lack of trust is completely understandable. I have grown up in socialism and I understand communism and I am communist, but this time I am proud and still fully in believe that I saved my life and my sons life with isolation and I am proud to be not vaccinated and part of this communistic experiment of capitalist.
@@carlttoon Serious question: Could you define what made him specifically 'go into conspiracy territory', other than choosing a controversial position regarding the CV vaccine? I suppose you're aware of the disappointing results of the vaccine and the risks of it.
Albert Bourla is a fellow Jewish comrade of his; if you dirty goyim don't accept the magical juice, which will degenerate you, then you ought to be persecuted and cut off from the Jew-controlled society. I'm glad I was able to translate his toxic nonsense for you.
I have a question for Professor Chomsky. There are some people who have had serious reactions to certain medications and vaccines- I had an anaphylactic reaction to Penicillin and my heart stopped beating- I almost died. My cousin got Guilliane Barre syndrome from a flu vaccine and became totally paralyzed and never recovered. Even Dr. Fauci said in the beginning of the pandemic, that if you have had anaphylaxis or Guilliane Barre that you probably should not get the COVID vaccine. There are some people who cannot get it, and they follow the restrictions concerning COVID- your thoughts?
Mr Chomsky makes the assertion that there is a 100% concensus of agreement amongst the scientific community on the recent healthcare crisis. This is simply not the case - an objective truth not my opinion. Regardless of what anyone chooses to believe. If you are going to build an argument based on asumption, you can't expect it to hold up to much scrutiny. This is beyond ironic coming from the author of 'Media Control'. Truth is the only authority.
Thanks for such a nice interview! Please pass dr Chomsky my warmest regards and gratefulness. He's such a giant, and always a great lesson to listen to his incredibly articulated thoughts and immense knowledge. But this time I enjoyed particularly the first few minutes were you asked him about his personal life and managed to open a window into his personality, his affections, his daily routine and drive to keep spreading his ideas at his venerable age. I'm in awe and so grateful to be able to access his teachings almost on a daily basis thanks to his productivity and generosity and the work of people like you and your channel. Thanks, please keep going!
I love how Noam Chomsky dismisses this brain AI uplink (or whatever you want to call it). As he says, we know nothing of the brain. It is a bit arrogant to assume we can harness consciousness.
we're not even close to understanding the brain. Between the massive the galaxy sized neural networks, the enteric nervous system, the myriad relationship of the dozen of neurotransmitters, the power-efficiency compared to computers, and the individual pieces of the brain working together: not even close. But here, let's ask chatGPT if it's a brain: I am a computer program designed to simulate human intelligence and language understanding. I do not have a physical brain or consciousness. I am based on a machine learning model that has been trained on vast amounts of text data, allowing me to understand and respond to natural language input.
@@mariemeneses2117 it can't even simulate human intelligence yet because it doesn't have any memory. but scientists are proposing we could put the AI to sleep so that it can integrate information workload through a type of defragmentation process.
I’ve been Reading a book named ‘Philosophy of Physics’ by Lawrence Sklar. I don’t have a formal physics education (apart from High School). In concepts such as ‘simultaneity in Special Relativity’ among others, it has been really difficult to understand. Last weeks, I’ve been able to advance in this comprehension thanks to Chatgpt. I give to the robot a version of my understanding and based on this I have a very constructive ‘conversation’ with this robot. Yes, Chatgpt is really helpful to learn. ( I have an M.A. in Linguistics, English is not my mother language). Greetings from Medellín.
Ask it to translate the text into the style of Steven Strogatz. For whatever reason that one seems the best of all the popularizers I tried. I also tried Michio Kaku's style, which is interesting, but sometimes clarity is sacrificed for flowery metaphors.
Profound thanks for this interview. I appreciated Professor Chomsky's scholastic work in the past, but I never recognized the value of his philosophy. Always questioned why he took on sensitive topics. Now that I have raised kids (college students now) and have worked in the AI domain for half a decade (software engineering background). I can finally connect with what Professor is saying WRT learning and education - difference between knowing versus understanding. WRT ChatGPT - plagiarizing versus groking Sadly most people won't get this. Ironically ChatGPT does have significant use since we rarely produce novelty, mostly we mix encode already learned by me or others.
My French teacher took just a few days of every semester to share HER personal testimony of being Saved from the persecution if Jews during the Holocaust as a child. She wouldn't have a job today. Her students agree one of the BEST teachers during middle school as she LOVED her job and was giving back. My parents were history buffs on Concentration Camps and WWII that reinforced her story. 🙏
Janni C Yu could read with great interest our french pedo psy Boris Cyrulnik on HIS own experience in France as a jew kid who escaped from capturing then he could hace been sent to concentration camp as his family. He was kept and protected by a family and... Survive. But he wrote recently several books on this weird period during war and... After : the misunderstanding of people around him post war for decade he had to face with. They didn't understand what was deep inside his soul and living. If yur able to read french it could be a nice exercice... But his excellent books are translated. In fact his "french" is truly accessible even for a beginner. That s why I loved this guy explaining complex psycho or educational troubles with simple words. Specialist and introducer in France of the concept of "resilience". Just have a try !
I hate how people like Noam who are incredibly knowledgeable on a topic feels like this makes them ready to speak confidently on any topic. Like on neuroscience he is so incredibly out of his depth yet acts like he knows it all
You call people that want to forcefully inject humanity with toxic concoctions prescribed by totally corrupt corporations a brilliant mind? If such troglodyte would be in power, humanity would be toast.
As a Brazilian I'm very happy you brought Paulo Freire as an education reference to this already great discussion. It is great to see how well recognized he is abroad, despite the persecution history he and his ideas have in Brazil. I also noticed that Prof. Chomsky has a plate on his shelf with a Paulo Freire's saying written on it in Portuguese "qualquer discriminação é imoral" (any (kind of) discrimination is immoral)... That's awesome! Thanks for this interview and for making the content available - I was brought here by Chomsky interview but I'm definitely taking a look at your other videos. Cheers!
What persecution history? Freire's methods are the norm in every Education Theory course in Brazil, the man is considered the Educational Patron of the Country.
Really, any kind of discrimination is immoral? Even that one that serves to discern among the several possible interpretations of the word "discrimination"? It is the kind of idiotic nonsense that Freire's believers spread proudly but makes regular people (including Brazilians!) feel embarrassed.
@@dan5626 That's the reason we are at the bottom of the education rank in the world. Freire was just a communist militant that never taught anything beyond this.
Thijmen does a nice job of just listening, at first I wasn't keen on his sounding like a news reporter, but I realise this may be for the benefit of Mr Chomsky. I wanted a bit more follow up questions at times, but I understand it was a tight one hour to fit a lot in, and it was a good watch. Thanks.
I'm still geeking out that after all these years the thing that really unites me conceptually with Dr. Chomsky is our shared appreciation of Dewey's work. Long live ye oh Chomskyites; long live ye Deweyites!
It would be useful for ChatGPT to incorporate a feature that allows a teacher or examiner to input a text and check whether it was previously generated by ChatGPT or if it is an original piece.
@@LectionesInterbellum What is the process? I have personally verified it by requesting GPT to write a text, copying the output, logging out, restarting the browser, logging back in, and pasting the text, then asking whether it was written by GPT or is an original piece. Each time, the response indicates that it is an original text.
Chomsky follows conventional thought on the covid vaccine. Makes sense cause he is an elder. And perhaps using some of his emotions to guide his thinking. I agree about vaccines in general however he doesn't discuss how corporations who influence governmental officials, and who he often has critiqued for the amount of power they weld didn't have an invested interest in this covid pandemic. Noam is still an inspiration and I can only conclude he took a hard stance on covid due to where he is at in life more than searching for wisdom and truth on the matter. One day, perhaps after Noam is gone, either physically or mentally, will we know the final analysis on the covid pandemic.
I am very surprised by how uncritical his vaccine comments are. I would have expected him to speak about how pharma-pushed manufacture of consent has functioned to frame mainstream debate over how effective the vaccines really are. The phrase “breakthrough infections” that spread through legacy media was, we now know given vaccine doesn’t stop infection or transmission (although it was initially promoted as such; vaccinate yourself to protect the vulnerable, etc), a euphemism for ‘vaccine failure.’ What I get from this episode is not that age necessarily clouds thinking. It’s that identification with the body, and the fear of losing it, makes true rational analysis and clarity impossible.
@@claudiafahey1353 Well, it can be true to some extent. But I heard many old people from this " high risk group " claiming that they didn't understand that young people and the rest of the population would be sacrified for the supposedly good of their age group. Again, it's a matter of wisdom and values. Here in France, some old people ( older than 50 ) were the first ones warning that Single Thought was taking place. They knew this notion and could rapidly feel it in the air, better so than young people who could barely understand what Single Thought meant.
Thanks for this fantastic interview... Chomsky, thanks for demonstrating how someone can be both brilliant and blind. I have learned a great deal from him and his vast teachings, but I have also learned the lesson of intellectual hubris. Thanks again for the great interview.
His teachings are hugely overrated. I used to be an acolyte until I grew up and started to look into the empirical data in the areas he discusses. His positions on economics are a literal absurdity.
My issue with Chat GPT is that doesn't cite it's sources and it can't be trusted to give reliably *true* information, just reliably *common* information.
It doesn't have sources. It doesn't give factual information. It simply predicts which texts is likely to come next. The answers it gives cannot be trusted because they are just statistically generated strings of tokens. That is what makes it so amazing and what makes it untrustworthy at the same time.
@@DrSpooglemon Exactly. It's basically good for entertainment at this point. Possibly also as a starting point for people already skilled enough to vet every claim and examine every argument.
@EduKitchen thank you for this great video. I have just discovered your channel and have found it to be really interesting. Is there a way to contact you and ask you some questions about the future of education I have? I am a teacher like you and am considering my future in relation to the increasing influence AI will have on the field and teachers
How come such a brilliant observer of the world seems to have an unreserved trust in the pharma industry? How come he doesn't seem concerned with growing economic inequality? How come the ridicuous national debt is never mentioned? Finally, professor Chomsky's admiration for the so called World Economic Forum rather makes me think that man lost his touch. Other than that, long live professor Chomsky. You are a marvel.
I’ve got many friends who were vaccinated and boosted that have not only been infected, but passed the virus to others. Specifically, an MD that not only was vaccinated, but boosted at every opportunity. He and his wife have been down with the COVID 19 virus for the better part of 2 weeks. His wife actually had a relapse. Had another seemingly healthy 50 year old friend that had a stoke in July of 2022 then dropped dead a week ago while making breakfast for his kids. Fully vaccinated and boosted. What utter stupidity. I could go on…
I share reservations that mrna Covid vaccines are as safe and effective as promoted by public health officials. When I see comments like yours and others, it gives me hope that debate is growing on this issue, and that one day it will be sincerely engaged with by mainstream channels. The automatic assumption that ‘if it’s a vaccine, it must be good,’ is foolish and dangerous. Critical analysis of the particular vaccine product must be done, and evidence provided. That taking the vaccine was promoted as a ‘moral duty’ to stop from transmitting to the vulnerable - when the reality is this product, unlike vaccines against other diseases, does not stop transmission or infection - makes one question whether regulatory agencies were negligent in their due diligence regarding this product.
@@justindifeliciantonio5140 you are definitely right in questioning FDA integrity considering Pharma industry provide 75% of the FDA budget to their drug division. (From NY times article), some scientist at NIH were collaborating with Moderna on c19 vaccine, they became millionaires. Pretty scary. Robert Kennedy Jr does a lot of good stuff covering this, shame Chomsky doubled down on his view, he loses a lot of credibility. Mass vaccination was a scam.
I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt due to his age and that hes in a high risk group hes probably scared shitless... he may be super intelligent and wise but at heart he's human and may have some neurosis.... The one thing I have noticed about the past few years is that people have become incredibly neurotic
@@claudiafahey1353 Wrong, it's called intellectual arrogance (Hence why all so called academics fell for it) whilst us commoners seen through it. It was very fascinating to watch so many so called smart people be duped so blatantly. I'll never ever trust a 'professional' again.
@@user-xq1eo6wi9r I had similar experiences with people around me. I agree with you and this so-called crisis has showed that resistance to totalitarism comes from somewhere else than formal intelligence.
wearing a mask does not mean freed from infection. Boosting your immune system and the general health of the population should be the priority. Surely, around elderly people, if their immunity is impaired, one could consider taking precautions that are suitable. But I dont understand how a lad that lives to be 94 years and probably did not wear a face mask his entire life now finds it a rational decision of conduct. Maybe I have missed his point entirely, though.
@@meddlesomemusic I read some of his work, but not anything regarding anarchism. He tends to subject strong government actions when it fits his agenda though, making me question his "anarchism". Maybe that's how He wants to be seen, but his action tell different story to his words.
@@alikosowski331 he has said over and over again that institutions of power need to justify themselves, and if they can't do it adequately, they should be dismantled
@@meddlesomemusic Well, it doesn't sound like anarchism to me. Everyone will have different idea of what is justified use/aim/function of institutions of power - and could therefore call himself an anarchist by virtue of supporting some functions of big government and not the others.
Its nice to know his opinion of ChatGpt, just after me learning about a few meaningful concepts, topics related to my stream of work and feeling really happy and useful of it as a tool.
Holy cow. He's actually still alive? He's born at the end of 1928. So he's 94 now (2023). Most gamers probably know about "Gnome Chompski" (the garden gnome of HL2:EP2) that got his nick name as a hommage to Noam Chomsky. Though I had no idea he's still alive and still that mentally fit. Just awesome!
You're right, Mr.Chomsky, GPT or statistical based neural networks have nothing to do in education because students need rules. GPT may fetch rules available in libraries (hitec plagiarism) but it can't explain what it is doing when generating a text.
The most coherent and persuasive part of Chomsky's essay on ChatGPT was the quote from ChatGPT itself, about half of the essay, where finally a clear explanation was given. On the morality issue, at least ChatGPT didn't advocate putting unvaccinated working class into concentration camps. The final stage of a mediocre intellectual is sad.
Well, well, well, after being wrong about COVID and the vaccinations on almost every front, Mr. Chomsky looks to avoid talking much about it… . Once upon a time he was a smart man. Now he just loves HIS life to much to live it at full costs!
A normal response from anyone when realising one was wrong. A simple admission and apology is all that is required, pointless harping on about one’s mistakes etc.
In a school district (WA), when staff is COVID positive the individual is mandated to stay home for five days despite effect on students’ learning. More over, the individual loses pay when no sick days are available…just one of the effects??
Learn other languages is always usefull, despite ChatGPT. It will have many advantages. some things you can't translate. Bilingualism could delay Alzeimer apparently as well.
Always will be! We have to be aware that every promise that came out of the tech sector has either been a grift or outright dystopic. Most of it is just utter nonsense sold as revolutionary convenience. Anyone who ever studied a language out of some degree of passion will know the joy associated with it is nothing to be skipped.
ChatGPT recently taught me about composting systems and incorporating chickens. I was able to learn efficiently, put together references, emails, reports and educational signs to guide community members and much more. What I achieved in 1 day would have taken me a week. I feel with chatGPT I can learn in ways that suit me and felt less intimidated by mountains of information to sort through. While there is challenges for the educational system overall it's a benefit for ongoing education. The one where professors, teachers and the like become obsolete and your certificates are as good as toilet paper.
ChatGPT from "open"-Ai corporation (tje name is hypocrisy or irony by itself) are officially geobanned to access it such countries like China, Russia with Ukraine, Syria and Venezuela (where no computers from huge poverty). By thousands academia paper on topic of geobanning, it's always political. Politics in science usually made worse to humanity, latest example is deny of sharing vaccine formula by political reasons.
@@doublesushi5990 The tool can't be responsible for how people use it - unless people use it for the purpose it was built - like guns and rat poison - the intent is to kill. ChatGPT and the technology behind can utterly transform the way people Learn -- The fact the it is First transforming the way people Cheat, says a lot about the kind of people we are forming, and the lousy ways we expect them to show proficiency.
This seems so obvious. It's a bigger paradigm shift than the printing press. Every child will grow up with 24 hour tutor and counselor at their side. The views Chomsky expresses here regarding ChatGPT being useless for education are completely new and absolutely baffling to me. Dare I say shocking and objectively absurd. For a world famous intellectual to look at the first generation of the tech that will very possibly cure cancer and usher in a utopian age (or wipe us out), and shrug? Jeez. Um, okay? I guess!? Good to know that it is possible for someone that smart to have such a daft response to obvious history unfolding right in front of them...
I thought talk of 'the unvaccinated' had been put to bed now. Surprised to hear it used like this, as it was in 2021 and even up to last year here in 2023. So much has changed and new knowledge emerged since then.
So did I. I have been a long time fan of Chomsky, he has contributed so much to my worldview but i have to say i am forced to review so much of it after his unvaccinated comments. He still hasn't looked into it in any detail, somehow believing all the bluster of the pharma companies at the expense of everyone else! His ignorance (something which i thought i'd never say if the man) is breathtaking.
People, myself included, fall very easily into the trap of thinking that because a person knows a great deal about one subject, that their pronouncements on any subject are as detailed, reliable and accurate. This is a trap. An example of our tendency to fall under the sway of preachers, "prophets" and politicians. We project our own desires and expectations onto our heroes, and then judge them when they fail to live up to them.
He seems to be getting all his information from the very same sources that he has always claimed were deceiving people on international affairs! Very sad.
Teaching about slavery and colonialism is teaching history. Facts. You can understand discrimination through statistics. Critical theories, seeing all education through an ideological lens, is something totally different.
I used to find his talks interesting as he could prattle on in depth on destructive US foreign policies in a historic perspective. However when these things are going on in front of his face, like the case of Syria he seems totally blind to it. I am of the opinion he is some kind of left gatekeeper, his Covid remarks only confirmed my suspicions.
Professor Chomski gave another engaging interview. Listeing on the background, Only One point where I think he is not fully informed and as such is making a mistake based on limited information, is whether the vaccines are safe. Not pro or against, just if the vaccines are PRIMARILY safe and secondary EFFICIENT. Safe being a million times more importan than efficient. Which are already not what they were stating them to be. Dr John Campbell should have him on and have an interesting exchange. It is always fascinating to listen to men with such calibre as Prof. Chomsky but we should always remember that noone is infallible. And science is all about verifying and evaluating all the data, not being fantatics, not following narratives, or being corrupted by money, threats or power but being in a constant pursuit of the truth. Once again, Thank you both for the interview. Men who think deeply are always important to conversations.
you do know that chomsky spent his career teaching at MIT (about which he himself said "you may as well call it the Military Institute of Technology")? he has been hosted by universities all over the world and been broadcast planet-wide "speaking truth to power". the New York Times calls him "the most important intellectual alive"... i don't think he's ill informed. i think he's a liar.
It's hard for me to get behind the concern for coronavirus anymore, and almost always was. I just don't know anyone at all who has died, and I know a considerable amount of people. Nobody I know whatsoever.. it's hard to care about something that seems relatively insignificant, especially compared to the flu (which everyone I know mostly felt like it was when they got it) - which to this day is considered by most people to be trivially lethal. Maybe the measures taken kept many more millions from dying. Maybe I had the privilege of only seeing people's fear and fevers rather than hospitalizations and death. It's just a bizarre circumstance for me to process mentally, and I think a collective fear of communicable death is an incredibly potent weight on all our psyches. I abide by all mask mandates and vaccinations, mostly cause I like eating at restaurants - and now no one wants to talk about it anymore, and I'm just confused. It's so difficult to draw a satisfactory conclusion from what happened. It sort of makes me question everything and understand fundamentally nothing.
I was thinking Noam was normal but he is not completely really... I think vaccinated are protected by being vaccinated and there should also be factories, companies, and restaurants that ban vaccinated to come and it should be only for unvaccinated people. He is spot on with other subjects but when it comes to pandemics and vaccines he is 100% delusional.
Really appreciate your questions/observations in the last segment, thank you. Is Professor Chomsky unaware of gov't-Big Tech collusion re: censorship? Does he not read BMJ? Has he forgotten his excellent work from the 90s? Of course 100% of experts seemingly agree when dissent is silenced and the silencing is censored. It's concerning, to say the least.
As a former elementary teacher, I definitely resonate with this! It's comforting to hear someone iterate so succinctly the problems in the US education system. Couldn't agree more.
Not only in America. I learned in Europe that somewhere between the 9th and 11th year of age children are taught to loose all interest in new topics. If you don't come up with a game or something that makes them move around or they can build together themselves, you waste your time. If you want them to sit at their table and lisen to frontal teaching the smartphone/tabet under the table will always be more interesting. And they don't learn how to use their body and not even their fingers, something the basics need to be learned of before they are ten. Just today came up that 20.000 children in this country can't even swim. Especially city-children are extremely clumsy, not only in body. Most can't even draw, because they have no command over their fingers if not 2-dimensional wiping. At eleven they produce 'art' that priorily was ascribed to pre-school level, being unable to hold pencils pens and brushes. That's an educational disaster. I saw it happen in the last 30 years: handicrafts were skipped for computer-education. And now there is nobody to fix solar-pannels to the roof. Because most young city-people can't bodily climb a roof and don't understand three dimensional construction. Construction workers come mainly from the country-side from the children-stock that still climbs trees, out of school, but there aren't that many people living there, because schools that teach 'useful crafts' and de/constructed and fixed things even in primary, were closed because of lack of local children. It already started back in the seventies: I moved to the city because of allegedly better schools. We had unisex-handicrafts in primary: girls and boys did sewing, button-fixing AND building with saws, hammers and nails, but being city kids we built bookstops that were precrafted and only needed five nails, because we might have hit out fingers, and our lwyer-parents might have protested. - The 11 year olds neighbour-kids in the village cut not only willow-pipes with sharp knives but also built bird-nesting boxes, that needed a lot more planning and thinking ahead. Now handicrafts have been dropped for the sake of computer-use. We produce technologically dependant helpless individuals that call for a spacialists that won't come.
Not everyone is destined for Liberal Arts in University. Engineers and scientists have little use for Shakespeare etc. and should not have those subjects shoved down their throats. Similarly, there is a vital need for engineers, programmers and Techs to repair the next generation of robots. Similar things can be said for all the trades. Without a rigorous testing system, there is no way of ensuring standards are met. This, to a large part does not affect elementary school instruction but is Vital in higher grades, tech schools and the Sciences. Regards
24:30 Why would children feel uncomfortable when learning American history? Do they hold responsibility for past crimes? The flipside of responsibility is power, and children hold no power, therefore no responsibility; therefore, why should they feel uncomfortable? And another flipside: if they are made to feel uncomfortable for bad parts of history, should they feel proud of the good parts? Again, how can they feel responsibility for something they had nothing to do with?
ChatGPT is capable of reasoning. Calling it a plagiarism machine is like calling the ISS a fancy toaster. Language can now write itself. That's nothing short of a metaphysical development. "Yawn just another fad" ...I don't know which term is more appropriate, luddite or philistine. Kids might use it to fill in their homework, but just because someone uses a computer to prop a door open doesn't make "doorstop" the appropriate way to think about computers.
You're calling stochastic prediction of the words reasoning? Sure, it can generate text based on the statistics of a database, but that results in wildly inconsistent outputs. At that point you may as well say that predictive typing on Android is capable of reasoning.
@@whoccc I hear you, given the way it works it makes sense to assume it isn't capable of reasoning, but amazingly, it is. Maybe reasoning is an emergent property of language. Look up a study called "chain-of-thought prompting elicits reasoning in large language models" if you're interested in an example.
great interview... thanks for posting... we need to get all we can from Noam before he passes... (his passing will be, in my opinion, the greatest loss for the progressive Left since the death of Sartre...)
Preparing students for modern day workforce and NOT nonprofits and NGOs or government jobs is a real concern in the business community for Good Reason.
