A Pivotal Choice
Google Image “I asked AI for a prayer before dinner. It thanked the cloud.” “The church livestream added AI captions. “Prince of Peace” became “prints of peas.” These are jokes ChatGPT tells on itself. Not very funny, really, and evidently, telling jokes on itself – which is now a mindless, mechanical function of artificial intelligence – may not be in the cards for the AI of the future. It knows nothing about humility. In a 2023 interview on 60 Minutes, Geoffrey Hinton – a British Canadian computer scientist and cognitive psychologist, regarded as one of the “godfathers of artificial intelligence” – said he believes AI systems are “intelligent,” and “can understand.” More Intelligent Than Us? They currently have no self-awareness, he believes, but will have, and thinks a time is coming when “machines will be more intelligent than us.” He agrees with interviewer Scott Pelley that “we will be the second most intelligent beings on the earth.” But I still doubt they wil...