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Junaid Mubeen

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first: 2022-06-13
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“The biscuit because it's akin to saying that the autocomplete function on your phone has suddenly, because it's able to develop this uncanny neck of finishing off your sentences. And admittedly these technologies can do a bit more than that at the moment. But that's basically what it does at its core. It predicts strings of text. Some of these technologies can generate images from text. Very impressive. But the notion that that amounts to sentience, I think is I think it's a deeply unfortunate way to characterize what these technologies do. And one of the most important things is that it cheapens our own notions of our own human attributes. Consciousness and sentience is one of the most mysterious things that we have going for as humans. The idea that we're already there, I think, is premature. I think the suspension is quite appropriate. I feel it's quite rare.”
2022-06-13 · Intelligence Squared · Count your Blessings: The Natural Beauty of Mathematics, with Junaid Mubeen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I'll answer the second part first. I think Hollywood has a lot to answer for. I remember growing up watching the Terminator movies and there's this sense that once machines become self-aware, we're done as humans because their goals just won't align to ours. But sentience is a very deep concept. If you ask the world's best neuroscientists what we mean by consciousness or sentience or free will, these are very thorny concepts to define. So the notion that we've already arrived at sentience by virtue of these pattern matching systems, these large language models, it's a very bizarre claim to make, perhaps unsurprising because it's coming from within industry. It's a way of drumming up hype and generating interest. But there are claims within AI that are exaggerated. But this one really does take...”
2022-06-13 · Intelligence Squared · Count your Blessings: The Natural Beauty of Mathematics, with Junaid Mubeen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT