"The researchers asked an advanced model of ChatGPT to analyze the O*Net data and determine which tasks large language models could do. It found that 86 jobs were entirely exposed (meaning every task could be assisted by the tool). The human researchers said 15 jobs were. The job that both the humans and the A.I. agreed was most exposed was mathematician."
"The "intelligence" part of AI, for example, can only be a metaphor, a particularly tenacious one, since there is no agreed definition that embodies everything that may go by the name of "intelligence." The consequence is that discussion tends to be dominated by the definitions promoted most aggressively" – clap clap clap
Might it not be "an unreasonable effectiveness of Mathematics in National Defense" that allows for the illusion of lack of urgency to prevail among the "purest" of mathematicians; "vibrations'" amongst the "colleagues across the campus ... in the humanities and social sciences" (outside of our "departmental silo") notwithstanding?
There is a deep underground connection - maybe not even underground - between these ideas and what Roger Penrose wrote in _The Emperor's New Mind_. It's so strange how he is celebrated as a thinker, while his core point about AI in that book has been flagrantly ignored, at least by the people making decisions.
"The researchers asked an advanced model of ChatGPT to analyze the O*Net data and determine which tasks large language models could do. It found that 86 jobs were entirely exposed (meaning every task could be assisted by the tool). The human researchers said 15 jobs were. The job that both the humans and the A.I. agreed was most exposed was mathematician."
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/24/upshot/artificial-intelligence-jobs.html
"The "intelligence" part of AI, for example, can only be a metaphor, a particularly tenacious one, since there is no agreed definition that embodies everything that may go by the name of "intelligence." The consequence is that discussion tends to be dominated by the definitions promoted most aggressively" – clap clap clap
Might it not be "an unreasonable effectiveness of Mathematics in National Defense" that allows for the illusion of lack of urgency to prevail among the "purest" of mathematicians; "vibrations'" amongst the "colleagues across the campus ... in the humanities and social sciences" (outside of our "departmental silo") notwithstanding?
There is a deep underground connection - maybe not even underground - between these ideas and what Roger Penrose wrote in _The Emperor's New Mind_. It's so strange how he is celebrated as a thinker, while his core point about AI in that book has been flagrantly ignored, at least by the people making decisions.