Pre-Artificial Intelligence

Arvind Narayanan is a computer science professor at Princeton who publishes a newsletter called AI Snake Oil and is writing a book by that name—and is, as you might guess, inclined to downplay the significance of recent developments in AI. An example of something he downplayed:
Earlier this year, computer scientists at Microsoft published a paper called “Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: Early experiments with GPT-4.” They argued that the latest version of OpenAI’s large language model was showing some of the hallmarks of “artificial general intelligence” or AGI. On Twitter, after someone paraphrased the paper’s thesis as “the sparks of AGI have been ignited,” Narayanan tweeted dismissively: “The ‘sparks’ of AGI were ignited a few hundred thousand years ago when our ancestors learned to control fire, setting us on a path to technological civilization.”
I agree that the roots of artificial intelligence run at least that deep—in fact, I’d say they run deeper. But my takeaway from this depth is in some ways the opposite of Narayanan’s. I think it underscores how epic the technological moment we’re living in is.AI and the Noosphere, Part II - by Robert Wright (substack.com)
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* Pre; Artificial; Pre-artificial; Intelligence; Meta-computing
* Meta-artificial intelligence; Pre-AI; Pre-concept; Pre-computer; Pre-computing; Pre-math; Pre-mechanical
* Noosphere; Cybersphere; Cyber noosphere; Cyborgification; Posthuman; Prehuman; Transhuman consciousness; Transhumanism
* Pre-cognitive; Post-cognitive; meta-cognitive; pre-analytical; meta-analytical; para-cognitive; pre-posthuman
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