[Ads-l] ADS Interesting AI Quotations (Part 2)

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

Some quotes below (and in the previous post) are too long, too
complex, or too obscure for a general audience. The long excerpts are
meant to show the context. I include these quotations here for
posterity.

Physicist and science popularizer Michio Kaku offered a provocative
analysis of recent developments in AI: "A chatbot is a glorified tape
recorder."

Website: CNN
Date: August 13, 2023
Article: Are The Fears About A.I. Chatbots Overblown?,
Article Info: Transcript of Fareed Zakaria and Michio Kaku,
https://transcripts.cnn.com/show/fzgps/date/2023-08-13/segment/01

[Begin excerpt - double-check for errors]
KAKU: I think the media is hyperventilating over the implications of
these chatbots. First of all, they are productive. They're going to
speed up the ability to produce materials. This could be an advance
for society in general. However, people are focusing on the negative
aspects of chatbots as well because people are afraid.

However, what is a chatbot? A chatbot is a glorified tape recorder. It
takes snippets of what is on the Web, created by a human, splices them
together and passes them off as if it created these things. And people
are saying, oh, my God, it is a human. It is human like. The chatbot
simply rearranges what is ever on the internet already. It is a tape
recorder of a very advance type that does not understand truth . . .
[End excerpt]

Jensen Huang is the CEO and co-founder of Nvidia Corp. which makes the
most powerful computer chips for AI. He offered the following
cautionary job advice: “While some worry that AI may take their jobs,
someone who’s expert with AI will.”

Website: Bloomberg
Article: Nvidia CEO Says Those Without AI Expertise Will Be Left Behind
Authors: Vlad Savov and Debby Wu
Timestamp: May 28, 2023, 2:24 PM UTC

[Begin excerpt - double-check for errors]
Firms and individuals should familiarize themselves with artificial
intelligence or risk losing out, according to Nvidia Corp. co-founder
and Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang.

“Agile companies will take advantage of AI and boost their position.
Companies less so will perish,” the CEO told graduating students at
the National Taiwan University in Taipei. “While some worry that AI
may take their jobs, someone who’s expert with AI will.”

“In 40 years, we created the PC, Internet, mobile, cloud, and now the
AI era. What will you create? Whatever it is, run after it like we
did. Run, don’t walk,” he said. “Either you are running for food, or
you are running from becoming food.”
[End excerpt]

New AI systems are changing the process of programming computers.
Andrej Karpathy who is a top AI scientist at OpenAI made a provocative
tweet.

Social Network: X/Twitter
Handle: Andrej Karpathy @karpathy
Timestamp: 3:14 PM · Jan 24, 2023
https://x.com/karpathy/status/1617979122625712128

[Begin tweet]
The hottest new programming language is English
[End tweet]

A cartoon in the New Yorker depicts humans who are carrying heavy
blocks while being overseen by whip wielding robotic overseers.

Website: The New Yorker
Date: April 17, 2023
Cartoonist: Robert Leighton
Magazine Date: April 24 & May 1, 2023, Issue
https://www.newyorker.com/cartoons/issue-cartoons/cartoons-from-the-april-24-and-may-1-2023-issue

[Begin cartoon caption]
“To think this all began with letting autocomplete finish our sentences.”
[End cartoon caption]

The joke in the caption above is probably deeper than most readers
will perceive. Currently, the training of large language models in AI
is based on predicting words which extend a sequence.

Tim Sweeney is the founder and CEO of Epic Games. He initiated the
creation of Unreal Engine, one of the most popular game development
platforms. Sweeney made an X/Tweet that summarized the most important
legal controversy facing the world of art and intellectual property in
2023.

Social Network: X/Twitter
Handle: Tim Sweeney @TimSweeneyEpic
Timestamp: 1:41 PM · Sep 2, 2023

https://x.com/TimSweeneyEpic/status/1698318849643249963

[Begin tweet]
The idea that art made from generative AI whose billion-image training
set included a particular piece of source art is a derivative work of
that source art is a massive leap beyond existing legal precedent. No
court has issued any sort of ruling of that sort.
[End tweet]

AI researcher Geoffrey Hinton compared biological neurons and digital
neurons and came to a startling conclusion.

Social Network: X/Twitter
Handle: Peter Frost David @PeterFrostDavid
Timestamp: 10:27 AM · Jul 10, 2023
Description: The X/tweet displayed a picture of a provocative slide
used by top AI researcher Geoffrey Hinton during a presentation
https://twitter.com/PeterFrostDavid/status/1678410635883827203

[Begin text on slide from Geoffrey Hinton]
* I spent the last two years trying to find a far more energy
efficient and brain-like way to train and run large neural networks.
* This work led me to conclude that digital neural networks may be a
much better form of intelligence than biological neural networks.
[End text on slide]

Social Network: X/Twitter
Handle: Geoffrey Hinton @geoffreyhinton
Timestamp: 5:01 PM · Mar 15, 2023
https://twitter.com/geoffreyhinton/status/1636110447442112513

[Begin X/tweet]
Reinforcement Learning by Human Feedback is just parenting for a
supernaturally precocious child.
[End X/tweet]

Social Network: X/Twitter
Handle: Geoffrey Hinton @geoffreyhinton
Timestamp: 4:27 PM · Mar 14, 2023
https://twitter.com/geoffreyhinton/status/1635739459764322330

[Begin X/Tweet]
Caterpillars extract nutrients which are then converted into
butterflies. People have extracted billions of nuggets of
understanding and GPT-4 is humanity's butterfly.
[End X/Tweet]

Social Network: X/Twitter
Handle: Pedro Domingos @pmddomingos
6:24 PM · Mar 14, 2023
https://twitter.com/pmddomingos/status/1635768882949685249

[Begin X/Tweet]
Humanity is the caterpillar and AI is the butterfly. (@geoffreyhinton)
[End X/Tweet]

Garson

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