this post was submitted on 14 Jun 2023
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Explain it to me like I am 5. Everybody should know what this is about.
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AI currently doesn't "understand" or "know" anything. It's trained on a collection of text, and then predicts and extends the text prompt you give it. It's very good at doing this. If someone "creates something new" the trained AI will have no concept of it, unless you train a new ai model that includes text about that thing.
Oh wow it is really interesting that new things will be unknown! So basically AI still isn't intelligence because it can't really make choices on its own, just based on what it has learned.
Now lets really break your brain, are you & I able to make our own choices? Is the ego, the voice in our own skulls, the conscious mind really ever making any decisions?
There are a great many studies that seem to indicate decisions are made well before our conscious selves are aware of them.
We are far more driven by emotion & instinct then any of us care to admit.
Sounds more like where addiction plays more of a role before choice kicks in.