[FRIAM] Magic Harry Potter mirrors or more?

[Jochen Fromm]

Terrence Sejnowski argues that the new AI super chatbots are like a magic Harry Potter mirror that tells the user what he wants to hear: "When people discover the mirror, it seems to provide truth and understanding. But it does not. It shows the deep-seated desires of anyone who stares into it". ChatGPT, LaMDA, LLaMA and other large language models would "take in our words and reflect them back to us".https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/26/technology/ai-chatbot-information-truth.htmlIt is true that large language models have absorbed unimaginably huge amount of texts, but what if our prefrontal cortex in the brain works in the same way? https://direct.mit.edu/neco/article/35/3/309/114731/Large-Language-Models-and-the-Reverse-Turing-TestI think it is possible that the "transformer" architecture is so successful because it is - like the cortical columns in the neocortex - a modular solution for the problem what comes next in an unpredictable worldhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cortical_column-J.
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