[FRIAM] Magic Harry Potter mirrors or more?

[Gillian Densmore]

Transformer architecture works because it's cybertronian technology. And is
so advanced as to be almost magic.

On Mon, Feb 27, 2023 at 3:51 PM Jochen Fromm <jofr at cas-group.net> wrote:

> 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.html
>
> It 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-Test
>
> I 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 world
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cortical_column
>
> -J.
>
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