by Tom Bunzel, The Pulse:
Maybe we don’t have so much to worry about?
“LLMs (Large language models) aren’t even as smart as dogs, says Meta’s AI chief scientist” — the ZDNET headline.
And according to Meta’s AI chief scientist, Yann LeCun, He says:
“LLMs (like ChatGPT) are not truly intelligent because LLMs cannot understand, interact with, or comprehend reality and only rely on language training to produce an output.”
So why have Ais captured our imaginations and begun to frighten us?
I believe it’s because they simulate the intellect – and only the intellect – but we have given the formative mind so much power. As Eckhart Tolle has often pointed out, we identify so strongly with the mind that we have disconnected from many other aspects of being.
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LeCun also said not to fear an AI takeover because “there is no correlation between being smart and wanting to take over.”
But who or what is that wants to take over? We can often sense it in our bodies, like when we have a fight or flight experience. There is a survival instinct in us that makes us want to protect ourselves.
When threatened, the intellect can run wild, or we can learn to slowly become present through rhythmic breathing and connecting to what? Our volatile insides. To the feelings that we may have repressed.
AI Has No Body
What’s so important to point out about Ai is that it has no body. In many ways, it is pure mind and just a simulation of the linguistic part of the mind at that.
The mind and the way it can discern and label things give us the impression that we understand ourselves and Nature. That is the premise of science. But what do we know of ourselves?
Jacob Needleman, a philosopher whose work I greatly admire, writes in A Sense of the Cosmos:
“Western science has operated for centuries on the assumption that we can understand the universe without understanding ourselves. We are just now seeking to make the necessary connection between the general laws of nature the those of our own (inner) nature.”
That harkens back to the “Hard Problem of Consciousness”. If consciousness is not something we “have” but in fact what we ARE – which many like Eckhart Tolle believe, how can we view it objectively?
This brings up another famous quote:
“The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.” – Nikola Tesla
While Needleman speaks of the “sacred” — Tesla focuses on “non-physical phenomena” and I wonder what the relationship between these two might be?
It is interesting that science has generally relegated both of these fields to metaphysics.
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Except that this is where the dam of consciousness may be about to burst. We have had clues and many who study indigenous cultures have come to even experience things that we might consider sacred or nonmaterial.
