On Sun, Mar 12, 2023, 1:12 PM Lawrence Crowell < goldenfieldquaterni...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Remember no matter haw complex an algorithm it is ultimately a lot of > Boolean switching acting on what ever data is dumped into it. > > LC > No matter how complex a human brain, it is ultimately the Dirac equation acting on whatever particles are dumped into it. Jason > > On Sunday, March 12, 2023 at 11:42:12 AM UTC-5 John Clark wrote: > >> The linguist Noam Chomsky wrote what in my opinion was a very foolish >> article in the New York Times called "The False Promise of ChatGPT" in >> which he tried to simultaneously make the case that a computer could never >> do what ChatGPT can clearly already do, and that it wouldn't make any >> difference even if it could, and that it could reach false conclusions if >> it was fed false data (as if that wasn't also true for human beings), and >> that it was terrible that it didn't give its personal opinion on moral >> issues even though Chomsky would certainly criticize it even more if it did >> take such a stand. ChatGPT reads everything so somebody asked Sydney what >> him what he thought about Chomsky's article and I think the machine gave a >> pretty good rebuttal: >> >> ChatGPT's rebuttal to Chomsky >> <https://twitter.com/SebastienBubeck/status/1634009568341622784> >> >> Quantum computer expert Scott Aaronson also has some interesting things >> to say about this: >> >> The false promise of Chomskyism <https://scottaaronson.blog/> >> >> John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis >> <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> >> >> 5te >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/907f2e65-1214-4d88-838a-4d6e049459cbn%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/907f2e65-1214-4d88-838a-4d6e049459cbn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CA%2BBCJUhnHJOCgzO%2B9Qr5TbehGrPs8yLC6zy2EaJzB447w7Op8A%40mail.gmail.com.
