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The True Premise of Artificial Intelligence
Here is a short post about AI inspired by numerous recent articles — mainly dealing with the limitations of Assisted Intelligence (as seen on ChatGPT) rather than Artificial Intelligence.
Assessing recent AI efforts on the basis of ChatGPT’s answers falls short of this simple, litmus, test of true Intelligence
On Intelligence
It’s been 33 years since my first “Philosophy of Ethics” lesson by a learned specialist: I was a second-year Electronics Engineering student of teachers like Steve Furber at the University of Manchester and had just returned from kibbutz Ein Harod Ihud in Israel and felt the need to study Hebrew. So, I started the study of the Torah under Rabbi Simon Jackson at the University’s Hillel House.
There I learned for the first time that in the Torah’s intelligent, “correct” interpretation, the… “questions matter most, not the answers!”. I came to realize that this applies to dialogue and discourse on everything.
Nowadays, as I find myself around people concerned about the impact of “Artificial Intelligence”, I revert to “my” definition of Intelligence as I have yet to find a better one than my rabbi offered.
