>Generative AI doesn't have a coherent understanding of the world
The very headline is based on a completely faulty assumption, that AI has any capacity for understanding at all, which it doesn't. That would require self-directed reasoning and self-awareness, both of which it lacks based on any available evidence. (though there's no shortage of irrational defenders here who somehow leap to say that there's no difference between consciousness in humans and the pattern matching of AI technology today, because they happened to have a "conversation" with ChatGPT and etc).
To be honest… it’s amazing it can have any understanding given the only “senses” it has are the 1024 inputs of d_model!
Imagine trying to understand the world if you were simply given books and books in a language you had never read… and you didn’t even know how to read or even talk!
Generative AI doesn't have a coherent understanding of the world
(news.mit.edu)25 points by gmays 12 hours ago | 9 comments
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The very headline is based on a completely faulty assumption, that AI has any capacity for understanding at all, which it doesn't. That would require self-directed reasoning and self-awareness, both of which it lacks based on any available evidence. (though there's no shortage of irrational defenders here who somehow leap to say that there's no difference between consciousness in humans and the pattern matching of AI technology today, because they happened to have a "conversation" with ChatGPT and etc).
Imagine trying to understand the world if you were simply given books and books in a language you had never read… and you didn’t even know how to read or even talk!
So it’s pretty incredible it’s got this far!