"The Illusion of Thinking"

Science and Technology
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“Apple researchers have found “fundamental limitations” in cutting-edge artificial intelligence models, in a paper raising doubts about the technology industry’s race to [develop ever more powerful systems.
Apple [said in a paper published at the weekend that large reasoning models (LRMs) – an advanced form of AI – faced a “complete accuracy collapse” when presented with highly complex problems.”

Well now, this is a surprise… that ‘terrifying’pace of AI development apparently hit a slight problem…
These AI “experts” are beginning to sound a bit like those fantastic “experts” back in 2020…

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#2

“If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, again”. There’s no stopping these people.

#3

… See Hubert Dreyfus - (1) What Computers Can’t Do and (2) What Computers Still Can’t Do. 1972 and 1992 respectively. I think both are available gratis on Archive.org

… yep, It (the computer) doesn’t “know” anything. It can neither assert nor propose. It can not experience nor remember. It can not interpret. It can not, as Antonio Damasio would say, “Have the feeling of what is happening”. But, and most importantly, it can not go “outside” its database.

… and no matter how many dyads are strung together to produce whatever length of dyadic chain at whatever speed is achievable … it will always be the Illusion of Thought.

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#4

All the more scarier if our politicians could be basing all strategy on AI spewing out nonsense.

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#5

As the “AI” Tech craze continues at peak levels… many substantial startups are now being exposed as a complete fabrication. Instead of revolutionary technology, they rely on overseas, underpaid workers who impersonate chatbots and “artificial intelligence” systems in order to secure massive investor funding, only to come crashing down months or years later in spectacular fashion.

Even industry leading companies like Microsoft, and Amazon are subjected to this problem, with an overall space that is now fully embracing the concept of useless, undeserved mania.

While the overall concept of Artificial intelligence certainly carries risks, and significant innovation with it, the current industry norm is anything but valid.

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#6

Ai can never have free will, Ai always has to obey a set of rules.
And now we must follow the rules as the computer takes more and more control over everything we do. It’s changing our behavior, it’s changing our language and it’s taking our free will. It’s getting more intrusive. WWW is such an accurate description, once you’re trapped in the web “I agree” it’s hard to break free.
I would not like to know how many hours I’ve been frustrated/upset when dealing with computer glitches and trying to figure out what the problem was. I would bet its over a 100 hours over the past 40 years.

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#7

I would add Federico Faggin’s book, Irreducible: Consciousness, Life, Computers, and Human Nature.

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#9

Spacetime Is The Memory Of A Self Knowing Universe | Federico Faggin. A follow-up with CPU inventor Federico Faggin on his quantum theory of consciousness in more detail and outlines some of his novel ideas, to be presented in his upcoming new book.

For me our world is not a construct but God’s world. In this interview they touch upon Christianity but typically from a western perspective. I do wonder if both men would be different influenced if they understood humanity did not inherit “original sin” in perpetuity but death of the physical body. For me, that little tibit of knowledge made a huge difference I would have never known if not for Joseph.

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#10

… If it is in fact God’s World, as so many claim, then he is an absent landlord doing a terrible job. Let us place the blame where it should be. God either will not or can not remedy the current situation. Which is it? If the first then his claims about his desires for man are lies, if the second then his non-omnis are showing.

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#11

Loved your paragraph, under the above pictured video.
Its perspective; regarding the fall of Man.
What if… ?
Indeed, that would be even more revealing.
[haven’t yet watched, but on my to do list]

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#12

God as a Marvel character and or a landlord that restores your house to pristine condition after renters in a rage of fit have detroyed the house. I suppose many people see god like this, I suppose many seeing themselves in the mirror as god.

I never belonged to any “denomination”, I don’t trust them never have. I do believe there is more between earth and its ceiling then hot air. What I see is a screwed up world I am trying to make sense of and live in to the best of my abilities. Free will, responsability in relation to my personhood and yes belief has a lot to do with it, not a magician flicking a wand.

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#13

In its core, computers have only two operations, true or false. It lacks all the subtleties of a wave. Its the same problem as with the squaring of a circle, there will allways be gaps. Analog computers could be the solution to immitate intelligence.

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We are at a time where you have CLEAR sides to pick. That is how I view it. I have lost enough people around me that I questioned Him at one point but I realized that they had choices.

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