Ask A Genius 956: Contemporaneous AIs
Author(s): Rick Rosner and Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): Ask A Genius
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2024/06/18
Rick Rosner: So you just said that Chat GPT-3 is up now. Is that the deal? That’s Chat GPT-4.0. 4.0. So, what is it being touted as? What are the improvements over the previous version?
Scott Douglas Jacobsen: It appears to be better at analyzing and generating sound, text, and images, especially in speed.
Rosner: Everything I said about multimodality is slightly off because you can now use Chat GPT to create images. So there is some probabilistic facility where if you say, “Give me a picture of a trout with an apple in its mouth,” it’ll give you exactly that. And if you say, “Give it to me in the style of Matisse,” it’ll be able to do that. It’s not absorbing or harvesting information the way an organism would.
Jacobsen: So, it’s a weird action in reverse for the generation of text, images, and sounds. Data is statistically analyzed and then generated based on prompts. That superficial production, based on the end product of regular human productions, is…
Rosner: All right. Let’s take a look at Chat GPT-4. It still needs to be something… It’s still not thinking. Though a lot of what we do needs to be thinking. A lot of what we do is what the probabilistic models do, but that alone doesn’t get you conscious. But I’ll take a look. It still falls short of anything we call true creativity. But we’re within shouting distance of AIs. By shouting distance, I mean, what, five to eight years? Fourr to seven years of AIs that might as well be conscious. AIs have a limited amount of agency. But I’ll take a look. Thank you.
Jacobsen: Yes.
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