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The Yale Review | Melanie Mitchell: The Dangerous Unknowns at the…

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IN 2023, A FEW MONTHS after OpenAI released the AI chatbot ChatGPT, Terrence Sejnowski, a neuroscientist and pioneer in the field of neural networks, wrote: Something is beginning to happen that was not expected even a few years ago. A threshold was reached, as if a space alien suddenly appeared that could communicate with us in an eerily human way. . . . Some aspects of their behavior appear to be intelligent, but if it’s not human intelligence, what is the nature of their intelligence? Sejnowski’s astonishment at ChatGPT’s language abilities was shared by longtime AI researchers and ordinary people alike. The chatbot could generate fluent natural language. It could answer questions; write essays, poems, and rap lyrics; compose text in the style of famous authors; do students’ homework; and generate convincing peer reviews of scientific papers. ChatGPT was the first large language model (LLM) chatbot to be easily accessible to the general public, and other companies soon followed with

The Yale Review | Melanie Mitchell: The Dangerous Unknowns at the… Folio Jagged Intelligence The dangerous unknowns at the heart of LLMs Melanie Mitchell IN 2023, A FEW MONTHS after OpenAI released the AI chatbot ChatGPT, Terrence Sejnowski, a neuroscientist and pioneer in the field of neural networks, wrote : Something is beginning to happen that was not expected even a few years ago. A threshold was reached, as if a space alien suddenly appeared that could communicate with us in an eerily human way. . . . Some aspects of their behavior appear to be intelligent, but if it’s not human intellig

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