COME A.I. CONE : PRECIS

 

The more powerful A.I. gets the less humans understand about it - but perhaps we shouldn't judge ourselves too harshly for that. As it turns out, A.I. doesn't even understand itself.

The models were pretty bad at introspection.  Explaining their chain of thought, step by step, made them perform worse at some tasks.

Emmy Liu, a doctoral candidate at Cargegie Mellon on the research team, told me. But then, that's how people are, too. Mr. Wolfram wrote : Show yourself a picture of a cat, and ask :

'' Why is that a cat? Maybe you'd start saying, '' Well, I see its pointy ears, etc. But it's not very easy to explain how you recognized the image as a cat.'' 

It's one thing to honour the mystery of the human brain, but quite another to admit that  artificial intelligence - both creative and conniving - is slipping away from our understanding.

QUOTE OF THE DAY : '' A company ought to be a community, a community that you belong to, like a village. Nobody owns a village. You are a member and you have rights.

Shareholders will become financiers, and they will get rewarded according to the risk they assume, but they're not to be called owners.

And workers won't be workers, they'll be citizens, and they will have rights. And those rights will include a share in the profits that they have created. ''

Charles Handy as quoted in Strategy + Business, a Pricewaterhouse Cooper's publication [ Fall 2003 ]. Handy, a management theorist, died on Friday at age 92.

The World Students Society thanks Peter Coy for his opinion.