I think that any credible argument against this is going to center not on AI or LLMs, but on what we know or believe about human intelligence. I posted the following on Twitter: You haven’t expanded AI to replicate human thought. You’ve only reduced your estimation of human thought down to whatever you happen to be able to train your software monkey to do. Just like the ape communication researchers of the previous century. There is another more sinister side to this, which is the suspicion I have that the development of AI hasn’t even been primarily technological: it’s been biological. Humans have been deliberately bred to be dumber over the past half century or more in order to make AI look good. There’s considerable evidence for this. Your average rural American farmer of the latter half of the 19th century had a better reading level & larger vocabulary than the vast majority of Americans today. Read the Lincoln Douglas debates & compare them to the 2016 or 2020 debates. So, in short, computers aren’t getting smarter: humans are getting dumber.
I think that any credible argument against this is going to center not on AI or LLMs, but on what we know or believe about human intelligence. I posted the following on Twitter:
You haven’t expanded AI to replicate human thought. You’ve only reduced your estimation of human thought down to whatever you happen to be able to train your software monkey to do. Just like the ape communication researchers of the previous century.
There is another more sinister side to this, which is the suspicion I have that the development of AI hasn’t even been primarily technological: it’s been biological. Humans have been deliberately bred to be dumber over the past half century or more in order to make AI look good.
There’s considerable evidence for this. Your average rural American farmer of the latter half of the 19th century had a better reading level & larger vocabulary than the vast majority of Americans today. Read the Lincoln Douglas debates & compare them to the 2016 or 2020 debates.
So, in short, computers aren’t getting smarter: humans are getting dumber.