AI Abilities Emerging or Not? | Jeff Zweerink and Joshua Swamidass

Join Jeff Zweerink and Josh Swamidass as they discuss new discoveries taking place at the frontiers of science that have theological and philosophical implications, including the reality of God’s existence.
AI Abilities Emerging or Not?
One concern regarding the development of artificial intelligence (AI) relates to the emergence of unpredictable features that arise as the systems grow in scale. Researchers consider an “emergent ability” as something that the AI has routinely failed to accomplish but suddenly performs well as the system grows in size (either from hardware or software growth). A number of papers claiming emergent abilities populate scientific literature. However, a recent study shows that these “emergent” abilities often reflect poorly designed measurement metrics or insufficient statistics. Better metrics and statistics remove the indicators of emergence. In this episode, computational biologist and physician Josh Swamidass and astrophysicist Jeff Zweerink discuss the details surrounding this issue and offer some insights from a Christian perspective.
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LINKS & RESOURCES
Rylan Schaeffer, Brando Miranda, and Sanmi Koyejo, “Are Emergent Abilities of Large Language Models a Mirage?,” arxiv.org/abs/2304.15004
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[@johncaffo4087]

I enjoy listening to Joshua Swamidass; thank you.

[@GloballyEnglishESLtutoringSolo]

In summary, humans are essential for inputting and maintaining data across various domains. While automation and AI assist, human judgment, context, and understanding remain critical in data-related tasks .

[@ji8044]

AI is not a threat to Christianity, though of course on some level it may pose big threats in terms of government surveillance of our lives.

[@preparearoom]

Sound issues

[@GloballyEnglishESLtutoringSolo]

While it doesn’t directly address futuristic AI, its teachings encourage us to use our intelligence and creativity in ways that honor God and benefit humanity

[@bobjulie298]

Conclusions: Ai seems very powerful. In the hands of evil people it has potential to do great harm. It's learning by "listening" shows that as parents what we say around are kids can have a big impact either good or bad. Was the audio cutouts intentional to hide information from AI or people? Interesting thoughts on accuracy scoring. I am amazed how fast AI matured.

[@paulsteely1741]

Preposterous. Read Occam's Razor