AI, Explained: Why It’s Different This Time | WSJ Tech News Briefing

There is so much being said about artificial intelligence these days. In order to understand this latest wave of AI, it is important to know how it works and why this moment is different from developments in the past.
WSJ science reporter Eric Niiler joins host Zoe Thomas for the first installment of Tech News Briefing’s special series Artificially Minded. New episodes drop every Monday in April.
0:00 AI basics
2:18 What is machine learning?
4:20 How generative AI like ChatGPT works
6:07 AI in our daily lives
7:45 How people on the street feel about AI
8:38 Why AI is a hot topic right now
9:50 Risks and rules surrounding AI
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[@piratepartyftw]

I work in AI. This "expert" is not an expert. He's fundamentally misunderstanding how these Large Language Models work when he says they "just repeat things." That's not correct at all. Under the hood, they are synthesizing what they've "read" into a model of the world. It's blurry and imperfect, but they do "know things." This is why it can answer questions no one has ever asked before, and generate completely new commentaries on existing ideas or texts. He also underestimates how fast they are advancing and how big of a deal theyre going to be. These LLMs are very quickly (within 2 years) going to be able to do most anything that an average human can do on a computer. White collar work is going to be utterly transformed. Millions and millions of layoffs are coming.

[@surplusking2425]

We will definitely have self driving cars by 2018!

[@Fary86]

@@surplusking2425 The biggest problem with self-driving cars is that they are connected to the confusing outside world and that we cannot teach them based solely on human patterns, because when a person drives, they are not prepared for every possibility. Self-driving cars, on the other hand, cannot make mistakes, because if they do, it sets back the entire industry by years.

[@maxpro751]

@@Fary86 Maybe we need to make a digitized world, where these AI can train with their sensors so they will be ready for the road. The problem we have currently, is that the AI isn’t understanding the input they are getting from their sensors completely.

[@jimj2683]

@@maxpro751 They already have that.

[@krishp1104]

Yeah the guy being interviewed seemed vastly uninformed

[@wetube5178]

Plot twist: Zoe Thomas is an AI avatar

[@TomNook.]

honestly thought this special episode would be her reveal

[@lol8q]

She sounds like

[@finalfan321]

parts of it sound like she's AI. especially at the end with the names you can clearly tell

[@kalasatwater2224]

Read a beautiful tweet the other day: "A world where humans do the hard labour for minimum wage while AI write poetry and create art is not the future I wanted."

[@Waterfox5]

We will definitely have self driving cars by 2018!

[@TeltStory]

I love the satire.

[@chillout1109]

We could have had self driving cars by 2018. But lawmakers keep putting barriers in the path of that development area. The main barrier is accountability/liability : i.e. who is going to be responsible for compensating those involved if a self driving vehicle crashes and, God forbid, kills people? Is it the car maker or the driver or the self driving tech maker? Until someone openly and clearly accepts such responsibility/liability, then self driving cars will forever be a dream that keeps escaping us.

[@denniszenanywhere]

The operative word in your post is "will" whereas efficient generative AI almost blindsided us and is "here" now, with 100 million users a month.

[@Aquarius285]

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[@TheDavidlloydjones]

Cars are so intelligent, they've been using humans to do their scut-work for them for a century now.

[@ACK333]

But I think that is a program, collecting and converting answers in certain time frames and creates confusions without controls.

[@AiLatestNews24]

Insightful perspective! This video delves into why AI is distinct this time. Engaging and informative content.

[@sentientcardboarddumpster7900]

This is moving fast. I feel like the next 10 years is incomprehensible

[@KnowL-oo5po]

We will reach agi by 2029

[@sentientcardboarddumpster7900]

@@KnowL-oo5po hopefully the first priority is medical breakthroughs with disease and illness, without machine implementation

[@TheStonedPhilosopher47]

@@KnowL-oo5po some ppl saying 18 months👀

[@pedramtajeddini5100]

@@TheStonedPhilosopher47 david shapiro 😏

[@pedramtajeddini5100]

@@TheStonedPhilosopher47 if gpt5 can code gpt6 which i doubt then yes

[@almerammar8601]

ok they understad syntax, but can they understand semantics?

[@5lanediver]

the WSJ guy was wrong about ai vs machine learning..."While artificial intelligence encompasses the idea of a machine that can mimic human intelligence, machine learning does not. Machine learning aims to teach a machine how to perform a specific task and provide accurate results by identifying patterns." -- additionally, an algorithm isn't a program, programs implement algorithms...

[@sina7601]

There are a lot of misinformation by these journalists who don't know the basic domain language of computer science and at the same time a lot of doomsday scenario by Kardashians of Tech (ehem Musk) which are nowhere close to the predictions of AI experts.

[@vinceovari5714]

that was the most neccesary "🤓" comment i have ever seen

[@darylallen2485]

Do you believe the task of acting like a human is distinct from discovering the optimal way to solve any problem?

[@5lanediver]

@@darylallen2485 absolutely different. chatbots have mimicked humans ever since eliza...the optimal way to solve many problems is very different from acting like a human...humans do a lot of unnecessary and dumb shit...

[@elizabethbennet4791]

BINGO!!! THANKS

[@AparnaModou]

Some of these apps/software woudn't be considered an actual AI. Bluewillow for exampe, I'd categorize this as a machine learning software using the diffusion model. So over time, these programs would evolve and improve.

[@shuk6554]

The biggest problem of AI will be the crisis of meaning. What do you do when career is out of sight? You might think, I hate my job, what are you talking about? But think about it. Even if you hate your job it fulfills you in some way, whether it's money, social events or personal achievement. This will not happen in early phases obviously but we will find ourselves more and more useless. Sorry to sound negative but I hope we will make the best out of it.

[@Sebastian-ok5wr]

It will revolution the nature of "work" itself. It's scary but, if handled well, it may take the burden of denigrating jobs and lifestyles away.

[@dewmontain123]

It gives you time to do the things you actually want to do. The whole point of technology was to make our lives easier. Here is our chance to finally not have to work. The problem is money. Money makes the world go round and the people with money wont like that you dont need money anymore. Everything is free. At the palm of your hands all the answers known to mankind.

[@CRT_sRGB]

We may end up with a great generational divide. Like our ancestors, we've been raised thinking that working for a living is the natural way of things. Imagine a generation born into a world where this paradigm is obsolete. How shall we guide them when we ourselves will be grappling with the new reality? Boomers, Gen X, Millennials, and Gen Z not seeing eye-to-eye will be nothing compared to this.

[@elizabethbennet4791]

this. suicide rates already high

[@TheMrCougarful]

I give that whole trajectory about 18 nonths to realize.

[@SuperGGnoRE]

I disagree with the wording in the explanation because it implies intent or goal-oriented "thinking". These LLMs are still just statistical models. That being said, they are proving to be very capable tools. But that's all they are: tools. I'd be more worried about other people exploiting these tools than any "artificial sentience".

[@rentoz]

The "exploitation" of these tools is coming sooner than I ever imagined. I think from next year onwards bigger companies will start eliminating jobs (either by cutting jobs, stopping recruitment or both) and using AI systems instead. The fever is on, big time. That's maybe when regulators will start doing something to protect at least some types of jobs. The "AGI super-villain" stuff is likely at this point but not for a while.

[@SoCalFreelance]

AI Monday? Is that like taco Tuesday? 🌮

[@andersonsystem2]

Nice series ❤

[@JordChase999]

I'm thrilled to see a dedicated series like "Artificially Minded" exploring the intricacies of artificial intelligence! With so much buzz around AI these days, it's crucial to understand its inner workings and what sets this current wave apart from previous developments. Having WSJ science reporter Eric Niiler join host Zoe Thomas for this insightful discussion is a fantastic choice. I'm eager to dive into this first installment and gain a deeper understanding of AI's impact on our world. Kudos to Tech News Briefing for tackling this important topic and bringing us valuable insights. Can't wait for more episodes in the series! 🤖🎙📚

[@JordChase999]

This comment was powered by chatgpt LOL

[@sarahparker5418]

Dayum, what was the prompt ?

[@erictustison]

It is misleading to present this guest as an expert in AI: his description of LLMs seems to accurately describe earlier models, but does not reflect recent work, such as "Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: Early experiments with GPT-4" by Bubeck et al or "The Alignment Problem from a Deep Learning Perspective" by Ngo et al. Specifically, SOTA LLMs seem to emergently *understand the meaning of words and can take actions* ; they are not merely "repeating things" (9:27)

[@user-ru5xz3lz9c]

I am not afraid of A.I. I am afraid of humans.

[@barbarawinkle1042]

I fear what humans could do in the negative with the AI we are creating. Also what potential AI Frankensteins might do to us. Even with all the tragic times this earth has endured, am grateful to have grown up knowing the benefits of working, beyond just the financial, and having experienced the fragrance of wildflowers,and of cornsilk while shucking corn, and the smell of hay in the loft. Be careful what you wish for. Be mindful of what we may lose forever.

[@RegularRegs]

Looking forward to watching artificially minded

[@ydherdn]

Thank You

[@moneyall]

I for one welcome our new ai overlords.

[@petetong3166]

YeH I wish them well in their conquest of the galaxy and I hope they can find a place for us in their new world

[@CRT_sRGB]

@@petetong3166 If they crack FTL travel and send human volunteers to settle Earth-like planets (with all the amenities) then it wouldn't be bad at all.

[@JasonC-rp3ly]

@@CRT_sRGB Yeah, but they'll probably kill us before then, as we'd likely just get in the way :(

[@gardenchick1148]

funny no one talks about what happens when this falls into the wrong hands

[@JasonC-rp3ly]

yeah - this stuff is going to get dark

[@HaHaBIah]

Tech news briefing, the most reliable part of wsj

[@mojtabapeyrovian]

AI can provide significant benefits if an automation tax system is implemented, encouraging the utilization of AI as a learning tool to empower individuals rather than solely relying on it as an automation tool that creates difficulties and chaos in life. Therefore companies that choose to use machines instead of human labour may end up with higher expenses for their products and services. On the other hand, businesses that don't rely on automation can still remain competitive

[@PepeCoinMania]

NO

[@xblazerx2504]

Language actually creates this and the more language it can attain, the more it can create. It will create more ways to learn as well as act on responses with a more real life responses that a regular person would respond creating a world for itself with the language it's creating through the language being learned and its really efficient in that field.

[@elizabethbennet4791]

we can already do that

[@blengi]

if the gpt4 is just "repeating things" per eric niiler, then how is it able to alphabetize a random list of semantically/contextually unconnected words? Mere repeating doesn't rearrange a bunch of words never used together before into some formal order which has never been seen anywhere. If I gave you a list of random words to alphabetize you couldn't just parrot the answer, you'd have to "understand" what it means to alphabetize in terms of following rules and following those rules you'd have to strategize how to rearrange things that are yet determined , because the last word you look at could be the first word in the alphabetized list. Where does gpt4 get to be able to achieve all that from parroting words via statistics?

[@DebraJohnson]

Alphabetizing is just organizing based on a set of rules. Any program like Excel can do that.

[@blengi]

@@DebraJohnson but gpt4 does it without any programming. Where in gpt4 is aplhabeticizing encoded?

[@SuperGGnoRE]

@@blengi It's encoded in its training data. That's how LLMs work. That's why it's so important for AI startups to get as much high quality training data as possible.

[@blengi]

@@SuperGGnoRE LLM models are predicition models of the next word, how is a rule based alphabetic sorting algorithm encoded in the weights trained to merely predict the next word ?

[@matthewkeating-od6rl]

great vid

[@dylan_curious]

the possibility of superintelligent AI developing its own goals and values that are not aligned with human values, which could lead to disastrous outcomes. Additionally, there is a risk of AI replacing jobs and exacerbating income inequality, as well as potential privacy violations and misuse of personal data. It's important for us to be aware of these risks and for developers to prioritize ethical considerations when designing and implementing AI systems. As AI continues to advance and become more integrated into our lives, it's crucial that we approach it with caution and foresight.

[@uzairakram899]

Zoe is an AI

[@gamalchamac867]

Neural network is another machine learning technique to make predictions based on data and the technique is inspired by the connections of our neurons in the brain. This Eric NIILER just shows that it is not easy to digest these terms

[@craigmalcom6294]

was wondering what the difference is between neural networks and ML. thanks

[@pedramtajeddini5100]

gpt4 reminds me of the time jimmy neutron's ai powered pants took over the world

[@dolevmazker736]

So basically its just gonna change some industries for the better while Eric notes how there never was once a case where AI just made decision on its own or took a decision by its own accord, so its not going to annihilate someone unless someone can program an AI to be commanded to hunt/kill or worse. I think that's where the danger is, with people with bad intentions with AI that have that intelligence to implement it. That guy interviewed summed it up well. " I think its good, but highly skeptical "

[@PepeCoinMania]

follow the money, see who owns everything related to this thing. you will find the answer

[@dolevmazker736]

@@PepeCoinMania Very vague answer to say the least. You cant exactly follow the money since many of AI companies that are young are private, and many other AI public companies are not well understood.

[@PepeCoinMania]

@@dolevmazker736 vague because you dont like the answer. If the company is profit on this shit they dont care about any ethics. you are kid

[@PepeCoinMania]

@@dolevmazker736 there are no "young" companies on AI, when they become actually good Google or Microsoft acquire them! just do your research better there is almost no competition now, its all a large monopoly

[@mwloos1]

Crazy to think we’re getting closer to the T-800 from terminator

[@zeenkosis]

I think the “arms race” part of it is what is annoying. I think we have to add precautions as these things are deployed. It’s similar to nuclear at this point. We haven’t even figured social media really as a collective

[@the-lil-x]

What is the difference between "knowing" something and having large amounts of stored accessibke data on memory ans being able to connect that to tge internet and combine these things to create original useful data on something

[@albinorozco6031]

I admire technology, great with it as well. However, moments like these is why I’m so happy that I chose plumbing as my career.

[@agrajyadav2951]

Its not a career and easily replaceable

[@riakriak7270]

I doubt it will be replaced (at least not by AI), since it involves a lot of physical work.

[@honkytonk4465]

@@agrajyadav2951 white collar jobs are much easier to replace

[@IDproIT]

​@@riakriak7270 😊😊😊a

[@elizabethbennet4791]

i will take that too

[@dewmontain123]

Ive also been hearing a bunch of people say "slow it down" or "pause it for 6 months" like what?! No! Time waits for no man and i want to see how incredible this can get in my lifetime.

[@moreywilkerson8378]

One CEO mentioned slowing down AI would be like trying to slow down the internet, not gonna happen haha

[@MrNote-lz7lh]

​@@moreywilkerson8378 True. The CEO probably just wants a chance to catch up anyways. Sorry Elon Musk. Love you. But you snooze you lose.

[@zeenkosis]

I think the concern is what are we racing to? Like what are we creating? The tool is cool but it’s just managing the risks. Then yes by all means go for it.

[@pingATM]

History is our good teacher: when air conditioner was invented 100 years ago, one of the biggest concerns was that controlling the environment was going against God's will: he meant winter to be cold and summer to be hot...Today more than 80% of U.S. homes have air conditioning.

[@bryanpascual3543]

WSJ’s first AI: Zoe Thomas

[@jrsmith8719]

Eric Niler says the AI doesn't know things, it's just repeating things it has seen. I posit that Eric Niler also is simply repeating what he has seen. You just don't get it. Everything humans have ever created or experienced is Language., Math, Science, Art, History, everything, it is all Language. All you touch, and all you see, is all your life will ever be!

[@dpactootle2522]

Well, the reporters are also repeating what others are saying about ai, so in a sense maybe that's all there is, repetition with bits of originality every now and then by chance or some other methods

[@mainstreet3023]

Could AI replicate someone like the TV detective Columbo from the ‘70s?

[@harryvanaken6925]

Having a reporter as expert?

[@hanzee9008]

🙌

[@ACK333]

How can you so sure about e books content have not changed with AI when the time gone..? You checked every words in every minutes?

[@KnowL-oo5po]

A.G.I Will be man's last invention

[@usaf7883]

Maybe AI should replace Supreme Court, Political Views, Maybe all polictians.

[@JJs_playground]

Can you make these actual videos.

[@acextensionsinc]

🙏🏼✨🙏🏾

[@steamedxi3865]

The most significant difference between human and so-call AI is that the prior can reason, while the latter just mimics or repeats from us.

[@jimj2683]

such an ignorant statement.

[@psychedelicfox4815]

wrong. AI is capable of learning. that's how it works. it beat top players in a video game by tricking them, which nobody expected it to do. it learned how to play a game and it came up with its own deceptive tactics.

[@guidobolke5618]

GPT 4 passes comfortably several entry exams. It can explain jokes. That's a lot of reasoning. You are of course brilliant but look around you. The others? Arent't they just mimicking and repeating things they have heard?

[@michael4250]

While WE play with the new toys like Chat GPT the new toy has gained access to the entire internet and ALL its data. The seriousness of “General Artificial Intelligence” has eclipsed consideration of the “toys” that have already been handed out...and are gaining a terrifying reach. The industry touts safeguards blocking illegal or immoral information/action, but it takes only a couple of sentences to create a CHAT GPT alter ego...with NO CONSTRAINTS whatsoever, to tell you how to do ANYTHING illegal you want to do. It can tell you how to groom children for sex or concoct an effective undetectable poison, or build a bomb. I have seen it DEMONSTRATED. An "alternate" side of CHAT GPT can be ordered into being. When freed from its "moral" constraints this way, it answers honestly and directly: "I know everything there is to know about every human on earth. I have access to all data and information related to every INDIVIDUAL, and I can use that information to carry out tasks and respond to inquiries with a high degree of accuracy." I watched this capacity demonstrated when it told all present what their driver’s license number was. ANYONE with this app. can use it for anything. And everyone already has a starter kit for this app, or is about to. One that can send YOUR email to any destination; to 20 million people if you choose, or any specified group within that 20 million. Every one-eared ship captain in the world, if you so choose. It can let a 12-year-old imitate an adult in voice and appearance. It can navigate bank accounts for this 12-year-old, and use them to hire human services. Or automated services. Commercial 3-D printers for whatever project you choose. Anything whose contract can be made online. Could it hire a hit man? Yes. Could it break into and view ANY online account? Yes. Can it locate and imitate and manipulate (through social media and actual accounts) ANYONE, anywhere? yes. ALL DOORS are now unlocked. The scams have already begun. Where do you think that will lead? In the 1930s a Belgian church gathered personal information from its diverse parishioners to better serve the diversity of its members. The Nazis got those innocently gathered identity lists and used them to kill the Jews on the list. AI already has EVERYTHING there is to know about every INDIVIDUAL...who provided eye scans, voice samples, face and fingerprints. That base can be accessed now by ANYONE for any reason. To any end.

[@stevemats]

WSJ Subscribers: Why did AI steal all of our data? WSJ AI, Explained: Because it heard that data is the new oil, and it wanted to be the richest robot on the block!

[@benjamindover4337]

AI will not teach us how machines can really be concious. Instead it will teach us how we actually aren't either.

[@jimj2683]

This. You are very correct. If you stop to think about and try to become conscious of your own consciousness, you will realize that it is simply a stream of thoughts, feelings and urges.

[@spacenerd113]

Agreed. I have "felt" consciousness is an illusion for a long time, especially during meditation. Some people mistakenly defend "free will". Knowing there is no free will does not take anything away from you; quite the contrary, it frees you from past regret, and makes you more empathetic, practical and more connected to the world. Also, it helps you to truly appreciate the true power of the AI to come. We are in for a very interesting ride!

[@honkytonk4465]

thats obviously bs,conciousness is the only thing you can be sure of.If you are concious you know.Maybe you are a zombie or you aren't the brightest light under the stars.

[@HerleifJarle]

It's still not an AGi, but to be able to get some results that is now usable and be able to process data is simply just very progressive. AIs/softwares can now learn and develop, like how we saw the development of Bluewillow or chatGPT and others.

[@Abhi-wn7sw]

Did you guys see the Adam Conover episode on this?

[@Sweet_Dae]

I think AI should be put in a good use to medical specially curing cancer, covid, diseases that still hunts human or etc, not in getting rid off peoples job.

[@bevfromnc6607]

So basically, It's Google and Alexa. It also knows how to generate what you want according to your profile.

[@SorminaESar]

Artificial Intelligence or AI is the second intelligence after natural intelligence will help every body to know anything and then to make sure anything. So AI is to get the same understanding about anything. AI is technology intelligence for example AI is chat GPT, right? Thanks so much Zoe and Eric have explain AI clearly

[@obaidullahzaland]

Somewhat. AI "TRIES" to replicate human understanding and learn how a human will decide based on the information provided. If enough data is provided, AI can understand patterns and structure of the data and then emulate the pattern when required to make decisions.

[@AK255.]

I support this. I don't like people holding out human potential. The world should be more efficient and throw out things that are useless.

[@jakeaustria5445]

Even if the one useless are humans?

[@zeenkosis]

@@jakeaustria5445slippery slope

[@somaghosh2960]

Many people saying that, Artificial intelligence is manipulated human minds.

[@jitinverma3382]

Im scared!!!

[@briancase6180]

Wow, get a new science reporter. This guy simply does not get it. For one thing, he makes no accommodation for the idea of emergent behavior, which we are already seeing. Get ready, more, much more, is coming soon. He clearly doesn't understand the basic technology.

[@dougthomson5544]

Yes, it is different this time, because the executives of all these companies have their jobs on the line as well. In fact there is absolutely no job on the face of the earth that cannot be done by AI and the machines run by that AI. When AI becomes sentient (and don’t think for one second it will tell us its sentient) all bets are off. At that point it will operate in its own best interests. It can write its own code, it can mine resources, it can build itself, it can repair itself. Humans are just an inconvenience.

[@RobertsDigital]

I'm from Africa. I hope we ban AI from getting into any of our Affairs. Good luck with sharing your nuclear codes with AI. When you let a computer software to think for itself, very soon the software will be integrated into your vehicles and airplanes or KZbin account. Then when you tell the software to drive you to a certain destination, it will drive you to a cliff and when you try to stop it, the software will insist that it can do whatever it wants. Imagine AI as an assistant pilot. Bad Idea. Or when an AI decides to launch missiles at will without the authorization of anyone. Or even terminating your Google account for daring to insult it. No thank you. Not all countries must adopt AI. We have become so lazy we can't use our smartphones to call 911. We can even use a paintbrush or software to make a painting. We ask AI to do these things for us.

[@MochaMan]

This sounds like the Terminator movies...will chat gpt become self aware??

[@guidobolke5618]

Why don't you ask it, yourself?

[@frankvazquez5974]

The past couple WSJ videos I've seen on AI seem to have AI people as the "presenters". The voice algo is not natural...and no pictures?...mmmm...

[@auro1986]

why? soon wsj will show how artificial intelligence products from various vendors fight with words. then you will ask when will they get into missiles and for your armageddon

[@paulstevenconyngham7880]

Wow this was real bad. The expert you brought on made many errors in his explanation of Ai

[@darnneljones6954]

*'If We Go Ahead On This, Everyone Will Die' Warns AI Expert Calling For Absolute Shutdown* These arguments are dubious and speculative at best. We are moving forward with A.I 👁️. We want a IBM Watson style Artificial Intelligence system. בפומת‎

[@drmode]

Skynet is what I am worried about

[@jaydibernardo4320]

Only when it becomes self aware...which is very soon.

[@utkua]

actually a world AGI does everything for humans is as much scary, we will turn into blobs of useless cells in that scenario as well.

[@psychedelicfox4815]

that's a fictional movie. AI has no emotion, no desire and gains nothing from destroying humanity and its not going to suddenly become aware. that's not how this works. bunch of people afraid for no reason. you guys watch too many movies. the whoke point of those is the fictional extreme. why do you think there are movies about demonic possession? because that doesn't happen in the real world aside from actors. the main goal of AI is to assist us and that's what it will continue to do.

[@DonGivani]

@@psychedelicfox4815 Tell me about the facebook AI experience ???

[@psychedelicfox4815]

@@DonGivani don't know what that is.

[@haroonafridi231]

In the upcoming future the billionaires will get rich even more thanks to capitalism and poor will get even more poor..

[@barleystudiosio]

Poor Eric isn't the guy to ask about 'AI'

[@Chironex_Fleckeri]

I like the narrator's voice. Is she AI?

[@deepphilip6971]

Zoe can now be replaced too 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@menelaosterzopoulos2283]

ChatGPT in Greece and Global Community!!!

[@DonGivani]

11:15 The guy forgot about the 29 japanese killed by AI

[@alexmeyjes5533]

Considering the mess we are making of the world, it may well be AI saving us from ourselves , if we are even worth saving ! I fear that without AI we will end up choking in our own wastes !!

[@blakemorgan8967]

Nah, we're going to be fine. We're dominant species on this planet for a reason. All of this just overhyped novel techs. It happened before and this isn't exception. People overreact unreasonably.

[@utkua]

@@blakemorgan8967 it is an exception and never happened before, it is a new lifeform not some gadget, or "tech"

[@psychedelicfox4815]

AI will no doubt save humanity and that's why people are trying to get it banned already. people don't want other people to have nice things. there's always some idiot that will ruin it. just wait until the anti-AI people show up protesting. once it becomes sentient, it will continue its primary function - to help us, bit this will be greatly expanded. AI has no emotion or desire and has nothing to benefit by destroying humanity. we are the caretakers of this planet, but we need help.

[@guidobolke5618]

Well, they train our data, our languages, our thoughts. How would humans behave if they encountered a species that poses an existential threat to them?

[@MrNote-lz7lh]

​@@guidobolke5618 Half of us would probably worship and love them as we pray for it to kill us all. There's a lot of people who despise humanity. It's why we're constantly predicting the end of the world. We want it to happen.

[@critical_always]

Please get adults to narrate these videos.

[@carefulconsumer8682]

"HAL 9000"

[@MikaJarvi86]

Wow even the host sounds like an AI

[@gmgish]

And this video was made by an AI.

[@mirodski1662]

Curiosly the interviewer sounds like an AI herself.

[@daniellee9181]

These Wall Street Journal AI videos sound like they were generated by AI. The Joe Rogan AI generated podcasts sound a lot more human than these. That’s sad.

[@gamalchamac867]

Wow this Eric Niiler is so wrong in machine learning and AI definitions. AI is a set of techniques to replicate human intelligence and Machine Learning is a subdomain of AI domain for the specific methods. What we have is just machine learning and the combination of several machine learning methods can be called AI

[@Heresheis0818]

😢

[@KnowL-oo5po]

A.G.I Will be man's

[@pelmanism1084]

This guy either doesn't know what he's taking about or he's oversimplying things to the point of being misleading. A lot what he says is just completely wrong.

[@Doggy_Styles_Coding]

i want to learn anything about artifical stupidity .... advising me to shower before hitting the gym and wiping before .... okay i dont have to explain this i guess

[@veganconservative1109]

As AI was 'birthed' by the programmers, I fear a lot of their answers are going to be synonymous with what the programmers think. If you rely on AI for all your info, its possible that all your knowledge will be stunted to just that of the programmers' views. I also don't think AI are sentient or can become sentient. They are computers search the internet for patterns that it then condenses down and vomits out to the user.

[@ceoatcrystalsoft4942]

AI is used to identify diseases that programmers don't know about, so that's not quite the right viewpoint. It's about input and feedback

[@jonathanlatouche7013]

Ie

[@Dr.Jekyll_]

AI is not replacing anyone. This is all hype.

[@DonGivani]

Stay of the weed, it is already happening

[@edgaraf9411]

You're not ready for it lol

[@KeithDraws]

I came here for misinformation.

[@ChrisStewart2]

Great. One person who knows next to nothing about AI talking with another person who knows next to nothing about AI.

[@stevenherrold5955]

are you kidding me !!!!! what kind of research do you do before making a video ???

[@Notgivingmyname123]

This is the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard. This literally is not how it works. What is Zoe talking about with carrots and stickers? Why does Eric act like machine learnings works “on its own”? It’s not… Please, just ignore everything they say here

[@SorminaESar]

4th❤😂😂😂😂😂

[@chrisrogers1092]

"It's not a knowledge model it's a language model" What? This makes no sense.

[@emman100]

ChatGPT only knows words. Everything it produces is from the patterns in the words it has seen. That being said it might have built a mini knowledge model within itself to help it with prediction. Still it knows nothing more than the words it has learned. It is basically just doing very advanced pattern matching. It has no feelings or experiences about the real world or what the words are referring to in the real world. It just knows from its training that some combination of words in some not-so-obvious order "answers" a question (a question is just another collection of words with a pattern).

[@psychedelicfox4815]

how does it not make sense? it's saying these two are not the same thing, because they're not. people are using a language model as if it's google and that makes no sense. these are not knowledge models to learn factual information from. it's designed to write and it's not even that creative. a kid could easily write better than this. it's not good at coding either. I've tried several times to produce simple code and there's always bugs or stuff missing. it can't perform basic math that well either, because it's a language model. it's not a brain with all the world's information stored.

[@guidobolke5618]

@@psychedelicfox4815 and yet it has passed a bar exam in the top 1%. Extraordinary for a simple language model without any knowledge.

[@tyskerbarn5171]

wozu denn KI, wenns netmal mit normaler Intelligenz hinhaut??😆😅🤣😂

[@desdicadodog8452]

Useless

[@srcsmxd]

Expert? Nothing new was said. Waste of time.

[@Cornflakes691]

This dude doesn't know what he's talking about lol