How to Raise Your Artificial Intelligence: A Conversation with Alison Gopnik and Melanie Mitchell | Los Angeles Review of Books
A much better way of thinking about them is as a technology that allows humans to access information from many other humans and use that information to make decisions.
We talk about how they “hallucinate,” but hallucination isn’t really the right word. To hallucinate would mean that you recognize the difference between the truth and just a bunch of things that people have said. LLMs are not designed to make that distinction.
And if we’re going to be able to use it effectively, we’re going to have to develop the kinds of norms and regulations that we developed for other technologies.
No one knows what intelligence is, much less how it’s going to be captured in computers in the future.
the real risks we should pay attention to are not the far-off existential risks of AI agents taking over but rather the more mundane risks of misinformation and other bad stuff showing up on the internet.