Socires-Professor Carmody Grey wrote the Weekend Essay in the Financial Times, about how AI companies use the term "intelligent" and other human characteristics for their products. LLMs are increasingly attributed human traits by companies such as Anthropic and OpenAI, including in the research publication "On the Biology of a Large Language Model" by Anthropic. But according to Grey, investigating a LLM model in biological terms is a category error. Consciousness and intelligence are human because they are inextricably linked to life in reality. A human being is not just an information processing system, but a being with needs, fears and desires. Read the full article ft.com.
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A quote from the article:
Despite the continuous deployment of the language of emotion, biology and neurology, the disanalogy between brains and computers are incomparable bigger than the analogys. Human consciousness is not accidental but constitutionally organic. Living and engineered systems are different not in degree but in kind. Real intelligence is inextricable from organic empowerment, from being a feeling organization passing through time and space shaped in every moment by its needs, feelings, desires. Functional information-processing taking place in an atemporal mathematical space is so literally unlike the lived intelligence of a human being that to call it "intelligence" at all is to completely false its nature. "Artificial intelligence" is a highly consistent misnomer.