AI and Noam Chomsky

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Classifying AI as a simple probability machine and castigating it for regurgitating data as plagiarism misses a fundamental aspect of what contemporary AI has achieved.

Specifically, ChatGPT and neural network AIs have confirmed that given enough time, complex behavior can emerge from very simple building blocks - "we are an example of what hydrogen atoms can do, given 15 billion years of cosmic evolution." to quote Carl Sagan.

The genius of modern AI was to introduce errors into the system (not always choosing the most likely outcome) this gives rise to what appears to be the very model by which life evolves, that is replication, variation, and selection.

As for being given enough time for evolution; time within the context of AI evolution has become compressed by the super-exponential growth in computing power.

It has taken 3.7 billion years of evolution from the first signs of life on planet Earth to reach a stage where you are capable of reading and understanding this. By contrast, it has taken just 100 years from the first logic gate to a computer system that we can have a conversation (of sorts) with.

Criticising AI for WHAT it is producing now, without grasping the significance of HOW it is producing its result seems to me as foolish as criticising a six-year od Shakespeare for making spelling errors and foretelling that he will never amount to much.