by Tom Bunzel, The Pulse:

Maybe we don’t have so much to worry about?

“LLMs (Large language models) aren’t even as smart as dogs, says Meta’s AI chief scientist” — the ZDNET headline.

And according to Meta’s AI chief scientist, Yann LeCun, He says:

“LLMs (like ChatGPT) are not truly intelligent because LLMs cannot understand, interact with, or comprehend reality and only rely on language training to produce an output.”

So why have Ais captured our imaginations and begun to frighten us?

I believe it’s because they simulate the intellect – and only the intellect – but we have given the formative mind so much power.  As Eckhart Tolle has often pointed out, we identify so strongly with the mind that we have disconnected from many other aspects of being.