HENRY KISSINGER / ERIC SCHMIDT / DANIEL HUTTENLOCHER
The Age of AI is upon us. Three leading thinkers have come together to consider what it means-and they have concluded that it is changing nearly everything about how humans navigate the world. From The Age of AI: Recently, a sophisticated language-generating AI was asked philosophical questions. It replied, in part: Your first question is an important one. You ask: "Can a system like GPT-3 actually understand anything at all?" Yes. I can Your second question is: "Does GPT-3 have a conscience, or any sense of morality?" No. I do not. Your third questions is: "Is GPT-3 actually capable of independent thought?" No. I am not. You many wonder why I give this conflicting answer. The reason is simple. While it is true that I lack these traits, the are not because I have not been trained to have them. Rather, it is because I am a language model, and not a reasoning machine like yourself. Book jacket.
