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Baldur Bjarnason

“Does current AI represent a dead end? | BCS”

bcs.org/articles-opinion-and-r

> From the perspective of software engineering, current AI systems are unmanageable, and as a consequence their use in serious contexts is irresponsible.

Been saying this for a long long while and I highly doubt anybody who is still using these systems is ever going to change their mind, but you gotta try.

Also, I’ll bet the original title of the piece was way more forceful and was watered down into a question

www.bcs.orgDoes current AI represent a dead end?Eerke Boiten, Professor of Cyber Security at De Montfort University Leicester, explains his belief that current AI should not be used for serious applications.
Cassandrich

@baldur Absolutely and anyone who understood 5% of the subject matter could have told them this 2-3 years ago. But media preferred listening to hype peddlers who were necessarily unreliable sources rather than folks with domain knowledge & no conflicts of interest.

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Zimmie

@dalias @baldur We’ve known what is currently sold as “AI” is a dead end since at least 1956 with Chomsky’s paper Three Models for the Description of Language.

I can’t imagine how frustrating it must be for him having published on the topic for twice as long as a lot of the proponents of LLMs as AI have been alive.

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Cassandrich

@bob_zim @baldur The old Chomsky concept of AI is bogus too. Language ≠ intelligence.

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Zimmie

@dalias @baldur Sure, but my point is LLMs are statistical grammar. They get syntax right almost all the time, but they don’t make any attempt at semantics.

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Cassandrich

@bob_zim @baldur Right. Statistical models and Chomsky are the opposite directions of machine language processing with their own strengths and weaknesses. But neither is intelligence because language processing isn't intelligence.

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