The AI in Her was able to pass as a full person. But, what we’re seeing now is that humans are not good at understanding the difference between a real person and a program designed to simulate a human.
IMO it’s like the mirror test which is designed to see if an animal recognizes itself in the mirror, or thinks it’s another animal. The LLM breakthrough is basically that we can now have a computer program that is in no way intelligent or self-aware, but it is able to simulate those things well enough to fool many / most humans.
Sam and other AGI in Her not only passed as persons, they transcended the human experience into a whole other level we couldn’t grasp.
But I realize your point is that the problem is more on the human side and how we so easily personify anything close to seeming human-like. It’s possible that we may even miss machine intelligence if it comes about because it will be so alien to us. Look at dolphin research and how little we understand their communication, and that’s still biological entities that have some things in common with us.
Humans are no more stupid than they always have been. It’s more that in the US the education system is becoming less and less effective, and the government is doing less and less regulation, allowing companies to get more effective at bypassing people’s critical faculties.
The AI in Her was able to pass as a full person. But, what we’re seeing now is that humans are not good at understanding the difference between a real person and a program designed to simulate a human.
IMO it’s like the mirror test which is designed to see if an animal recognizes itself in the mirror, or thinks it’s another animal. The LLM breakthrough is basically that we can now have a computer program that is in no way intelligent or self-aware, but it is able to simulate those things well enough to fool many / most humans.
Sam and other AGI in Her not only passed as persons, they transcended the human experience into a whole other level we couldn’t grasp.
But I realize your point is that the problem is more on the human side and how we so easily personify anything close to seeming human-like. It’s possible that we may even miss machine intelligence if it comes about because it will be so alien to us. Look at dolphin research and how little we understand their communication, and that’s still biological entities that have some things in common with us.
The fact that humans are becoming increasingly more stupid and brain-dead helps too.
Humans are no more stupid than they always have been. It’s more that in the US the education system is becoming less and less effective, and the government is doing less and less regulation, allowing companies to get more effective at bypassing people’s critical faculties.
AI doesn’t have to become smarter if everyone just becomes stupid.