Dennis Whyte
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We might actually experience this faster than we thought because we might be building another kind of intelligence.
Yeah, and that intelligence will explain to us how silly we are.
There was an email thread going around the professors in my department already of, so what is it going to look like to figure out if students have actually written their term papers or it's chat... Chat GPT.
Chat GPT.
So, as usual, we tend to be empiricists in my field.
So, of course, they were in there trying to figure out if it could answer questions for a qualifying exam to get into the PhD program at MIT, which wasโฆ
They didn't do that well at that point.
But of course, this is just the beginning of it.
So we have some interesting ones to go for.
Yeah.
I really recommend, I don't know if you've ever seen them.
It's called The Day the Universe Changed.
This is James Burke.
He's a science historian based in the UK.
He had a fairly famous series on public television called Connections, I think it was.
But the one that I really enjoyed was The Day the Universe Changed.
And the reason for the title of it was that
He says, the universe is what we know and perceive of it.
So when there's a fundamental insight as to something new, the universe for us changes.
Of course, the universe from an objective point of view is the same as it was before, but for us it has changed.