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The Intelligence and Rationality of AI and Humans: A Conversation With Steven Pinker

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The Evolution of Artificial Intelligence

The notion of artificial intelligence has been there for a while, but the most recent one seems coming out of these large language models. The big surprises, and I got to confess that it surprised me, is how much intelligence is sitting implicitly in databases of language if they're big enough. In the case of GPT-3, and I think chat GPT is something like half a trillion words. It turns out you could not possibly do anything intelligent by manipulating language from one issue of the New York Times. But if you had language of everything that's been on the Internet since the year 1995, and then you extract,. I think it's 50 billion parameters from the correlations  of the

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