"Let's stop calling it 'Artificial Intelligence' then and call it what it is, 'plagiarism software."

Source: NYT

 

"The human mind is not, like ChatGPT and its ilk, a lumbering statistical engine for pattern matching, gorging on hundreds of terabytes of data and extrapolating the most likely conversational response or most probable answer to a scientific question. On the contrary, the human mind is a surprisingly efficient and even elegant system that operates with small amounts of information; it seeks not to infer brute correlations among data points but to create explanations....
    "The crux of machine learning is description and prediction; it does not posit any causal mechanisms or physical laws. Of course, any human-style explanation is not necessarily correct; we are fallible. But this is part of what it means to think: To be right, it must be possible to be wrong. Intelligence consists not only of creative conjectures but also of creative criticism. Human-style thought is based on possible explanations and error correction, a process that gradually limits what possibilities can be rationally considered. (As Sherlock Holmes said to Dr. Watson, 'When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.') ...
    "But ChatGPT and similar programs are, by design, unlimited in what they can 'learn' (which is to say, memorise); they are incapable of distinguishing the possible from the impossible. ... For this reason, the predictions of machine learning systems will always be superficial and dubious....
    "Let's stop calling it 'Artificial Intelligence' then and call it what it is, 'plagiarism software,' because 'it doesn't create anything but copies of existing works of existing artists, modifying them enough to escape copyright laws..."

~ Noam Chomsky, Ian Roberts + Jeffrey Watamull, from their article 'The False Promise of ChatGPT' and Chomsky's interview 'Chomsky on ChatGPT, Education, Russia and the unvaccinated'

"What does artificial intelligence have to do to be really transformatively productive?...
    "Writing fake articles and substituting for stock photos (which people used to use in their blog posts instead of AI-generated illustrations) is replacing work that is already relatively low-paid and not, alas, central to the economy….
    "The comment making the rounds on the internet, in various forms, is that AI should be doing tedious tasks for creative people, but instead it’s doing creative tasks for tedious people."

~ Robert Tracinski from his article 'Compute On, Jeeves'