Noam Chomsky: AI isn't coming for us all, you idiots

Hmm. Thinking not like a human would help it avoid and exploit the mental traps humans have. We might not even know they've taken over.

That's not what Chomsky said. It's the author interpretation of what he said. Chomsky said: "That day may come, but its dawn is not yet breaking."

What generation of ChatGPT will generate ad hominem responses like this?

this sounds like the ego of a 13 years old, with no power nor wealth.

I would say humans are pretty good at pattern matching, and thinking of my brain as a "statistical engine" has a lot of intuitive appeal. We are always piecing together an understanding of a scene based on imperfect data.

Every parent knows that human children learn to understand language and speak well before they’ve had time to get exposed to “hundreds of terabytes” of meaningful data. This obvious fact informs Chomsky’s work on language acquisition, which led him to posit an innate language capability.

A human experiments, predicts, learns and understands. A baby shoves everything in its mouth. It discovers how its actions affect the world, extrapolates, and experiments. It learns metaphor, learns how metaphor is useful to predict similar systems, learns the limitations of metaphor. It isn't just gorging data, it is creating data. It fills in the blanks with guesses and superstition, and maybe even uses reasoning to confirm it's speculation. A baby doesn't just regurgitate, no matter what a sleep deprived parent might think.

Please don't post flamewar-style comments to HN. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I'd even say Chomsky's authority worth has been going down the drain lately