>"I never imagined that computers would rival, let alone surpass, human intelligence. And in principle, I thought they could rival human intelligence. I didn't see any reason that they couldn't."
Yeah, so he got fooled by LLMs and hasnt been burned by it failing to do the most basic logic.
I have an extremely basic question, that anyone in a (possibly mandatory) high school science class would answer correctly(although to be fair, it could be a 100 level college question). It still cannot answer it correctly because there is too many stay-at-home-parent blogs giving the wrong answer.
Its a language model and it fooled DH. It hasnt gotten smarter than us yet. Its just faster at repeating what other humans verbally said.
So what can we make of this interview? That we have someone spouting opinions, and everyone else laughs at their opinion since they are famous, old, and out of touch.
EDIT: I think LLMs are incredibly useful. I use it more than Google. It doesnt mean its smarter than humans, it means google is worse than LLMs. I can't even provide a list of all the uses, but it doesnt mean they are taking advantage of an old man out of their element.