‘The promise of machines promising simple, definitive answers.’ What do we want from artificial intelligence? Plus other letters to the editor for April 8
: There is a concern that we may equate what ChatGPT performs very intelligently – retrieve, summarize and find patterns in vast amounts of data – with all types of intelligence. Reporter Ian Brown points out several limitations and threats. Especially worrisome is the dependency on existing data, even if ethically tainted by racism, sexism etc.
Does this messy complexity make us especially vulnerable to the promise of machines promising simple, definitive answers?The evaluation of intelligence can be viewed from a learning perspective: How does the machine learn versus the human? With the dearth of catalogue raisonnés about our artists, buyers are generally reliant on “connoisseurship.” I recall some years ago, art writer Souren Melikian wrote: “Experts such as these combine the knowledge of the serious art historian and the unmatched visual experience of those who have been buying all their lives, risking money each time they make a judgment – nothing is quite as effective in helping to focus the mind.
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