AI IS NOT TRUE INTELLIGENCE

AI may never be able to completely replicate how the human brain works. That’s what neurologists have long warned about. Some of the world’s respected linguists are of the same view.

“AI isn’t true intelligence,” says the world’s preeminent linguist Noam Chomsky, one of the most esteemed public intellectuals of all time, whose intellectual stature has been compared to that of Galileo, Newton, and Descartes.

Chomsky penned an op-ed for The New York Times with linguistics professor Ian Roberts and Jeffrey Watumull, a director of artificial intelligence at a science and technology company, which critiqued the current state of AI. He labelled systems like ChatGPT as “high-tech plagiarism”, questioning their role in education and innovation.

Part of the thought-provoking piece reads: “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.

“Let’s stop calling it Artificial Intelligence and call it what it is: Plagiarism Software. It doesn’t create anything, just copies existing works from artists and alters them sufficiently to escape copyright laws. It’s the largest theft of property since Native American lands by European settlers.”