In a thought experiment with unlimited time, pencils, and paper, it would be theoretically possible to run ANY ALL DIGITAL COMPUTER PROGRAM EVER MADE. BUT IT COULD BE DONE is the thing, and you would have identical results to a real C64, albeit it, somewhat slower. Nobody would do all this because it’s hard and would run at 1FPM (frames per month) or something. For output, you could plot every pixel for every frame on sheets of paper so you could see the text. However, with that same paper and pencil, you could also run this program at a deeper level and “play it” exactly like a real Commodore 64 computer would, emulating every chip (uh, let’s skip the SID, audio not needed), every instruction, the rom data, etc. If you understand C64 Basic, you could print this out “play” it by following the Basic commands and storing the variables all with a pencil.
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Here is the source code for a text game called Hamurabi. Image created with Photoshop and Stable Diffusion Starting simple (it’s not necessary for the human to understand what it’s doing, they just has to follow basic rules) This means even these simple tools have the building blocks required to, well, compute anything, identical to how a computer would do it, simply by following instructions. Now, here is the mind blowing thing – a pencil and paper (driven by a human instead of a cpu) is Turing complete. In the early days of computing when electronic computers didn’t exist yet (or were hard to access), paper was an important tool for developing and executing computer programs. How this thought experiment applies to things like Bing AI Many years ago I happened across John Searle’s Chinese Room thought experiment and from that point on, well, it seemed pretty obvious. What’s wrong with me, is there a rock where my heart is? Regardless of output, a flea or even a bacteria cell is more alive than ChatGPT ever can be. Not a bit.Ĭlaiming to feel pain or have dreams doesn’t make a program sentient, don’t be tricked
I don’t care what individuals do, let your freak flag fly high, but we get into trouble if/when people start trying to make stupid decisions for the rest of us. (I wonder if Google’s AI is already training itself on my gmail data…) I know talking about this seems kind of silly now, but imagine the ability of chatbots in a few years.ĭo you remember that one otaku who married his waifu? What if she also talked back and seems to know him better than anyone else in the world? Don’t underestimate how easy it is to pull at heart strings when the mechanical puller will have access to, oh, I don’t know, ALL HUMAN KNOWLEDGE and possibly your complete email contents. Looking ahead: Some thoughts on what might become real problems soonĪs I read news stories like Bing AI chatbot goes on ‘destructive’ rampage: ‘I want to be powerful – and alive’ and Introducing the AI Mirror Test, which very smart people keep failing I’m worried we’re on the threshold of an age where credulous people will fall in love with algorithmic personalities and will start to imbue souls into text prediction engines. Example: I asked Bing AI to summarize my twitter feed and… well, we’re not there yet It’s weird what should be just an Eliza-style parlor trick turned out to be incredible useful, despite the technique’s penchant for ‘hallucinating’. We’re now experiencing the biggest technological shift since the internet – AI text and image breakthroughs are changing the way we live and work. Image created with Photoshop and Stable Diffusion
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