Some days ago in the bookshop’s newly arrived section I got myself thinking if the one I was holding was possibly authored by AI. I don’t feel like reading generated text.
I read generated text all the time. I ask my AI, I know it’s generated. But the possibility of reading something generated and not knowing haunts me.
Having just finished reading The Emperor’s New Mind from Roger Penrose I am thinking that I may as well start to write. The sake of thinking about the next word probably isn’t like generating text.
Roger, I have to be honest. I didn’t get like 90% of your text. Too intelligent for me. But the 10% is doing something to my internals. The high level of your thought was attainable for me. When you explain that the quasi crystal creation may happen in a thinking-like way and then conjure the possibility that our minds (yours at least) may do the same, that’s a beautiful idea.
And for disclosure, for some of the stuff I didn’t understand I asked my AI for help. And it did a great job explaining. It’s impressive what the artificial neural networks are doing nowadays.
It does a better job than me. Consider this very own situation, I started writing about this thought I had. I connected to a book I’ve just read. And then I am stuck on generating the next word. I’ve just started and rewrote this paragraph a couple of times already.
Which brings me to why I’m happy even if my writing is kinda crap. People will obviously see that it’s written by a human. I hope they will be happy with that. I’m certainly am, because I wouldn’t do to someone what I expect people not to do to me.
So, I expect people not to throw AI generated text without disclosing that. And I think Roger is right, there’s more to human intelligence and consciousness than machines are capable of.