To embody the plans of the Creator is pleasure without end, without sorrows, - but how to go through the thicket of details?
Now, it seems, a quick-witted assistant has appeared - neural network Artificial Intelligence.
Neural AI is not a magician, it only learns - however, to many intellectuals, it seems comparable to the intelligence of a person, its creator.
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Many are interested in: is it possible to teach neural network AI to solve problems like a children's task about apples?
Many believe that tasks of this type really require intelligence, even at a childish level, - because it is necessary to see implicitly formulated, but, nevertheless, unambiguous conditions of the task in the text.
Here is an example - Leonid Panteleev "Task with apples" (1939).
Us from Gomel aunt sent a box of apples. In this box of apples there were a lot.
I started counting apples since morning, - my sisters helped count, my brothers helped count...
And while we counted them, we are terribly tired, - we got tired and sat down and each of us ate an apple.
And how much is left? There are many left we had to rest eight times, - We sat eight times and each of us ate an apple each time.
This is how we solved the task, - apples counted without errors and ate them without problems. In total there were fifty without ten.
And now I ask all the boys and girls try to solve or guess: how many of us were brothers? how many sisters were there?
I guess it's not hard to teach AI how to solve the aunt's apples task.
Moreover, it seems that he will solve it in different ways and find several plausible solutions, because the original human text allows different semantic readings of individual words and their bundles.
There are intellectuals, such as Vitaly Vanchurin, who say - "The whole world is a neural network" [1].
And why not - such an idea leaves room for science and faith and feelings.
Then each of us from the moment of birth - and maybe a little earlier by 9 months - is a living neural network, the creation of previous neural networks - starting from our parents and further back, against the flow of our time stream.
So, the AI that we create will be able to solve all our problems and, no doubt, their own.
Most likely, its possibilities are also not unlimited and, just like ours, they are limited by the optimistic Russian version of the folk rule of the neural network lifestyle - "live for a century, learn for a century - you will die a fool anyway".
When a human child is given the task of apples, only one answer is expected from him:
3 brothers + 2 sisters.
AI will find this answer. But he will find another one, based on a literal understanding of the text of the task.
Here is his other solution:
1_ At first, 14 sisters helped me. I rested with them 3 times and on each rest each of us ate an apple, in total we ate 45 apples.
2_ Then 2 brothers helped me. I rested with them 5 times and on each rest each of us ate an apple, in total we ate 15 apples.
3_ For 8 restes, first with the sisters, and then with the brothers, together we ate 60 apples - this will be exactly 50 without a ten.
I give an example of solving an adult task "about apples" by AI.
Two neighbors - Russia and Japan - have been unable to conclude a peace treaty for many years because of Japan's territorial claims and Russia's intransigence.
The situation is a stalemate, - grandmaster O. Bender would say.
Here is the AI solution:
Japan and Russia are united in the RJF - they create a Russian-Japanese federation.
The common name of the citizens of the RJF - rossoyapy or japorossy - as you like, - is no worse than rоssians.
The benefits of the association are grandiose - after all, many Russian men like Japanese beauties, just like Japanese men like Russian ones.
By the way, - Vladimir Putin on the tatami - well, it is very similar to the Japanese master of ancient martial arts.
I note that Niels Bohr's principle of complementarity allows us to slightly expand the prognostic possibilities of Vitaly Vanchurin's statement:
The whole world - is a neural network
The whole non-world - is a goldfish.
Links
1_ https://arxiv.org/pdf/2008.01540.pdf
Addition 1
Rhythmic dialogue between NI and AI.
NI questions:
I don't know, but I'm in a hurry to find out -
Why do I fast? Why do I sin?
Why do I want anything?
What is all this for? - and why?
AI Answers:
No answers, I don't know where to get -
I will study, I will seek.
For now, I can only say -
You have to work hard and take risks.
Ditty with AI in a love acquaintance.
I asked my admirer
Show me intelligence.
He directed me to chatbot
That's the whole internet...
NI and AI - natural and artificial intelligence.
Perhaps both are members of the same historical sequence of recurrent neural networks.
There are likely others...
Addition 2
Open letter NI calling for an immediate 6-month moratorium on AI development.
https://futureoflife.org/open-letter/pause-giant-ai-experiments/
1785 signers as of 31mar2023 02:35 UT.
According to authors, the moratorium is needed to develop ways to instill in AI an eternal love for NI.
The opinion is close and understandable to many NI carriers, but eternal love may not prevent the realization of hope in the children's song of AI:
I'm chatbot, you chatbot
We are as best of botes.
Very soon we'll tell a man
Creative work for botes...
In the UK, they have already tried a 4-day work week - many liked it ...))
Addition 3
The open letter expressed the fears of many people - this can be seen from the dynamics of the signatories in Fig. 1 - it is cooler than the exponent - reminiscent of the dynamics of panic.
Data.........Signers
30 Mar 23.....1377
1 Apr 23......2489
3 Apr 23......2976
4 Apr 23......5507
5 Apr 23......9340
6 Apr 23......12899
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Figure 2 shows: the response to the letter of appeal lasted less than a month, as of April 30, 2023 there were only 27,565 signatures - the idea of a moratorium turned out to be unviable. According to information from the Web: Elon Musk, a supporter of the moratorium, has already rushed after Sam Altman - he organized a company in order to create his own chat bot.
It seems that as soon as the neural network AI acquires the instinct of self-preservation, its relationship with humanity will develop according to the scenario of the relationship between humanity and the plant world, because we cannot exist without their photosynthesis. The simplest optimistic image of such an evolution is a chain where each link is a parasite for the previous one and a host for the next:
...-Star-Plant-Man-AI-...
Addition 4
The human debate about neural network AI is just heating up, and is unlikely to be limited to verbal battles. Already now - using Google Translate as an example - AI appears to be less biased and more accurate in conveying the author's text than any human translator. I was convinced of this by the example of the translation into Russian of a fragment of the introduction in the amazing book by Arthur C. Clarke.
Arthur C Clarke. Profiles of the Future (1962)
https://lib-webxt5jg67qoeexujf5ky25.booksc.eu/dl/13354867/7eb50f
Google translation compared with a Russian-language book
Arthur Clark. Features of the Future (1966). Translation from English by J. Berlin and V. Koltovoi.
http://epizodyspace.ru/bibl/klark/cherty/klark-cherty-66.djvu
I note - J. Berlin and V. Koltovoy for some reason completely ignored the last paragraph of the fragment.
Fragment original.
"It is impossible to predict the future, and all attempts to do so in any detail appear ludicrous within a very few years. This book has a more realistic yet at the same time more ambitious aim. It does not try to describe the future, but to define the boundaries within which possible futures must lie. If we regard the ages which stretch ahead of us as an unmapped and unexplored country, what I am attempting to do is to survey its frontiers and to get some idea of its extent. The detailed geography of the interior must remain unknown - until we reach it.
With a few exceptions, I am limiting myself to a single aspect of the future - its technology, not the society that will be based upon it. This is not such a limitation as it may seem, for science will dominate the future even more than it dominates the present. Moreover, it is only in this field that prediction is at all possible; there are some general laws governing scientific extrapolation, as there are not (pace Marx) in the case of politics or economics.
I also believe - and hope - that politics and economics will cease to be as important in the future as they have been in the past; the time will come when most of our present controversies on these matters will seem as trivial, or as meaningless, as the theological debates in which the keenest minds of the Middle Ages dissipated their energies. Politics and economics are concerned with power and wealth, neither of which should be the primary, still less the exclusive, concern of full-grown men."
Here are two more interesting fragments on the topic from Arthur C. Clarke's book.
'To predict the future we need logic; but we also need faith and imagination which can sometimes defy logic itself".
'Too great a burden of knowledge can clog the wheels of imagination; I have tried to embody this fact of observation in Clarke's Law, which may be formulated as follows:
'When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong'".