Challenging the Intelligence of Artificial Intelligence
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Summary
The article discusses a historical letter warning about the rise of machines and questions the intelligence of artificial intelligence. It challenges the notion that large language models are truly intelligent.
Key quotes
· 2 pulledThe machines are gaining ground upon us.
Day by day we are becoming more subservient to them; more men are daily bound down as slaves to tend them, more men are daily devoting the energies of their whole lives to the development of mechanical life.
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