Saviour Machine

ChatGPT and its ilk are essentially a pattern matching engine. AI experts are all very excited when AI passes psychometric tests that involve pattern matching better than humans, for instance theory of mind tests that involve pictures of human faces. While impressive as a technical feat it means nothing ultimately. These psychometric tests are highly artificial and the correct answer is ambiguous to a human since there are subjective factors in deciding the “correct” answer. Tests that involve subjectivity are standardized using mathematical rules so that they appear to be consistent compared to other tests. Any human, who by nature of being human falls prey to subjective judgement, can never be as good as an AI that simply pattern matches standardized questions to standardized answers. The fact AI can get perfect or near perfect scores on standardized psychometric tests that involve subjective judgement prove it’s simply brute force computing vs intelligence. AlphaGo can beat Go masters but fails when its opponent is a niaive Go player. AlphaGo is not playing Go, it’s manipulating numbers. AI is totally fake and gay. Fortunately for the all the people who have thrown money at AI, government regulation and subsidy will save it and entrench the position of AI in society. Your pension fund will stagger along a little longer.