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Letter: What if giant AIs really do usher in true intelligence? (3)

Published 20 October 2021

From John Woodgate, Rayleigh, Essex, UK

Is the result of GPT-3 so surprising? Intelligence is an emergent property, so increasing the number of network parameters is almost certainly bound to increase intelligence. A key next step, already hinted at by science fiction authors, is to give neural networks vision and hearing senses. I suspect that the results will be even more surprising, and I wonder if different AIs of this type can develop different personalities.

Issue no. 3357 published 23 October 2021

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