The Obfuscation of Intelligence - Part 3

Modernity, Post-Modernity and the Tower of Babel

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“If men create intelligent machines, or fantasise about them, it is either because they secretly despair of their own intelligence or because they are in danger of succumbing to the weight of a monstrous and useless intelligence which they seek to exorcise by transferring it to machines, where they can play with it and make fun of it. By entrusting this burdensome intelligence to machines we are released from any responsibility to knowledge, much as entrusting power to politicians allows us to disdain any aspiration of our own to power”…

— Jean Baudrillard

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obfuscate

/ˈɒb.fʌs.keɪt/ ˈɑːb.fə.skeɪt

to throw into shadow

confuse

to be evasive, unclear, or confusing

to make something less clear and harder to understand, especially intentionally

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Please read:

• Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task [ LINK ];

• Teachers Must Avert an AI-Facilitated Intellectual Dark Age [ LINK ];

• Do LLMs have stable preferences, coherent principles or specific World Views? [LINK ] [ LINK ];

• Does AI pass the smell test? [ LINK ];

• AI Reasoning Paper [ LINK ] [ LINK ]; and

• Algorithmic Governance and Legitimacy [ LINK ].

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“Our present dark age encompasses all domains, from philosophy to political theory, to biology, statistics, psychology, medicine, physics, and even the sacred domain of mathematics. Low-quality ideas have become common knowledge, situated within fuzzy paradigms. Innumerable ideas which are assumed to be rigorous are often embarrassingly wrong and utilise concepts that an intelligent teenager could recognise as dubious”…

— Steve Patterson

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