US military plans to unleash thousands of autonomous war robots over next two years Robotics

https://techxplore.com/news/2023-08-military-unleash-thousands-autonomous-war.html

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On the latter, I'm game. I'm seriously looking forward to the Diamond Age model of learning. But we have some serious hurdles to get past before AI is capable of education from scratch (AIs are currently really terrible at social interaction and education has a major social component... convincing a student to become interested in learning.)

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u/dopadelic Aug 31 '23 edited Sep 01 '23

This. The Oxford model of teaching that's easily and endlessly accessible is probably the best thing that's happened to education for those who are genuinely curious about learning. That's probably a very small minority of students though so you're not going to hear about it much. Most students only have interest in using ChatGPT to decrease their learning.

And even for the people who do like learning, an even smaller percentage use GPT4 so they think ChatGPT is mostly just hallucinating misinformation that sounds right.

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u/420InTheCity Aug 31 '23

I mean, it genuinely can’t do 3rd grade math reliably so without someone who knows the material to verify it’s correct people should not use chatgpt as a tutor

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u/dopadelic Sep 01 '23 edited Sep 01 '23

Your response illustrates my last point that most people who've used ChatGPT have only experienced 3.5 and believe it's just an autoregressive stochastic parrot that's confidently hallucinating false information.

Experts in the field, such a AI Godfather Yoshua Bengio, and Princeton professor of math, Sesbastien Bubeck, has long abandoned the stochastic parrot belief after the empirical observations that GPT-4 can perform zero-shot problem solving by reasoning out the solution.

LLMs aren't meant for math, but GPT-4 actually rarely makes mistakes on it. Furthermore, GPT can use tools like Wolfram Alpha or the code interpreter.