One of the researchers with the greatest support in the scientific community on issues of evolution is Charles Darwinwho considered that the extinction of the species was one of the consequences of evolutionbut his theories have been taken so seriously throughout history that this fear of extinction has spread in various ways, some outside his vision.
When oppenheimer created the bomb atomic and state Joined attacked hiroshima and nagasakia global fear spread before the destructive power of a technological advance of this magnitude and many questioned if the same humans we would provoke our extinction.
that vision of science —that in the case of bomb atomic is fully justified and which cannot be compared to a text generator like ChatGPT—, has generated certain psychosis collective in the face of technological advances such as intelligence artificial (AI), which is thought to be counterproductive in the future.
According to the British weekly The Economist, returning to inventions that had a similar technological impact such as printing of Gutenberg and the browser Web —each in their time— could pave the way for a better reception of applications that generate content through the use of AIwithin these, the ones that have been most controversial and that use “great language models” (LLMS in English).
“A technology does not need to be the end of the world to change the world”
Illustration of Gutenberg’s printing press, created in 1450.
The printing of Gutenberg resulted in a change of such magnitude for the culture literary that he world modern is unimaginable” without her, so “any guidance her story may provide for speculation about the LLMS be, at best, partial and, at worst, misleading”, according to The Economist.
He browser Web revolutionized the industry computational and the way in which it is organized informationand became “a window” by which files and applications could be accessed from anywhere and wherever they were, antecedent to everything we do today on our computers to access information.
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Emily Bender, a professor at the University of Washington, told The Economist that LLMS They offer nothing more than the ability of repeat like a parrot, which is often wise, but which looks nothing like thought”, so talk about risks existential seems pretty”absurd” Until now.
However, there are still “people who believe in gods and souls with little obvious concern for compensatory science,” leading to precisely these theories conspiracy and of the end of the world that resist or misrepresent some of the theories scientific.
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