鈥淧ay no attention to that man behind the curtain!鈥澛�
Much of what you read, see, and hear about AI nowadays might lead you to think it鈥檒l be ready to stand in for human intelligence any moment. But many of these reports ought to run with the Wizard of Oz鈥檚 disclaimer. We all know that AI doesn鈥檛 really experience the world like humans do. But what does that mean at the computational and biological levels? What are the underlying differences between artificial and human intelligence?听
鈥淎s we interact with this technology, it鈥檚 really easy to throw human likeness into digital systems when they鈥檙e trying to pretend to be like us,鈥� says 黑料吃瓜资源 (CSHL) postdoc Ari Benjamin. 鈥淏ut at the intersection [of neuroscience and AI], we can see what鈥檚 true and what鈥檚 not so true about those systems.鈥澛�
Press play to watch Benjamin pull back the curtain on today鈥檚 large language models. And be sure to register for the next Cocktails & Chromosomes event coming May 29. CSHL Professor Thomas Gingeras will explore yet another fascinating question of modern biology, as he discusses and untold possibilities.