What Douglas Hofstadter thinks about OpenAI

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Cognitive scientist, born in 1945, whose Gödel, Escher, Bach (1979) explored self-reference and "strange loops" as a key to minds and to artificial intelligence.

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1. 8 Jul 2023

   Our readingToday's large language models are repellent and threatening to humanity

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   Their wordsI am profoundly troubled by today’s large language models, such as GPT-4. I find them repellent and threatening to humanity, partly because they are inundating the world with fakery, as is exemplified by the piece of text produced by the ersatz Hofstadter.

   ↗Gödel, Escher, Bach, and AI (The Atlantic)theatlantic.com 1st of 5 in this piece