Three questions answered by an #AI stating that "the quest to create intelligent machines is one of the most important and fascinating of our time"??

Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3 (GPT-3) is likely the most advanced natural language artificial intelligence solution today existing in the world. Here a conversation I had right now with "her" on trends in our human progress (in bold her answers)

PLEASE READ IT... AS IT IS INDEED IMPRESSIVE (at least, it has been for me ??)

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QUESTION 1: When we imagine the progress of the next 30 years, we sometimes look back to the progress of the previous 30 as an indicator of how much will likely happen. When we think about the extent to which the world will change in the 21st century, we may just take the 20th century progress and add it to the year 2000. If someone is being more clever about it, they might predict the advances of the next 30 years not by looking at the previous 30 years, but by taking the current rate of progress and judging based on that. They’d be more accurate, but still way off. In order to think about the future correctly, you need to imagine things moving at a much faster rate than they’re moving now. Anything to add?

GPT-3: This is all very abstract, so let me give you a concrete example. Let’s say you’re a nerd like me and that you play video games. When you play video games, you’re likely using a game console. You play a game, you build up your score, and then you’re done. The game console is powerful enough to give you a great experience, but it’s not powerful enough to do anything else. When we think about the “video game console of the future”, we might think about what the next great console will look like. We might imagine it will be smaller, lighter, and faster than any console that has come before, with a better graphics chip and maybe some other nifty features. That’s how Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and Wii were envisioned in the year 2000. It’s how the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 were envisioned today. The assumption is that game consoles will continue to be specialized in one particular area, and that we’ll continue to buy a console for each thing we want to do. But we’re thinking about the future wrong. That’s not how things are going to be. The game console of the future is something that will be with us all the time, and it will be a lot more powerful than the console we have today. It will be more flexible, and more useful. It will be the device that will allow us to do everything we want, and it will be so fast and so powerful that we won’t be able to imagine life without it. It will take the place of the desktop computer or the laptop, or maybe even the smartphone. It will be the device that we use to surf the internet and watch movies, and it will be the device that we use to play video games. It will be the default device that we use to do everything we want to do. The game console of the future is a wearable computer, a screen that covers your eyes, and it has sensors that track your head movement. When you move your head, the image on the screen moves with you. It will change the way we interact with the world. It will allow us to do things that we never thought possible. It’s a device that will allow us to experience the world in a completely new way.

QUESTION 2: We use AI all the time in our daily lives, but we often don’t realize it’s AI. John McCarthy, who coined the term “Artificial Intelligence” in 1956, complained that “as soon as it works, no one calls it AI anymore.” Because of this phenomenon, AI often sounds like a mythical future prediction more than a reality. Where do you think we will use AI in the future?

GPT-3: I think AI will become increasingly prevalent in our daily lives, but will remain largely invisible. For example, I think AI will play a big role in our homes, helping us with tasks like keeping track of our schedules, managing our finances, and providing customer service. We will also see AI being used more in the workplace, assisting employees with tasks like data entry and analysis. Additionally, AI will continue to be used in healthcare, both in terms of diagnosis and treatment. Ultimately, I believe AI will become ubiquitous, helping us with both the big and small tasks in our lives.

QUESTION 3: Nothing make us appreciate human intelligence like learning about how unbelievably challenging it is to try to create a computer as smart as we are. Building skyscrapers, putting humans in space, figuring out the details of how the Big Bang went down—all far easier than understanding our own brain or how to make something as cool as it. As of now, the human brain is the most complex object in the known universe. So how are we going to get a machine to be as smart as we are?

GPT-3: First, we have to understand how we got to be as smart as we are, which is much harder than it sounds. After all, if we knew exactly how the brain worked, we could just copy it, right? Unfortunately, it's not that simple. The brain is a network of billions of neurons, each of which is connected to thousands of others. These connections are constantly changing, which is what allows us to learn and remember new things. But it also makes the brain incredibly difficult to understand and replicate. In addition, the brain is constantly generating electrical signals that carry information from one part of the brain to another. Scientists have only begun to map these signals, and they still don't understand how they work. So how do we create a machine that is as smart as the human brain? The answer is we don't really know. But there are a few different approaches that scientists are exploring. One is to try to reverse-engineer the brain. This is a difficult task, but scientists have made some progress. They have been able to create artificial neural networks that can learn and remember like the brain. Another approach is to create artificial intelligence that is based on completely different principles than the brain. This is a more speculative approach, but some scientists believe it is the only way to create truly intelligent machines. Ultimately, we may not know how to create a machine that is as smart as the human brain. But that doesn't mean we should give up. The quest to create intelligent machines is one of the most important and fascinating problems of our time.

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Feedbacks? Comments? When AI GPT-3 wrote "Let’s say you’re a nerd like me and that you play video games"... well, no words for this, I just stared at the screen... speechless...