“Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!”
Much of what you read, see, and hear about AI nowadays might lead you to think it’ll be ready to stand in for human intelligence any moment. But many of these reports ought to run with the Wizard of Oz’s disclaimer. We all know that AI doesn’t 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?
“As we interact with this technology, it’s really easy to throw human likeness into digital systems when they’re trying to pretend to be like us,” says Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) postdoc Ari Benjamin. “But at the intersection [of neuroscience and AI], we can see what’s true and what’s not so true about those systems.”
Press play to watch Benjamin pull back the curtain on today’s 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 RNA’s unsolved mysteries and untold possibilities.