<story><title>Humans who are not concentrating are not general intelligences</title><url>https://srconstantin.wordpress.com/2019/02/25/humans-who-are-not-concentrating-are-not-general-intelligences/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>joe_the_user</author><text>One of the things are about fakes is that they evolve over time.&lt;p&gt;Believe it or not, an incident in 1917 involving Arthur Conan Doyle, inventor of Sherlock Holmes, is instructive.&lt;p&gt;The &amp;quot;Cottingley Fairies&amp;quot; were imagined when a couple of teenage girls took photographs of themselves with pictures of fairies. [1]&lt;p&gt;The thing that is important is that, to my eyes and I think to a typical person of this era, these photos of girls with cutouts of fairies look like ... exactly that. When I first saw these pictures, I couldn&amp;#x27;t believe anyone could be fooled by them. But this period, circa 1917, was a period when photos only recently had appeared and so only recently had photo fakes. So the skill to spot the difference had only recently appeared.&lt;p&gt;Which is to say, I&amp;#x27;m pretty sure the author is correct that deal of the OpenAI text generated isn&amp;#x27;t intelligent text generation but stuff with enough of the markers of &amp;quot;real&amp;quot; text that people might not notice it if they weren&amp;#x27;t paying attention.&lt;p&gt;Moreover, I strongly suspect that if this sort of sham were to become more common, the average person&amp;#x27;s ability to notice it would increase significantly.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Cottingley_Fairies&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Cottingley_Fairies&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>coldtea</author><text>&amp;gt;&lt;i&gt;The thing that is important is that, to my eyes and I think to a typical person of this era, these photos of girls with cutouts of fairies look like ... exactly that. When I first saw these pictures, I couldn&amp;#x27;t believe anyone could be fooled by them. But this period, circa 1917, was a period when photos only recently had appear and so only recently had photo fakes. So the skill to spot the difference had only recently appeared.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tons of people believe in crude &amp;quot;ufo&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;bigfoot&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;chupacabras&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;lock ness&amp;quot; and such photos, well into today though.</text></comment>
<story><title>Humans who are not concentrating are not general intelligences</title><url>https://srconstantin.wordpress.com/2019/02/25/humans-who-are-not-concentrating-are-not-general-intelligences/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>joe_the_user</author><text>One of the things are about fakes is that they evolve over time.&lt;p&gt;Believe it or not, an incident in 1917 involving Arthur Conan Doyle, inventor of Sherlock Holmes, is instructive.&lt;p&gt;The &amp;quot;Cottingley Fairies&amp;quot; were imagined when a couple of teenage girls took photographs of themselves with pictures of fairies. [1]&lt;p&gt;The thing that is important is that, to my eyes and I think to a typical person of this era, these photos of girls with cutouts of fairies look like ... exactly that. When I first saw these pictures, I couldn&amp;#x27;t believe anyone could be fooled by them. But this period, circa 1917, was a period when photos only recently had appeared and so only recently had photo fakes. So the skill to spot the difference had only recently appeared.&lt;p&gt;Which is to say, I&amp;#x27;m pretty sure the author is correct that deal of the OpenAI text generated isn&amp;#x27;t intelligent text generation but stuff with enough of the markers of &amp;quot;real&amp;quot; text that people might not notice it if they weren&amp;#x27;t paying attention.&lt;p&gt;Moreover, I strongly suspect that if this sort of sham were to become more common, the average person&amp;#x27;s ability to notice it would increase significantly.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Cottingley_Fairies&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Cottingley_Fairies&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>onion2k</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s probably right, but as with the fairy pictures the technology to make the fakes is also advancing, and &lt;i&gt;no one&lt;/i&gt; can tell a whether a picture that&amp;#x27;s been made recently is fake or not just by eye.&lt;p&gt;As fake text becomes more common the tools to make it will become more advanced to the point where we can&amp;#x27;t tell it apart from the real thing.</text></comment>