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AI begins its ominous split away from human thinking
AIs have a big problem with truth and correctness – and human thinking appears to be a big part of that problem. A new generation of AI is now starting to take a much more experimental approach that could catapult machine learning way past humans.
Bound by different limits than us, and gifted with different talents, these electronic minds were given the freedom to interact with things on their own terms, play to their own cognitive strengths, and build their own ground-up understanding of what works and what doesn't. In the domains where it's now surpassing Ph.D.-level capabilities and knowledge, it got there essentially by trial and error, by chancing upon the correct answers over millions of self-generated attempts, and by building up its own theories of what's a useful reasoning step and what's not. They won't use a scientific method like ours, or split things into disciplines like physics and chemistry, or run the same kinds of experiments that helped humans master the materials and forces and energy sources around them and dominate the world.
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