AI MOTTO: LIE OR DIE

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The facts are out there.  All you need to do is look.  AI is hitting a wall.  There are performance limits being played down way too much by the leading proponents  of AI.  They are caught in a moment where they must live by the AI Motto:  Lie or Die.  In reality,  AI is being shattered into many pieces by hitting the wall of its performance limits.  This link about the limits of LLMs makes the issues clear.  This article lists some 10 shortcomings.  The number could easily be bigger.  Moreover, any of those problems can be deal killers for a number of investors.  The more pragmatic proponents recognize that the current technical limits force resorting to many small specialized AI modules.

Sam Altman and others continue to make outrageous appeals for levels of R&D funding far beyond anything ever done with computer technology or anything else.    The hundreds of billions and possible trillions of dollars they seek have no reasonable basis for investors ever getting their money back.  It frankly makes no sense.

At the same time he is calling for increased investment, his case is becoming weaker.  What some observers may be missing is that the quest for so-called Universal Artificial Intelligence is shattering before our eyes into a hundred smaller applications.  Folks like Altman continue to avoid this reality.

A recent paper cited in Pubmed explores the problems of AI deception.  This leads to a double edged realization.  Sam Altman and others may be lying about AI, while AI itself has trouble with lying and deception.  Both modes suffer the same concern:  Self-Preservation at any cost, including integrity.

So called pundits will keep blathering about a universal artificial intelligence while whispering it is taking much longer than expected.  This failure to correct the popular narrative, primarily for investors, is annoying, dishonest and possibly fraudulent. Which leads to other main point of this op-ed:  Better, cheaper, more advanced technologies better approximating human intelligence are on their way.

Meantime, Back at The Neuromorphic Labs

There is a remarkable range of supporting research which will take AI beyond LLMs.  But the obsessive focus on commercializing LLMs has drawn attention away from these areas.  Neuromorphic technology,  Transformer AI, the integration of AI with quantum computing, memristor technology, and even physical improvements in existing chip architectures point to a very different future than the one Sam Altman is selling. One of the problems for someone like Sam Altman is that focus on those other areas will further reduce investment in LLMs.

 This link provides a lead up to neuromorphic chips by focusing memristors- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHZxhdjCBSo

While  this video only looks at a few areas, it is an important starting point.  We will eventually hear about the integration of other technologies leading to significant neuromorphic technologies.  It is going to be an interesting time.