Paul Ryding
What sets humans apart from the rest of life, or indeed inert matter? Many people would respond that it is our intelligence. Yet the rise of seemingly intelligent machines challenges this way of thinking. The companies behind these new artificial intelligence technologies, in the form of ChatGPT and its rivals, speak of achieving artificial general intelligence – machines that have the same level of intelligence as humans across a range of tasks.
Does this meteoric rise in AI make human intelligence, and therefore us, less special? , professor of machine learning at the University of Cambridge, doesn’t think so.…
