AI is making us smarter, says AI pioneer Terry Sejnowski [Video]

From a long perspective of working in the trenches of machine learning, Terry Sejnowski has been an enthusiastic advocate for the positive impact of artificial intelligence (AI). In 2018, he wrote in the book The Deep Learning Revolution that “AI will make you smarter.” 

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Things move fast in AI time. Since 2018, generative AI (Gen AI) has invaded our lives. In his latest book, ChatGPT and the Future of AI: The Deep Language Revolution, published last month by MIT Press, Sejnowski reviews the rise of large language models (LLMs) and concludes that “AI is indeed making us smarter.”

But how do we measure smarter? What exactly does that mean?

“What is intelligence? Intelligence is really about problem-solving,” Sejnowski told ZDNET in an interview. With ChatGPT, and programs like it, “I am able to get up to speed faster, but, also, it leads …