The Unpredictable Abilities Emerging From Large AI Models

[Pluvious]

After reading this piece, it struck me that we’ve reached the point where unexpected emergent behaviors are appearing in complex software systems. The developers and researchers seeing capabilities manifest itself, but don’t know HOW (yet).

How long before these creations are tasked to design and create their own original systems ?
( how might that workout? )

Truly, we are living in the SciFi Age !

Biologists, physicists, ecologists and other scientists use the term “emergent” to describe self-organizing, collective behaviors that appear when a large collection of things acts as one. Combinations of lifeless atoms give rise to living cells; water molecules create waves; murmurations of starlings swoop through the sky in changing but identifiable patterns; cells make muscles move and hearts beat. Critically, emergent abilities show up in systems that involve lots of individual parts. But researchers have only recently been able to document these abilities in LLMs (Large Learning Models) as those models have grown to enormous sizes.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-unpredictable-abilities-emerging-from-large-ai-models-20230316/