People are always advising executives to think about AI like an intern, or PhD-level researcher, or a expert colleague who is occasionally fallible, or even a middle manager. But all these analogies to types of human workers are actually a kind of category error. It doesn't capture how truly bizarre AI models are. We no more understand how these models "perceive" the world than I truly understand how my dog perceives the world. Today's AI is more like working with an alien species than it is working with a human, be that an intern or experienced pro. Recent research from Stanford on the way in which multimodal AI models can experience "mirage reasoning" further highlights this. I cover that research and plenty more in my latest Fortune "Eye on AI" newsletter.
"...how alien machine brains really are..." Yes, but sometimes scientists have a different opinion! https://www.linkedin.com/posts/panagiotis-gioannis-3b8605186_agentic-ai-and-the-next-intelligence-explosion-activity-7441484329366691841-OMzt [We have entered the era of human-AI centaurs: composite actors that are neither purely human nor purely machine]
very interesting and helpful way of thinking! so much goes into prompting correctly.
We no more understand how these models "perceive" the world than I truly understand how my dog perceives the world. Today's AI is more like working with an alien species than it is working with a human