Popular Physicist Labels Chatbots 'Glorified Tape Recorders,' Says Quantum Computing Is The Future

Michio Kaku, a renowned physicist, recently addressed the media’s focus on generative A.I. technologies like ChatGPT and called them "glorified tape recorders,” reports Fortune.

In a conversation with CNN's Fareed Zakaria, he appreciated chatbots for their content-generation capabilities but emphasized their inability to discern truth from falsehood.

"It takes snippets of what's on the web, created by a human, splices them together, and passes it off as if it created these things," he remarked.

His views resonate with those of Meredith Whittaker, an ex-Google AI researcher who called it a “sort of warped mirror of what's on the internet for the last 20 years."

Kaku, an expert in particle physics and string theory, shifted the conversation to the impending quantum computing revolution. He believes quantum computers, with their parallel processing, closely mirror the human brain’s intricate simultaneous reactions.

Unlike traditional computers, quantum machines, using qubits at ultra-low temperatures, predict probabilities instead of fixed outcomes. They are poised to tackle challenges beyond even the most advanced supercomputers’ capabilities.

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