Thank you for the post! You raise some great questions. I’m not an expert, but I’d like to check something. Is it possible that Pinker and Marcus are trying to distinguish blabbering from well-reasoned text? If we take that perspective for a moment, Bert or GPT-2 would appear more reasoned, when their training text is more focused. The broader their training text, the less reasoned their output. It’s just a hypothesis.
When some societies turned into agrarian societies, right after they leaned into sports and performing arts as a primary leisure and competitive activity. Training, education and research never went away.
I recently came across this white paper on the Future of Work and the role of our children by The Archbridge Institute. https://www.archbridgeinstitute.org/building-soft-skills-for-the-future-of-work/
According to this white paper, what's needed in the AI era is a combination of creativity, empathy, imagination, and team-building. Ho... (read more)