• Ligma_Male [comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    i don't think i'm taking a hard line, except dreaming of the death of marketers.

    we are so far from sapient AI that it's dumb to talk about it in the first place. Artificial general intelligence, if it will even ever exist and not just be more and more complex chinese rooms until we ruin the planet, will be nothing like these grammar or image remixers.

    • edge [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Artificial general intelligence, if it will even ever exist and not just be more and more complex chinese rooms

      That's what artificial intelligence is. People seem to dream of AI as a human brain inside a computer, but it's definitionally a computer program, and therefore a complex chinese room (that's not to say it can't be sentient/sapient). "It's not AI, it's just [neural networks/machine learning/a language model]" is a common belief now, but they fail to understand that that will always be the case. As we develop AI technology, we will of course know what it is and how it works to some extent, because we made it. But we think AI has to be some mysterious sci-fi shit or else it's not actually AI.

      • Ligma_Male [comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        That’s what artificial intelligence is.

        no that's what marketing lies say it is

        But we think AI has to be some mysterious sci-fi shit or else it’s not actually AI.

        if it's not intelligent then it's not fucking artificial intelligence.

        • edge [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          It is intelligent, I think you're missing the artificial part. "It's not really intelligent" is exactly what artificial intelligence means.