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Using fascist technology to fight fascism still promotes fascist technology. (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 17 points 1 week ago (2 children)

one of my specific issues is use of the word intelligence. exactly 0 of the "AI" built over the previous 60 years is "endowed with the faculty of understanding or reason"... it is false advertising at best and a scam if we're being honest.

if they called it "bag of words" processing or "computer that is pretty good at guessing what your taking about" i'd be less irritated when people laud it's accomplishments.

at the core, all of these technologies are signal processing and pattern recognition, nothing more.... no matter what musk, altman and the rest say there is no intelligence in there.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    You are just using a very narrow definition of intelligence to mean exactly human-like intelligence. All intelligence is signal processing and pattern recognition. You can give LLM a novel task and it might complete it. Sometimes even well. Sure, you may argue it doesn't "understand" what's it's doing the way humans do (seemingly), but it's still intelligence of some kind.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Sure, you may argue it doesn't "understand" what's it's doing the way humans do (seemingly)

    I think one could argue that "It doesn't actually understand what it's saying, it's just parroting its training data" also applies to a depressingly large portion of the human population.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago

    As an autist, this is pretty much how I communicated with neurotypicals for most of my life. Person says something, I pull something out of my database of premade scripts and with any luck, it made sense in context. 😅😅

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    I'm using the definition of intelligence from a dictionary. language should be accurate. if AI folks called it "intellectual mimicry" I would have no issues.

    they are attempting to bequeath an endowment based on specious reasoning and the hope to make money; not on the actual abilities of the machine.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 week ago* (1 child)

    People focus on the "intelligence" part but ignore artificial, and I think that makes a big difference. The name is pretty apt honestly. It appears to be intelligent. It outwardly simulates intelligence. But it's all man made to present that illusion - like an artificial reef.

    Artificial: made, produced, or done by humans especially to seem like something natural.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 week ago

    This is an issue of science in general, and MANY people take issue with naming conventions, even scientists themselves. Black holes aren't black and they aren't holes. The big bang didn't explode and there probably wasn't sound. The primordial soup didn't have chicken broth.

    Unfortunately, that is exceedingly unlikely to change.

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