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One of the stupidest things I've heard.
I also would like to attach the bluesky repost I found this from:
https://bsky.app/profile/leyawn.bsky.social/post/3lnldekgtik27
The pride of cancelling my 20 year subscription continues to swell.
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What kind of fluff "journalism" is this?
thanks. my first thought was, "are you fucking kidding me?"
but this is what all the money wants us to think about "AI", which is definitely not intelligence. they want everyone to accept that pattern recognition is indistinguishable from intelligence.
edit - alcohol makes me talk in cicles
It sucks but they do have an audience. I have older family members who swear ChatGPT has a “personality” because it will reply when they thank it.
We can't even give humans human rights. AI will have to get in line.
Ok so: Measure of a Man is one of my all time favorite Star Trek episodes, but come the fuck on. We are so, so far away from that. Maybe worry more about humans, right now, and the world we live in, instead of some nebulous fucking future that we won’t even goddamn reach if we don’t pay attention to, you know, humans and the world we live in.
Wow, and in the NYT no less. This will make a lot of people a lot more stupid. I guess the AI grift needs to go on for a while longer.
I really wonder what's going on in the editors minds here.
The entire premise of the article is "All experts say no, but I think yes" - why would anyone about any topic publish this? If it would be an actual debate, maybe some contrarian but actual experts arguing in favor of sentience, you could get into an argument here. But this article is blatant science denial. Climate change deniers and antivaxxers use the exact same approach "facts say X, but my feelings say Y".
I have a preconceived conclusion about my anthropomorphized view of a statistical model with some heuristics around it. People who know what they're talking about say I'm wrong, but I need an idea for an article to write that people will read.
Does my phone feel pain when I drop it?
Can our AI fall in love with a human? Scientists laughed at me when I asked them but I found this weird billionaire to pay me to have sex with his robot.
I don't see any reason why this can't be discussed. I think people here are just extremely anti AI. It is almost like forcing AI on people was a bad idea.
i don't even understand why it's worth discussing in the first place. "can autocomplete feel?" "should compilers form unions?" "should i let numpy rest on weekends?"
wake me up when what the marketers call "ai" becomes more than just matrix multiplication in a loop.
I wish ads felt pain when I skipped them
Gemini in it's current form? No, but it is a fair question to ask for the future
Yeah, twenty years from now at the very least.
A little too optimistic
Yeah, but it's like fusion. It's always 20 years away for the last 60 years.
Realistically, as a dev who watched AI develop from cheap parlor tricks to very expensive and ecosystem crunching fancy parlor tricks that mangers think will replace all of their expensive staff who actually know how to design and create:
Modern "AI" is fundamentally incapable of actual thought. They are very advanced and impressive statistical engines, but the technology is incapable of thinking at a fundamental level.