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[–] 46 points 2 weeks ago (74 children)

It’s so demoralising to perpetually witness apparently intelligent people be convinced that Algorithmic Iterators can in any way be mistaken as a form of intelligence. I’ve struggled for decades to relate to the world; but this recent, collective debasement of rationality has nearly obliterated the few remaining foundations suitable to build hope upon.

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  • [–] 40 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

    AI is about making machines that mimic human level intelligence. Whether they possess actual intelligence doesn’t matter. They just need to act intelligently.

    You can disagree with the terminology, but it has been an active field of study since the 1950s.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

    Remember the Turing test? Damn goal posts move faster than the ball. I’m not sure how one could fail to be impressed by the technological advancements in the last 3 years in the field

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  • [–] 19 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 child)

    Sort of.

    I think Turing thought, "well something that could do this would surely HAVE to be intelligent", but I seriously doubt that he would have waved the white flag for an intelligence that can convincingly mimic human communication but can't count letters in a word.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 weeks ago (39 children)
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    pretty sure it comes from latin "inter-lego" (collect or pick out information, like you would pick out the good fruit from a bush with good and bad fruit).

    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/intelligent

    so it's about filtering what you want to have from what you don't want to have. i.e. a mathematical function f : X -> R which maps an object x to a real number to figure out how desirable that object is, i.e. assign value to it.

    technically you don't even need neural networks for it, sorting algorithms employ this kind of function all the time to sort objects according to some criteria.

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