On Tue, Apr 8, 2025 at 1:10 PM Liam Proven via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> > and turning the world over to AI before it works properly. > > It's not _going_ to work properly. There is no such thing as "AI" yet > and it is an unsolved question if there ever will be. > > I don't think that the lack of a usable candidate is proof that there never will be. I do agree that it won't be LLM. > > Saying this baldly violates the new religion of the Silicon Valley > believers, but LLM bots at not AI and they never will be. They fail > both the "A" and the "I". > > Imho they're artificial in the way artificial turf is. There are a limited number of applications in which it can stand in for actual turf. In that sense I don't think the term 'AI', which changes it's meaning with each generation is terribly useful other than to marketing people. Bill Hicks had some thoughts about them. I prefer the term 'machine intelligence' to describe something that can compete with human minds. It's further away than I can imagine but maybe not inconceivable.
