Post AWObEUb6lytXPELvsm by TMEubanks@astrodon.social
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 (DIR) Post #AWOOqpq0x1haskHHm4 by clive@saturation.social
       2023-06-05T20:40:34Z
       
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       Terrific @pluralistic piece about how AI hype — both from those who make AI, and some who critique AI — serves mostly to promote the idea that it’s *jussst on the verge* of being wildly competent at everything … … instead of being basically an advanced form of autocomplete that will be used mostly by monopolized firms to make their already-crappy services crappier (and more profitable) by pulling more humans out of the loophttps://doctorow.medium.com/ayyyyyy-eyeeeee-4ac92fa2eed
       
 (DIR) Post #AWOQ1n13sn1hGnETRY by vruz@mastodon.social
       2023-06-05T20:53:23Z
       
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       @clive @pluralistic I'm generally in agreement with many things Cory says, but not this.  A leap of magnitude is a leap of quality.   It's not simply that a few billion transistors more have been added and machines acquired the ability to perform many more ANDs and ORs.  That's a very myopic way to see what's happening.It's not simply the ability to predict, but also the ability combine, following the rules of language which evolved over millions of years to represent the world humans made.
       
 (DIR) Post #AWOZePrUnpmOL6Fefg by jdrhoades@mastodon.social
       2023-06-05T22:41:37Z
       
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       @clive @pluralistic I've been doing quite a bit of experimenting with AI lately, and I've come to the conclusion that it's really not that intelligent. It gets basic facts wrong and its "creative" output is flat, literal, and unimaginative at best, downright ugly at worst.
       
 (DIR) Post #AWOaD702vJhnyVnM8G by colburn@sfba.social
       2023-06-05T22:47:54Z
       
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       @clive @pluralistic I don't know, this piece may not age very well, IMO. It feels like it may be a case of cramming new  technology into a preexisting model of how things work, rather than allowing for the possibility that one's model of how things work may need to be adjusted to include new technology. I certainly don't have any specialized knowledge about this subject myself, but if there's even a 3% chance that Doctorow is wrong about this, glib pooh-poohing of the dangers seems misguided. Time will tell, I suppose.
       
 (DIR) Post #AWObEUb6lytXPELvsm by TMEubanks@astrodon.social
       2023-06-05T22:59:23Z
       
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       @clive @pluralistic Since they own the computers, they would use them in this way even if they were capable of more.
       
 (DIR) Post #AWOhMaiiUZUAR99lWS by citykidPVD@urbanists.social
       2023-06-06T00:08:05Z
       
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       @clive @pluralistic Please can we all remember to call it #FakeIntelligence ?
       
 (DIR) Post #AWP1u7yPsP6GD2lika by gavinisdie@masto.ai
       2023-06-06T03:58:16Z
       
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       @clive @pluralistic if AI were to actually gain sentience, it would most likely speak out against bug corporations honestly