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[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (17 children)

It's one of the terrible hype trains again... However, I wonder what makes him think that humans are something clearly more than a model that gathers data through the senses and reacts to external stimuli based on the current model. I think that's special pleading.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (14 children)

I've seen a lot of reaction to AI that smacks of some kind of species-level narcissism, IMO. Lots of people have grown up being told how special humans were and how there were certain classes of things that were "uniquely human" that no machine could ever do, and now they're being confronted with the notion that that's just not the case. The psychological impact of AI could be just as distressing as the economic impact, it's going to be some interesting times ahead.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (3 children)

None of the AI technology we have now even comes close to human intelligence

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

And yet it's writing poetry and painting pictures. That makes it worse, doesn't it? Turns out you don't have to be very intelligent to do those things.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, shitty poetry and entirely unoriginal artwork. I don't know what your deal is but there's a hell of a lot more to consciousness and the human brain than that and current AI tech doesn't even come close to it.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 9 months ago

Better art and poetry than most humans can produce.

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