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  • We don't have a mathematical definition for intelligence or artificial like we do for a Turing machine, but most useful concepts don't have precise definitions, like human, air, porn, drugs, medicine. I don't see how there is anything disingenuous about calling computer programs artificially intelligent because that same term describes sci-fi computer programs which display intelligence. A lot of robots in sci-fi aren't superintelligent and they usually have robotic voices and vocabulary choices and sometimes difficulty understanding words that aren't in the dictionary or answering slightly vague questions, things which LLMs have no trouble with.

    Saying the mount Rushmore carvings was formed by erosion is a simple explanation with few assumptions that is possible if you assume erosion happens sufficiently randomly, but it's an absurd explanation nonetheless. Occam's razor is just a rule of thumb to apply to competing explanations which are similarly reasonable and even then it's not telling you which is more likely to be true but which is the simplest model to work with.

  • Normal computer programs only look intelligent in very narrow areas, like number crunching, which is why we don't tend to call them intelligent. Their general intelligence is next to zero. Even if we were delusional enough to think life came from non-life and developed intelligence by random chance and natural selection, you have the same thing there where you get much more non-intelligent output than intelligent output. Monkeys on typewriters could also look intelligent some of the time, but looking at the totality of output they wouldn't.

    It’s just an expression of plain old human intelligence

    All artificial things are expressions of human behaviors. That's kind of the definition of artificial.

  • Intelligence is a description of capability, not the means by which the capability is achieved. So if the output looks intelligent then the process is intelligent regardless of how it works. The difference between natural and artificial intelligence is how the intelligence is achieved - what you're describing doesn't match any intelligence found in nature so if it produces intelligent output then it's artificially intelligent.

  • Statistically likely to...what? I don't understand what you're trying to say.

  • Yes, we have had AutoGPT for 3 years now

  • Consciousness is separate from intelligence and I never brought it up.

  • 10 years is not a long time.

  • No but it was a warning, just like 1984 or most sci-fi about AI

  • That's just denial of reality. AI comes up with new ways of "thinking" like in the math example I cited. If you call that remixing existing ideas then that could describe what all humans do and it's questionable if any of us are creative.

  • LLM output is often indistinguishable from genuine creativity. You can give it an open ended prompt like "illustrate how the world is from the perspective of an LLM" and probably get something nobody has ever seen or thought of before. People use LLMs for generating ideas as well as coming up with novel solutions like I posted. Saying it's not creative is mysticist cope.

  • This meme implies that AI data centers have been around for a long time. They have not. And it's not really the number of data centers that matters it's the techniques that AIs use.

  • It's fallacious to say that because they don't "think" that they can't behave exactly the same as thinking things would, including the appearance of self-awareness and taking over the world.

  • I don't know what you mean by current iteration but what I do know is that general-purpose LLMs can already beat the very best of human intelligence some of the time (recent examples). So it won't take very long for a few more breakthroughs to be made which will enable general-purpose AIs (LLMs, other neural networks, or something else entirely) to beat human intelligence most of the time, and then 90% of the time, then 99.9999% of the time. AI is already doing a lot of the coding to make AI and it could discover better alternatives to LLMs.

  • memes @lemmy.world

    Are you telling me they don't?

  • Exactly

  • Technology @lemmy.world

    Digital ID in the UK: The Government Says It Is Voluntary, But Your Employer Might Not Give You a Choice

    www.ibtimes.co.uk /king-charles-digital-id-bill-controversy-1796716
  • That's what parallel societies are for!

  • Thanks for the inside view. I never knew a lot of the survey takers came from mobile games or that spending could be tracked.

  • They could have an AI tweak the statistics if they seem unrealistic

  • Yup.

  • Technology @lemmy.world

    Pollsters are now asking AIs to answer surveys as if they were humans and passing the results off as poll statistics

    futurism.com /artificial-intelligence/ai-polls-silicon-sampling
  • Technology @lemmy.world

    Claude Code source leak reveals how much info Anthropic can hoover up about you and your system

    www.theregister.com /2026/04/01/claude_code_source_leak_privacy_nightmare/
  • Technology @lemmy.world

    Study: AI autocomplete suggestions can nudge people's opinions - and they don't notice

    www.scientificamerican.com /article/ai-autocomplete-doesnt-just-change-how-you-write-it-changes-how-you-think/
  • memes @lemmy.world

    A tempting offer

  • memes @lemmy.world

    Decisions, decisions...

  • memes @lemmy.world

    Maybe the real Iran was the friends we made along the way