Personally, I think that’s oversimplification to the level of absurdity, for both AI and humans.
That description can easily be applied to insects and animals as well.
sacredbirdman@kbin.social 9 months ago
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.
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
FaceDeer@kbin.social 9 months ago
Humans are animals, so that seems fine to me.
FaceDeer@kbin.social 9 months ago
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.
rambaroo@lemmy.world 9 months ago
None of the AI technology we have now even comes close to human intelligence
FaceDeer@kbin.social 9 months ago
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.
rambaroo@lemmy.world 9 months ago
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.
kromem@lemmy.world 9 months ago
It’s been a wild ride of people thinking things can’t be the case which then turn out to be the case.
For example, this neat work just out of NYU: nyu.edu/…/ai-learns-through-the-eyes-and-ears-of-…
thesmokingman@programming.dev 9 months ago
I’m not sure how you get this from the article, though. Evans has no doubt it’s possible; like anyone with any knowledge of the state of AI he also knows that’s really fucking far away and just science fiction today. On the other hand, if you’re going to reduce things to the absurd level comment chain OP did, I suppose the future is now because judicial AI is just as racist as cops.
FaceDeer@kbin.social 9 months ago
I'm not talking about the article specifically, just a general class of reaction I've seen.
sacredbirdman@kbin.social 9 months ago
"What we call AI lacks agency, the ability to make dynamic decisions of its own accord, choices that are “not purely reactive, not entirely determined by environmental conditions.” "
That's from the article and I referred to that.
thesmokingman@programming.dev 9 months ago
So are you suggesting that humans “[lack] agency [and] the ability to make dynamic decisions?” Your point is that humans are just AI and, if we’re going from this quote, we can’t have agency if we are the same.