• OhNoMoreLemmy@lemmy.ml
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    3 months ago

    Words might have meanings but AI has been used by researchers to refer to toy neutral networks longer than most people on Lemmy have been alive.

    This insistence that AI must refer to human type intelligence is also such a weird distortion of language. Intelligence has never been a binary, human level indicator. When people say that a dog is intelligent, or an ant hive shows signs of intelligence, they don’t mean it can do what a human can. Why should AI be any different?

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      3 months ago

      You honestly don’t seem to understand. This is not about the extent of intelligence. This is about actual understanding. Being able to classify a logical problem / a thought into concepts and processing it based on properties of such concepts and relations to other concepts. Deep learning, as impressive as the results may appear, is not that. You just throw a training data at a few billion “switches” and flip switches until you get close enough to a desired result, without being able to predict how the outcome will be if a tiny change happens in input data.

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        3 months ago

        I mean that’s a problem, but it’s distinct from the word “intelligence”.

        An intelligent dog can’t classify a logic problem either, but we’re still happy to call them intelligent.