[-] Perspectivist@feddit.uk -1 points 1 week ago

You’re moving the goalposts. First you claimed understanding requires awareness, now you’re asking whether an AI knows what a molecule is - as if that’s even the standard for functional intelligence.

No, AI doesn’t “know” things the way a human does. But it can still reliably identify ungrammatical sentences or predict molecular interactions based on training data. If your definition of “understanding” requires some kind of inner experience or conscious grasp of meaning, then fine. But that’s a philosophical stance, not a technical one.

The point is: you don’t need subjective awareness to model relationships in data and produce useful results. That’s what modern AI does, and that's enough to call it intelligent in the functional sense - whether or not it “knows” anything in the way you'd like it to.

[-] Perspectivist@feddit.uk 1 points 1 week ago

Most definitions are imperfect - that’s why I said the term AI, at its simplest, refers to a system capable of performing any cognitive task typically done by humans. Doing things faster, or even doing things humans can’t do at all, doesn’t conflict with that definition.

Humans are unarguably generally intelligent, so it’s only natural that we use “human-level intelligence” as the benchmark when talking about general intelligence. But personally, I think that benchmark is a red herring. Even if an AI system isn’t any smarter than we are, its memory and processing capabilities would still be vastly superior. That alone would allow it to immediately surpass the “human-level” threshold and enter the realm of Artificial Superintelligence (ASI).

As for something like making a sandwich - that’s a task for robotics, not AI. We’re talking about cognitive capabilities here.

[-] Perspectivist@feddit.uk 0 points 1 week ago

“Understanding requires awareness” isn’t some settled fact - it’s just something you’ve asserted. There’s plenty of debate around what understanding even is, especially in AI, and awareness or consciousness is not a prerequisite in most definitions. Systems can model, translate, infer, and apply concepts without being “aware” of anything - just like humans often do things without conscious thought.

You don’t need to be self-aware to understand that a sentence is grammatically incorrect or that one molecule binds better than another. It’s fine to critique the hype around AI - a lot of it is overblown - but slipping in homemade definitions like that just muddies the waters.

[-] Perspectivist@feddit.uk 1 points 1 week ago

The issue here is that machine learning also falls under the umbrella of AI.

[-] Perspectivist@feddit.uk -2 points 1 week ago

So… not intelligent.

But they are intelligent - just not in the way people tend to think.

There’s nothing inherently wrong with avoiding certain terminology, but I’d caution against deliberately using incorrect terms, because that only opens the door to more confusion. It might help when explaining something one-on-one in private, but in an online discussion with a broad audience, you should be precise with your choice of words. Otherwise, you end up with what looks like disagreement, when in reality it’s just people talking past each other - using the same terms but with completely different interpretations.

[-] Perspectivist@feddit.uk 2 points 1 week ago

People should really be more specific when they're speaking of AI. I'm assuming you mean generative AI in the form of video clips.

Sure, why not? We've pretty much accepted awful CGI effects as the norm already. I hardly see AI generated effects as any worse than that. It's entirely possible that those effects could even be better.

[-] Perspectivist@feddit.uk 1 points 1 week ago

Both. It originated in a city with a lab doing gain-of-function research on coronaviruses. I’m not claiming that’s definitely where it came from - but it’s quite the coincidence, to say the least.

And there’s nothing wrong with anti-China propaganda as long as it’s aimed at the authoritarian government, not the people living under it. That regime deserves every bit of it.

“But what about the US this and the UK that?!” Yeah - they deserve it too.

[-] Perspectivist@feddit.uk 1 points 1 week ago

Hay bale - or multiple.

[-] Perspectivist@feddit.uk 1 points 1 week ago

This applies to every single site that hosts adult content - not just reddit.

[-] Perspectivist@feddit.uk 1 points 1 week ago

I’m pretty happy having four distinct seasons. I don’t like winter and snow at all, but I think suffering through six months of cold and darkness is exactly why the warmth and sunshine feel so damn good when summer finally comes. Also, with climate change, the climate where I live has - so far - only been getting better. I’m not saying it’s good overall, but it’s not all bad either.

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