Much of the #AIhype seems to be cases where people confuse the artifact that results from human cognitive (incl creative) activity with the cognitive activity itself.
Which makes me wonder >>
Which makes me wonder >>
https://twitter.com/emilymbender/status/1576717946210357249
Without the incentive to sell their systems (or generate clicks on articles) would these people really believe that e.g. writing a book is just choosing lots of word forms and putting them on the page?
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And given the incentive to sell their tech (+ all the world telling them how smart they are, I guess), do they actually believe that now?
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I suppose the other possibility is that they know it's more than that and they've gone all in on the magical thinking that their mathy maths have some mysterious emergent properties.
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It would all be just sad if these folks were just entertaining themselves in private, rather than receiving billions of dollars of VC funding, testifying before Congress, etc.
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