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".... we've made "machines that can mindlessly generate text, but we haven’t learned how to stop imagining the mind behind it." One potential tonic against this fallacy is to follow an Italian MP's suggestion and replace "AI" with "SALAMI" ("Systematic Approaches to Learning Algorithms and Machine Inferences"). It's a lot easier to keep a clear head when someone asks you, "Is this SALAMI intelligent? Can this SALAMI write a novel? Does this SALAMI deserve human rights?" "
via @pluralistic
@bici @pluralistic SALAMI? thinking meat! Conscious meat! Singing meat?
https://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/thinkingMeat.html
Don't know about yours but my Salami thinks al the time... albeit it's a one track thought.... ;-0
@bici https://blog.quintarelli.it/2019/11/lets-forget-the-term-ai-lets-call-them-systematic-approaches-to-learning-algorithms-and-machine-inferences-salami/
this is my original post
TBH I've been an MP for one legislature, I'm a tech scientist/entrepreneur.
@bici: ".... we've made "machines that can mindlessly generate text...
I like the Salami idea, but you post stimulated me to say..
I don't agree, the Neural Nets are not mindless at all. We still don't understand how Human Intelligence works, but we do know that a NN is simulation the neurons of a biological brain. In both cases they implement a massive probabilistic calculator, that exhibit quite similar behaviour. There for I would postulate they both exhibit 'mind'
@RickTimmis @bici a simulation of what we thought we understood to be the functioning of neurons, mid last century.
now we know it's way more complicated...