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An Alarming Number of Gen Z Ai Users Think It's Conscious (www.pcmag.com)
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I don't doubt the possibility but current AI tech, no.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

It’s barely even AI. The amount of faith people have in these glorified search engines and image generators Lmao

[–] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago

It's literally peaks and valleys of probability based on linguistic rules. That's it. It is what's referred to as a "Chinese room" in thought experiments.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I don't have a leg to stand on calling anything "barely AI" given what us gamedevs call AI. Like a 1d affine transformation playing pong.

It's beating your ass, there, isn't that intelligent enough for you?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

A calculator can multiply 2887618 * 99289192 faster than you ever could. Does that make a calculator intelligent?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 18 hours ago

It's not an agent with its own goals so in the gamedev definition, no. By calculator standards, also not. But just as a washing machine with sufficient smarts is called intelligent, so it's, in principle, possible to call a calculator intelligent if it's smart enough. WolframAlpha certainly qualifies. And not just the newfangled LLM-enabled stuff I used Mathematica back in the early 00s and it blew me the fuck away. That thing is certainly better at finding closed forms than me.