ChatGPT – The Revolutionary Bullshit Parrot

Re:ChatGPT – The Revolutionary Bullshit Parrot by nomel on Friday March 31, 2023 @04:14PM (#35392922)

I think a more likely scenario is that people will romanticize the concept of intelligence so much that they continuously move the definition so that AI is excluded, excluding many humans in the process, until a fully romantic definition is embraced.

I think another possibility is that someone finds that "intelligence" is closer to a fundamental law of information theory, being some sort of emergent result of organizing/organized information, and that we're incredibly special for being capable, but not alone.

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Re:ChatGPT – The Revolutionary Bullshit Parrot by JumpCrisscross on Friday March 31, 2023 @05:19PM (#35393820)

> people will romanticize the concept of intelligence so much that they continuously move the definition

We already do this. Braindead patients are not sapient, so we don’t treat them as such. In one sense, the entire abortion debate is about drawing this line. (Hell, childrens’ rights relative to adults are based on agency, which is a legal term that looks remarkably like sapience.)

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Re:ChatGPT – The Revolutionary Bullshit Parrot by marshmellman on Friday March 31, 2023 @06:16PM (#35394449)

My hunch is that we’ll eventually realize that we never cared about intelligence in the first place, just “human-ness”.

After all, there’s very low moral concern for cows, pigs, dolphins, etc regardless of intelligence.

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