19 Jan
2025
19 Jan
'25
5:12 a.m.
On Sun, Jan 19, 2025 at 12:42 PM Frank Leonhardt via cctalk <
cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
I'd say yes and no to that. But then I don't consider generative AI to
be anything to do with actual Artificial Intelligence either. I wrote
about this stuff in the 1990s and called these things Simulated
Intelligence, a term which never took off but which I stand by to this day!
It's a good description.
I like to parse the 'artificial' differently. It's not AN artificial
intelligence - a manufactured entity that exhibits intelligence - it's JUST
artificial intelligence - something that appears to be intelligence but
isn't, like artificial turf.
I hope that one day we will have machine intelligences. But I'm unsure that
merely imitating how they might look is a path to that.