People always wanna classify AI as super smart or super dumb, similar to the human brain or randomly guessing words and doing an ok job. But that is very subjective and it's sliding a little fader between two points that differ in definition slightly for every person.
If we actually wanted to approach the question of "how intelligent are AIs compared to humans" we would need to write a lot of word definitions first, and I'm sure the answer at the end will be just as helpful as a shoulder shrug and an unenthusiastic "about half as intelligent". And that's why these comparisons are stupid.
If AI is a good tool to us, great. If not, alright let's skip and go straight to the next bigger discovery, and stop getting hung up on semantics.
Specifically in rescue swimmer training they will teach you to push the drowning person away if they grab onto you the wrong way, otherwise you will be drowning too. You basically need to force them into the right hold, because they are acting solely on survival reflexes and those entail grabbing something and pulling yourself up out of the water, which might sink whatever they are holding onto.
I have taught highschool teens about AI between 2018 and 2020.
The issue is we are somewhere between getting better at gambling (statistics, Markov chains, etc.) and human brain simulation (deep neural networks, genetic algorithms).
For many people it's important how we frame it. Is it random word generator with a good hit rate or is it a very stupid child?
Of course the brain is more advanced - it has way more neurons than an AI model has nodes, it works faster and we have years of "training data". Also, we can use specific parts of our brains to think, and some things are so innate we don't even have to think about it, we call them reflexes and they bypass the normal thinking process.
BUT: we're at the stage where we could technically emulate chunks of a human brain through AI models however primitive they are currently. And in it's basic function, brains are not really much more advanced than what our AI models already do. Although we do have a specific part for our brain just for languages, which means we get a little cheat code for writing text in comparison to AI, and similar other parts for creative tasks and so on.
So where do you draw the line? Do you need all different parts of a brain perfectly emulated to satisfy the definition of intelligence? Is artificial intelligence a word awarded to less intelligent models or constructs, or is it just as intelligent as human intelligence?
Imo AI sufficiently passes the vibe check on intelligence. Sure it's not nearly on the scale of a human brain and is missing it's biological arrangements and some clever evolutionary tricks, but it's similar enough.
However, I think that's neither scary nor awesome. It's just a different potential tool that should help everyone of us. Every time big new discoveries shape our understanding of the world and become a core part of our lives, there's so much drama. But it's just a bigger change, nothing more nothing less. A pile of new laws, some cultural shifts and some upgrades for our everyday life. It's neither heaven nor hell, just the same chunk of rock floating in space soup for another century.
Yeah that is the weirdest way to flirt. If she touches you, that's more clear but touching your food is not really understood as a display of affection.
Omg that is spot on. It really looks like they fired everyone but one guy who is busting off his ass to "get a game done" in the same development cycle.
Because you can see he's trying but there's no way he can actually fill this content desert.
I do wanna say that as someone with autism, people do not treat it as wholesome in relationships. It's definitely given a bit of leeway but in the grant scheme of things people will respect the idea of autism, but no one actually cares about what I deal with on a day-to-day basis and it sucks because people still get mad at you when they inevitably don't realize a lot of things happen because of it.
I just have to assume a lot of people get used to the idea of mental disabilities, but they can not deal with them in person.
Yes. As much as I hate Diddy, the big charges were very hard to prove and one could say this outcome speaks highly of the jury's regard for a just outcome, and proves they put feelings aside.
Feelings are valid, but you are supposed to leave your feelings at the front of the courthouse, otherwise verdicts would be very volatile and trials would be an indictment on the person, and not what they did.
That would be insane from separation of power perspective (which admittedly doesn't look great, but we're not at that point yet).
Because it's so many victims, Epstein was federal, and this means it's in the hands of the FBI, although they would probably have a dedicated team just for this.
But the FBI only interfaces with the DOJ in that regard afaik, so the president should have no say in this. And another agency most definitely does not unless this interjects government processes of those agencies, which it does not.
Because of all the shenanigans going on we can never be 100% sure but this has layers of separation from DOGE.
I don't write essays often, but when I do it is because things are bothering me. Specifically, these memes are plenty and basically tell me someone like me doesn't exist. When this collides with people who say things like "I honestly can't imagine how you can use windows with all the crap" I get annoyed, and at this point I just wanted to make sure the people who write this know that there's lots of people like me who have good reasons.
I'm sorry but I can't dedicate the time. Last time I tried to install it for someone else I went down a 5h rabbit hole of finding a driver for a scanner, and I was at the point where I had custom pkg repositories and needed to fix pkg dependency conflicts myself and I don't have the OS knowledge to do all this, and I didn't have time because I had to travel back again.
When I tried installing it for myself, I was missing critical software for a variety of things. For example, there's no good DAW on Linux, and even if there was, lots of VST plugins are only Linux compatible. Things like Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe After Effects have no solid alternative to this day for Linux and hence I'm struggling to replace them. Blender is on Linux (obv) but for example render engines usually only come with software for windows.
And then there's a bunch of things where I'm not sure how compatible they are even if they were to run on Linux. Office uses proprietary file format constraints to lock down their ecosystem. Sucks, but everyone uses it, so I'm stuck. Unreal Engine, lots games, my audio interface, drivers for obscure small devices I need? I just don't know and I have to dedicate time to researching all of it.
I hope you can see why someone like me has a very hard time just switching over. Yes I can just pull the plug and do it, but I will get no work done for a solid 2 weeks and even after that I will be heavily constrained.
And this all on top of the fact that I regularly set up Linux VMs for specific things which break way too often on regular use. Which also does not spark joy.
I hope you can understand why I'm fine debloating windows with Chris Titus for half an hour and then just enjoying 4 years on it without worrying about all of that is easier.
And believe me, I bought a notebook and will try to go CachyOS x KDE Plasma on that, but it will be an experiment and I have lots of doubt that this can replace my setup.
Exactly.
People always wanna classify AI as super smart or super dumb, similar to the human brain or randomly guessing words and doing an ok job. But that is very subjective and it's sliding a little fader between two points that differ in definition slightly for every person.
If we actually wanted to approach the question of "how intelligent are AIs compared to humans" we would need to write a lot of word definitions first, and I'm sure the answer at the end will be just as helpful as a shoulder shrug and an unenthusiastic "about half as intelligent". And that's why these comparisons are stupid.
If AI is a good tool to us, great. If not, alright let's skip and go straight to the next bigger discovery, and stop getting hung up on semantics.