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"We view this moment of hype around generative AI as dangerous. There is a pack mentality in rushing to invest in these tools, while overlooking the fact that they threaten workers and impact consumers by creating lesser quality products and allowing more erroneous outputs. For example, earlier this year America’s National Eating Disorders Association fired helpline workers and attempted to replace them with a chatbot. The bot was then shut down after its responses actively encouraged disordered eating behaviors. "
At least people are coming around to why it’s called AI. Artificial Intelligence is called that because it’s a facsimile of intelligence. It acts intelligent, but has no intellect. It’s an algorithm, usually one designed in a black box so no one can analyze exactly how the output occurred
The human brain is itself still largely a black box as far as our reasoning capabilities are concerned.
We don’t need to develop tech that can’t be analyzed directly. AI can and has been developed in a way that can be easily analyzed, like why an output was given.
Isn’t it called AI because marketing people don’t understand the difference?
We should call it: “Algorithmic Intelligence” or A.I. for short.
What do you think “it’s an algorithm” is supposed to imply? Can nothing deterministic be considered intelligent?
Also, “designed in a black box” is misleading. It’s opaque because it’s emergent behavior, not because it was obfuscated or designed in secrecy or something. The algorithm itself is simple. All the interesting data is encoded in the billions to trillions of input parameters. These parameters aren’t designed at all, they are learned.