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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish6•18 days agoThat’s a disturbing handwave. “We don’t really know what intelligence is, so therefore, anything we call intelligence is fair game” A thermometer tells me what temperature it is. It senses the ambient heat energy and responds with a numeric indicator. Is that intelligence? My microwave stops when it notices steam from my popcorn bag. Is that intelligence? If I open an encyclopedia book to a page about computers, it tells me a bunch of information about computers. Is that intelligence? arrow-up16arrow-down10file-textreply1starmore-verticalmailMessageflagCreate ReportslashBlock user
minus-square@AA5BlinkEnglish1•17 days agoIf AI helps us realize that a thermometer fits the definition of Intelligence when it shouldn’t, then it’s entirely valid to refine the definition arrow-up11arrow-down10file-textreply1starmore-verticalmailMessageflagCreate ReportslashBlock user
That’s a disturbing handwave. “We don’t really know what intelligence is, so therefore, anything we call intelligence is fair game”
A thermometer tells me what temperature it is. It senses the ambient heat energy and responds with a numeric indicator. Is that intelligence?
My microwave stops when it notices steam from my popcorn bag. Is that intelligence?
If I open an encyclopedia book to a page about computers, it tells me a bunch of information about computers. Is that intelligence?
If AI helps us realize that a thermometer fits the definition of Intelligence when it shouldn’t, then it’s entirely valid to refine the definition