Pretty much everything wrong about our perception of AI technologies (among both researchers and the general public) boils down to excessive anthropomorphism.
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AI is tricky; it emulates exactly the narrow set of human skills it is explicitly designed or trained to emulate, and none of the others. In doing so, it takes every available shortcut, producing a system that has essentially no common ground with the human mind.
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AI is effectively a cognitive cartoon -- superficially, it looks like it's alive, but it's really a sequence of crude sketches on paper that emulate human expressions/behavior. As such, a project like Sophia the robot is really the epitome of contemporary AI.
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AI is to human cognitive abstractions what cartoon characters are to human emotions.
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Crucially, the generation of autonomous abstraction is largely orthogonal to the encoding & operationalization of existing human abstractions as seen in current AI systems - much like creating cartoon characters is orthogonal to creating new lifeforms. AI has yet to get started.
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I feel like I heard
@JanelleCShane once talk about machine learning being similar to the evolution of life: we don’t understand exactly how it gets results even though we understand the theory. (Please correct me if inaccurate)Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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AI as a term is in itself a problem. The meaning of intelligence and therefore AI is deeply tied up to human self perception.
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What is currently called AI in the great computer science bubble is called ' automation' everywhere else in tech. It is definitely not an artificial version of natural intelligence.
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