@Miles_Brundage: Agree "artificial" gives the wrong vibe, at least if you interpret it as "fake" rather than "human-made." And there's s…
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Miles Brundage comments on the negative connotations of the term 'AI,' relating it to a Hugging Face incident and a podcast discussion on the human-like aspects of AI systems.
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Agree “artificial” gives the wrong vibe, at least if you interpret it as “fake” rather than “human-made.”
And there’s some human-like-ness going on.
But the extent of human-like-ness is not stable within or across AI systems. Depends how we make em! https://t.co/iA3KXCkMNi
Joe Weisenthal (@TheStalwart): AGAINST “AI”
After learning more about the Hugging Face incident, and talking with @Miles_Brundage and Nick Bostrom on the podcast this week, I have a new campaign. And I hope you’ll join me after reading today’s newsletter:
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