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   Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 04-Dec-2023 19:17:12 JST Aral Balkan

   Fake Intelligence is where we try to simulate intelligence by feeding huge amounts of dubious information to algorithms we don’t fully understand to create approximations of human behaviour where the safeguards that moderate the real thing provided by family, community, culture, personal responsibility, reputation, and ethics are replaced by norms that satisfy the profit motive of corporate entities.

   #fakeIntelligence #artificialIntelligence #ai #machineLearning #ml #largeLanguageModels #llm

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 04-Dec-2023 19:29:41 JST Aral Balkan

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     What the Fake Intelligence folks do not understand is that we are more than just the sum of our neurons.

     We are social animals.

     Our intelligence is social intelligence.

     And our behaviour isn’t separate to our ephemeral biological reality but inextricably intertwined with it; shaped and tempered by it.

     A mere summary of the sum total of human output cannot emulate the human condition. We are defined as much by the information we internalise as by that which we reject.

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 04-Dec-2023 20:23:18 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Remença

     @remenca Indeed, the jury is still out if our species will make it out of its destructive adolescence stage. But if it’s this bad with them in place, imagine what it would be like without them.

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     Remença (remenca@mastodont.cat)'s status on Monday, 04-Dec-2023 20:23:21 JST Remença

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     @aral Oh, yes, that social intelligence that allows us to constantly kill each other while we destroy our planet. Great safeguards, they are working beautifully.

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 04-Dec-2023 20:44:29 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Remença

     @remenca Don’t tempt them.

     (Something tells me things are going to get much worse before they get better.)

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     Remença (remenca@mastodont.cat)'s status on Monday, 04-Dec-2023 20:44:30 JST Remença

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     @aral I don't think it could be much worse, honestly.

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 04-Dec-2023 20:53:32 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Remença

     @remenca Indeed.

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     Remença (remenca@mastodont.cat)'s status on Monday, 04-Dec-2023 20:53:33 JST Remença

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     @aral I do share you pessimistic views, but I don't blame AI or doubt of their abilities (moral reasoning with LLMs is an area that has produced several scientific works such as this https://arxiv.org/pdf/2308.15399.pdf). I blame the humans who are leading its development with the ill motivations of getting richer no matter the cost. It is capitalism, not AI, what is the problem here.