AI Definition Debate
The cluster centers on debates about what qualifies as 'real' AI, with commenters arguing over distinctions between artificial intelligence and human-like cognition, moving goalposts for AI achievements, and misconceptions that AI must mimic human intelligence.
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it's only AI if you believe it
> It's not AI if I can understand what it's doing- found on the internet, 2021
Who said it was 'an AI'? Do you understand what intelligence means? And what artificial means?
The question said "AI" - not "self-aware consciousness"
What's cognitive about this AI any more than other AIs?
Everything that we understand how to do is "not really AI". It's only "AI" when it's still a mystery. At least that's the way people act.
No one's looking for AI that's only as smart as the dumbest humans.
Still technically "artificial" and a form of "intelligence"!
We'll never build true AI, just reach some point where we prove humans aren't really all that intelligent either
The most common misconception about AI is that it will "mimic human level intelligence or better". Human intelligence is an infinitesimally small sliver of possible conscious entities with agency, and whatever "wakes up" enough for headlines to declare AI is real will almost certainly be worlds apart from us.