AI misnamed?

[Fraidycat]

The latest chatbots are Intelligent, just a different type of intelligence from us. They are no longer Artificial, they are some different form of real intelligence.

What they are not is conscious/sentient/self aware in the way we are. That is because we don't know how consciousness comes about, so have no idea how to re create it either. Although we can program the AI to say act like it is self aware and conscious.

Personally i think our organic brains can tap into the conscious nature of the universe, while computers are just electrical signals without that ability yet.

[TwoWolves]

The headline-grabbing 'AI' is nothing more than a data scraping and spit it back out with a side order of propaganda exercise.

The clever stuff is more what I'd call machine learning and still isn't intelligent because it requires a human to process the outputs. So, things like new drug formulations, x-ray / MRI scan analysis, air traffic movements, weather stuff, etc are all super cutting edge number crunching and probability machines but they don't provide the insights or intelligence although they are good at spotting anomalies and trends.

Exactly. Not intelligence in any form at all but it does fool the dim-witted.

Heuristic pattern interpretation algorithms combined with a natural language-based search engine. Essentially, if it's been said before it can say it again to you - an NPC aggregator of sorts. It won't "solve" problems though, unless some human solved it and put it on the web first.

[sadkingbilly]

The latest chatbots are Intelligent, just a different type of intelligence from us. They are no longer Artificial, they are some different form of real intelligence.

Personally i think our organic brains can tap into the conscious nature of the universe, while computers are just electrical signals without that ability yet.

aye, - right!

[tazdevil]

As already so eloquently discussed in the other replies AI is anything but intelligence and will summon the end of human advancement if utilised as some sort of panacea as all its doing is regurgitating and spinning what we already have The latest Chinese AI is nothing but a propaganda tool.

[vetran]

If you train a dog to detect drugs or explosives is the dog intelligent because of the training? Or just well trained? Of course it is just well trained. The dog however is an intelligence whether trained or not.

As above it needs to become self aware which is the destination for AI. We are nowhere near that yet. Plenty of Sci Fi writers have discussed this for years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke%27s_three_laws

Let us revere the words of the Prophet Clarke and understand that most people don't.

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”

So yes training machines is just ML. AI is just ML with the safety off allowed to make assumptions based on whatever they are trained on so basically a leftie or rightie loon.

[vetran]

The latest Chinese AI is nothing but a commercial and intelligence spying tool.

I agree but I suspect like the stuff our government buy from china it will have been infected.

[MarillionFan]

Basically Neural Networking on acid.

[Paddy]

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[milanbenes]

ffs you lot

who gives a monkeeees about all that, there's gonna be good money in this stuff for a long time so buckle up and get in on it

AI is now the UI

Milan.

[milanbenes]

it amazes me the velocity of the enterprise technology these days, and it is so interesting and there's so much to learn and play with, my contracting has become my hobby and to be honest, it's so interesting, it's almost a shame that during the coming ten years I'll be retiring

these days in the enterprise technology we're are just getting paid to play with new stuff at a velocity that I've never seen in my career and so wide and so deep

what's not to like

Milan.