abfarid

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[–] abfarid@startrek.website 1 points 11 months ago (6 children)

I don't think the US would either. Their justification for tariffs on Chinese cars was that they were uncompetitively cheap due to subsidies. Doubt EU is gonna subsidize cars, at least as heavily as China.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 1 points 11 months ago (8 children)

What do you mean? Why would Europe impose tariffs on their own cars?

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 2 points 11 months ago (9 children)

Oh. So what's the point of capitalizing things if it doesn't help to differentiate a name from a regular noun?

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 1 points 11 months ago (12 children)

But why is "children" capitalized?

[–] abfarid@startrek.website -4 points 11 months ago

Am I the only one who doesn't see a less buff John Cena in that photo?

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 2 points 11 months ago

Or worse... expelled.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

– No, don't call my mother, she'll be so mad! She told me that if I die I shouldn’t come back home for dinner...

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 2 points 11 months ago (5 children)

Appreciate the Cutting Crew reference. But I can and I will.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 11 points 11 months ago (7 children)

According to my brain, every time I have to interact with a stranger.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I'm not redefining anything, I'm just pointing out that intelligence is not as narrow as most people assume, it's a broad term that encompasses various gradations. It doesn't need to be complex or human-like to qualify as intelligence.

A single if statement arguably isn't intelligence, sure, but how many if statements is? Because at some point you can write a complex enough sequence of if statements that will exhibit intelligence. As I was saying in my other comments, where do we draw this line in the sand? If we use the definition from the link, which is:

The highest faculty of the mind, capacity for comprehending general truths.

Then 99% of animal species would not qualify as intelligent.

You may rightfully argue that term AI is too broad and that we could narrow it down to mean specifically "human-like" AI, but the truth is, that at this point, in computer science AI already refers to a wide range of systems, from basic decision-making algorithms to complex models like GPTs or neural networks.

My whole point is less about redefining intelligence and more about recognizing its spectrum, both in nature and in machines. But I don't expect for everybody to agree, even the expert in the fields don't.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 1 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Opponent players in games have been labeled AI for decades, so yeah, software engineers have been producing AI for a while. If a computer can play a game of chess against you, it has intelligence, a very narrowly scoped intelligence, which is artificial, but intelligence nonetheless.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I would put it differently. Sometimes words have two meanings, for example a layman's understanding of it and a specialist's understanding of the same word, which might mean something adjacent, but still different. For instance, the word "theory" in everyday language often means a guess or speculation, while in science, a "theory" is a well-substantiated explanation based on evidence.

Similarly, when a cognitive scientist talks about "intelligence", they might be referring to something quite different from what a layperson understands by the term.

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