It’s not surprising that humans, who often conflate verbosity with intelligence and confidence with accuracy, would deem a machine capable of spewing seemingly infinite amounts of plausible-sounding bullshit to be intelligent.
@aral Wow, that's hell of a diss at Jordan Peterson! (Not that I mind dissing JP.)
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I wonder if Boris Johnson, renowned for confident verbosity used an AI speechwriter? It's clear Trump does - but then fails to read the autocue correctly.
@aral spewing with unabashed confidence
@aral And that explains too why it's so popular in education.
@aral Still sounds like a politician spouting a lot of circumspect talking points instead of a person directly and succinctly responding to a question to me.

@aral "The best way to achieve these goals is to make our ___ not stupid before making them smart. ___ give the illusion of intelligence when they are placed in well-thought-out setups, are responsive to the ___, [...] and behave in interesting ways."

Botta, Mark. Infected AI in The Last of Us, Game AI Pro 2 – Collected Wisdom of Game AI – edited by Rabin, Steven.

(underlines are mine)

https://celsobessa.com.br/2023/03/01/a-lot-of-what-is-called-artificial-intelligence-is-less-stupid-looking-automation/

A lot of what is called artificial intelligence is less-stupid-looking automation - Celso Bessa (sɛwsʊ bɛ:sa)

I was reading an article about the "artificial intelligence" of antagonists in the first The Last of Us, and there is something I believe applies to 90% of what the industry calls artificial intelligence: "[...] to make the Infected feel grounded, entertaining, and believable.The best way to achieve these goals…

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