Bill BennettThis post (published four years ago) upset a few people at the time. The AI scene has changed, but the point made here still stands today.
Strypey"Things have moved fast in the last decade, but today's AI is more about sifting through vast piles of data than building machines that think."
@billbennett, 2021
https://billbennett.co.nz/general-artificial-intelligence/
Bang on. But I find some people struggle to believe that these algorithms aren't thinking. Maybe because they really *want* machines that think to be a thing, and decades of pop sci-fi have primed them to believe it's likely to happen. Sprinkle on a little hype dust, and ...
@billbennett's 2021 piece on AI hype references a paper by Ragnar Fjelland entitled Why general artificial intelligence will not be realized. Here's a permanent link to it;
@strypey Thanks.
I had a link to that paper originally, but it had link-rot so I removed it without looking for a replacement.
@billbennett
> it had link-rot so I removed it
DOIs are your friend ; ) There are a few other persistent link systems, but DOI is the one I see most frequently, especially for academic papers.
@strypey It does redirect, but I "think" it's a benign redirect.
@billbennett
> It does redirect
Yes it does. The idea is that the DOI always points to the canonical version of the article. If the original link rots, as it did in your case, the DOI can be repointed to a live page. If those in control of the linked website start monkeying with the article contents, the DOI can be repointed to a bona fide version approved by the author(s).
> but I "think" it's a benign redirect
The DOI Foundation ensures the integrity of this. See the link in my last post.
@strypey All true.
I took an A Level in Computer Science in 1977 in the UK. As part of the course we looked at the Eliza program and its code. People thought THAT program could think even though it only had a dozen responses. Today's chatbots have the appearance of thinking, but they are, at core, just versions of Eliza with millions of possible responses.