@mcc I had this half formed thought about what pisses me off about AI yesterday, which your point frames better.

I just don’t want computers to work like this. I don’t want weird black boxes, that are almost certainly highly unreliable, that are plumbed together on the fly by some “agent”.

I hate that, and I think it’s shit.

I believe computers can be highly reliable, robust, transparent, and understandable.

I desperately want them to be like that, especially as an extension of myself.

The AI approach seems to be entirely conceding that aim and embrace “it doesn’t matter how it works if it usually gets the job done”.

I don’t want that.