LouisMay 9
Angus McIntyre
All these headlines about how AI makes people lazy and dumb make me feel very smug, because I was lazy and dumb long before AI came along.
May 8 at 11:30amIvory for Mac
Show threadWordstitcher May 8
@angusm
But at least everyone knows who to blame if a person makes a mistake, or is 'lazy and dumb'. How do you get satisfaction from AI? Pull out the plug?
Anyone who relies on AI gets what they deserve - artificially-generated responses (intelligence doesn't come into it).
Show threadParade du Grotesque 💀May 8

@angusm

Huzzah! A gentleman of culture and taste!

Show threadSteve Thompson PhDMay 8
@angusm Good point. They really should say AI makes people lazier and dumber.
Show threadHarry KaradimasMay 8
@angusm Ok, so if we go the other way, and invent Artificial Dumbness (some say we're close), would it make us intelligent ?
Show threadChris FoxMay 8
@harry_karadimas @angusm What we currently have is Artificial Stupidity.
Show threadHarry KaradimasMay 8
@foxcj @angusm Progress !
In AI of the 70's, Stupidity was only natural
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1045339.1045340
Artificial intelligence meets natural stupidity | ACM SIGART Bulletin

As a field, artificial intelligence has always been on the border of respectability, and therefore on the border of crackpottery. Many critics <Dreyfus, 1972>, <Lighthill, 1973> have urged that we are over the border. We have been very defensive toward ...

ACM SIGART Bulletin
Show threadChris FoxMay 8
@harry_karadimas @angusm Indeed, "… in AI, our programs to a great degree are problems rather than solutions." McDermott, 1975.
Show threadderptronMay 8
@angusm It seriously adds nothing to the conversation, it just makes it faster.
Show threadWendy NatherMay 8
@angusm @jack_daniel Before it was cool?
Show thread<10%May 8
@angusm If we're having a competition...
Show thread🐜May 8
@angusm me 2
Show threadAgnieszka R. TurczyńskaMay 8
@angusm Rel! 😅
Show threadBen HammondMay 8

@angusm

but there is always room for improvement

Show threadRaymond RussellMay 8

RE: https://mastodon.social/@angusm/116538724261112735

@angusm
I resemble this toot

Show threadxs4me2May 8

@angusm

It actually could make me look smarter than I am!
First I needed to go to a library or actually at minimum have an encyclopedia to look things up. After that came the internet and then the search engines. Then came wikipedia and more online sources.
Now algorithms in LLM will explore the untamable sea of information for me.
If I can ask the right questions and trust what these mumbling tools will tell me to please me. Which I in fact can verify because all this time I did it myself.

Show threadPxl PhileMay 8

@angusm *takes out pipe from mouth*

I'll say! These new-dumbs certainly will never attain the class we have, don't they, old sport.

Jenkins! Please fetch me the newest tabloid, thanks. Harrumph!

Show threadlobingeraMay 8
@angusm this is the way
Show threadEhay2kMay 8

@angusm

#trendsetter

Show thread@iveylineMay 9
@angusm I was lazy and dumb too - but also happy!