From: Harvey Newstrom (mail@HarveyNewstrom.com)
Date: Fri Jun 29 2001 - 14:58:13 MDT
Eliezer S. Yudkowsky wrote,
> To call Mindpixel an AI project is an abuse of the term. And to
> administer the MMPI to it is raw, unvarnished cheating of such an enormous
> order that the chutzpah of every past inflated claim in the history of AI
> pales in comparison. I don't think the technical term "Friendly", or
> "unFriendly", can be applied to chatbots.
I must agree here. I am seeing an unfortunate tendency to ascribe
Artificial Intelligence or Artificial Consciousness to anything big and
complicated or fancy. Search engines, databases, lookup tables, fuzzy logic
and chatbots are not AIs! Not even close!
-- Harvey Newstrom <http://HarveyNewstrom.com> <http://Newstaff.com>
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