From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Sat Jun 30 2001 - 05:00:53 MDT
Harvey Newstrom wrote:
>
> 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!
Yep. Lets kill AI yet again by overhyping the term in every way
[un]imaginable. Then the gullible can say, "See? It doesn't
work" yet again and possibly kill off some important languages
and technology in the process much like last time around.
- samantha
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