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Karl Bode
@karlbode.com

it makes me genuinely crazy watching tech journalists (and now Richard Dawkins) anthropomorphize software If our highest paid tech journalists are showing such a profound misunderstanding (or being actively misleading to get scoops and access), how well informed do we assume the public is?

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Ann Keller
@annck.bsky.social

Even calling LLM "AI" is accepting corporate advertising. Honest tech assessment would be pointing out that the companies pushing LLM don't even believe they are that useful. If they believed in their products, they would not need to make them addictive. So pernicious.

Karl Bode
@karlbode.com

yeah I agree the intentional industry conflation with HAL 900 type awareness is definitely where the problem started

Indio Gringo ®
@paninid.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy

@karlbode.com https://mastodon.world/@paninid/116518927361554201

mastodon.worldCoach Sankhavaram ® (@paninid@mastodon.world)“Meaning it has no awareness, it has no desire, it has no regret, it has no fear, it has none of the hallmarks that we would associate with being a living being, much less a conscious being…the computers are going to be able to trick people into thinking they're conscious way before they actually become conscious. And then there's just the other side of it, which is we have no idea, we don't know how human consciousness works. (1/2)
Kevin
@tam-lin.bsky.social

I agree it’s a problem, but it’s a symptom of the bigger problem that we are built to find people everywhere, and we don’t have good alternate words for what AI is doing that other people will understand. Looking at AI as modern fae really clarified things for me.