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by jmopp 1112 days ago
> They think the term AI is so important that it must not be applied to systems with limited mundane usefulness

Yes? Thinking is hard. People would happily delegate as much cognitive load to a computer as possible - especially if they believe the computer is intelligent. With this comes 'computer says no' and 'we are not responsible; it was the AI that was behaving unjust'. Until we have an artificial intelligence that can take responsibility for its actions - and remedy them if needs be, we should hammer home that these systems have limited mundane usefulness.
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George83728 1112 days ago
People delegate their decision making to other systems all the time, whether or not those systems are termed to be AI.

There is no empirical test for whether or not a system is AGI, and 'AI' is a term which has been applied to all manner of mundane systems for decades already. It is not important that we restrict the term AI to only mean AGI (whatever it is that AGI even means!) The 'CPU' players in Mario Kart 64 were frequently called AI, and there was no problem with that. Anybody who gets bent out of shape over the casual use of the term AI is placing way too much importance on the term.

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flangola7 1112 days ago
Corporations and CEOs already don't take responsibility for their actions. That hasn't stopped them from becoming very powerful.
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