[stillwithit]

It’s also not artificial intelligence.

It’s electron state in a synthetic machine which has learned nothing about the world through its own agency and curiosity but the “sit, stay” demands of organic intelligence.

Universe already made matter twinkle with consciousness. Humans should come up with something actually new

[simonw]

Artificial Intelligence has been an academic discipline since 1956. Don't get distracted by science fiction: what OpenAI do is absolutely part of that discipline.

[stillwithit]

Academics have no authority to demand others normalize to their opinions.

I went through academia. They wanted people to come up with ideas back then.

Now they want people to normalize to theirs.

It’s just people in rooms waving around prestige words. None of them have broken physics. They normalize descriptions of observation, often incorrectly at great cost to others

Characterizing them like popes and tribal shaman whose outputs are inviolable truth is really odd

The symbolic logic and leaky abstractions of academics are crude approximations, not accurate representations of reality for which even a tiny inch of space would require infinite logic to describe. The translation to human language always leaves even more detail out.

Academia is often peddling a marketing gimmick to sell society on. Academics are people looking to capitalize first