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haele

(15,647 posts)
6. Because we don't even understand how our brain works when it comes to intelligence.
Sun May 24, 2026, 10:07 AM
May 24

And the capacity of AI's learning algorithms to mimic independent thought in a real world situation doesn't even reach the consistency and capacity of training a kitten.
Don't get me wrong, coding a machine to do something and using a LLM are useful for repetitive tasking and general knowledge search.

I mean, honestly - Computers or "AI", (along with Robots) in science fiction were always assistant augmentation. Cyborgs or enhanced humans/animals were the godlike creatures.
But when it comes independent intelligence, the robots or created machine typically did not evolve into human-like awareness with preferences and actual complex personalities.
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Make no mistake, what Tech Bros really want is a compliant version of the Blade Runner androids; short lived, replaceable TradWife/Stepford Wife style sexbots and Rutger Hauer looking cloned security bots to follow their every whim until they get bored.
They're still just clever monkeys trying to control their environment. They just forgot that intellectual evolution requires cooperation and more diversity within the community hierarchy.
And that without community or diversity, all species just die out. No "Singularity" can save us, until there can be a several independentcomputer model that can simulate the lifetime of an organic African Grey or Corvus brain function and the different traits and personality at the very least.
It isn't our mathematical intelligence that makes us "human".

It's our independent conceptual thought processes, our ability to say to ourselves"What If" with no trigger or reason to react to anything. There's no survival, evolutionary, or logical reason for anyone to come up with Quantum Physics, or to even conceptualize it. No reason for us to "improve" ourselves that much, and certainly not to try to destroy ourselves... Not now, or not in the past.

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OK, they can go first. tanyev May 24 #1
no. not for me. rampartd May 24 #2
There's a great series of A.I./CGI heavy videos LuvLoogie May 24 #3
Gossip Goblin isn't so much a group as one guy using AI to produce AI slop, even though a lot of people might highplainsdem May 24 #10
I get what you're saying. I just think it's well done LuvLoogie May 24 #15
I talk about AI being an unethical, illegally trained tool that enables fake highplainsdem May 24 #18
The Pope's take on A.I. drops tomorrow in a new Encyclical. Ron Green May 24 #4
Sorry, Scotty, I plan to be John the Savage in this brave new world dedl67 May 24 #5
Because we don't even understand how our brain works when it comes to intelligence. haele May 24 #6
"We should all want one team where all members care about the well-being of everyone else"... GiqueCee May 24 #7
I might be persuaded that things less ignorant than humans could be built... Hugin May 24 #8
I hope the apocalypse comes first blubunyip May 24 #9
These idiots (yes, they are idiots) grew up watching dystopian science fiction... hunter May 24 #11
AI bros like Zuck and Altman can't even interface with humans yet nuxvomica May 24 #12
It's our 21st Century Tower of Babble. MineralMan May 24 #13
These 'people' are insane. travelingthrulife May 24 #14
AI can't even do spell check properly...never seen so many made up words, travelingthrulife May 24 #16
"We were knee-deep in the Big Muddy. The big fool said to push on" struggle4progress May 24 #17
"Resistance is futile" Mossfern May 24 #19
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