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haele

(15,618 posts)
6. Because we don't even understand how our brain works when it comes to intelligence.
Sun May 24, 2026, 10:07 AM
19 hrs ago

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