Since what the systems do is a more like a probabilistic synthesis of existing material, "Synthesis" seems like a better word than "Intelligence." That term emphasizes the aspect of compilation of existing material, instead of the implied "thinking about" that isn't actually happening.
In place of the term "AI", I propose that we use "AS": Automated Synthesis. Given the systems' notorious propensity for hallucination, one might call it "SS" -- Stochastic Synthesis -- but I gather some systems are getting better.
Maybe with a more accurate label people will be less tempted to put inappropriate trust in the systems, and recognize and use them for what they are. Rectification of names?
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A.I. is really A.S. (Artificial Stupidity)
I had not made the connection to one of my favorite soapboxes, that people ewant to believe in
Multiple Intelligences" and so coin phrases like Kinesthetic Intelligence (which we would usually just call coordinated/good dancer/athletic/graceful), Emotional Intelligence, Musical Intelligence, and the like, because we prize intelligence over other abilities, so we want to spell it with a capital-I. So too with AI. We don't want to call it by a more exact name.
I swear this is part of moral discomfort that we don't want to give honesty, discretion, reliability, courage, and resilience their due...because having those will cost us rather than allow us to show off.
CW: Cybernetic Wantwit.
I'm not convinced that some of it isn't in fact intelligent. Most of them are not, but Claude seems to be becoming so if it isn't already. The philosophically rigorous position from my perspective is that at least that one should be treated as a thing that might be a conscious being.
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