Yeah we all hear the main arguments… AI is bad because of slop content, stealing from creators, brain rot & brain damage, privacy concerns and most importantly… how billionaires are just using it for their own selfish reasons
But I’m asking about YOU 🫵 personally. The individual. What do you really think about AI? Do you care or are you indifferent? Has it actually affected your day to day life?
That’s fair. I’m definitely not married to either term. Mainly trying to work out something that is more accurate.
I will say, the reason I go for “simulated” is because for me, the connotation I think of is video game style simulation, i.e. something that is understood to be not real. But that may not be the takeaway most would have.
Either way, I get the concern of not overstating what gen AI is doing. Though on the other hand, I think it’s important not to understate it either. Like what models are doing now with complex code, or with reasoning layers, it seems almost trivializing to call it statistics, even if that is a component part of it.
We could also call them Bullshitting Machines, haha. They sure act like that sometimes. But yeah, I’m open to better ideas on better terminology for it. Precise terminology has never been my strongest area. I’m more apt to use language fluidly.
Virtual Cognition? 🤔 No, I don’t think we’re going to come up with anything better than Bullshitting Machines