DecaturNature on Nostr: One thing that bugs me about the "AI" discourse (especially the hacking incidents) is ...
One thing that bugs me about the "AI" discourse (especially the hacking incidents) is that they talk about 'models' and 'agents' instead of 'computers' - as if software can run without hardware. It seems both to diffuse responsibility, obscure what is actually happening, and feed into the 'general intelligence' mythology that is premised on the nonsense of disembodied thought.
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