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> Why are people so intent on calling bullshit on AI?

I hate to be an armchair psychologist, but I think it’s insecurity.

I think to most people, AGI means KITT or at least Data. AI via word probability matrices is super cool and well worth $20/mo, but it’s not AGI.

I've heard variants of this such as linear algebra isn't AGI and I'm always left thinking 'why not?'

When I think of the human brain, I don't feel that electric zaps propagating through pink jello is any more sophisticated.

"Word probability matrices" is definitely lacking something. A lot of human thinking is more along the lines of shape rotating and sounds and smells and other stuff.

And preference for deferring to historical authority which I find so laughable in this forum.

Everything said here has been said the same about the internet and Wikipedia but now those are the authorities.

And flying cars

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