alt Hacker NewsThis is not an impulse reaction, as I've thought deeply about this for many years, and I'm quite resolute in holding the following view:
Quibbling over the academic nature/definition of "true intelligence" is a terrifically useless endeavor from the lens of evaluating "practical impact to the world".
Regardless of whether or not one academically disagrees that these systems are intelligent, they are clearly already capable of permanently displacing a portion of human-based economic value. A small portion currently, but it's very clear that most computer-bound domains are imminently at-risk.
And that will profoundly affect the world, regardless of whether or not they're "truly intelligent" as per your personal definition.
> Regardless of whether or not one academically disagrees that these systems are intelligent, they are clearly already capable of permanently displacing a portion of human-based economic value.
You say that as if the intelligence con trick were not a major driver of that displacement.
A dimwitted bot does not need intelligence to convince a dimwitted human beings it is intelligent.