Artificial intelligence: is there any other kind?
# 3050 Re human nature
On further thought. AI gets us thinking about I, human intelligence, with renewed openness and interest.
As I see it, AI is a stochastic machine that looks for the highest probability next word, given lots of tries of the surrounding words in the same terms. What was the weather like last Friday in NY gets a different context than what was the weather like on the day of Lincoln's assassination. The path that AI takes is to look at the next word possibilities and scratch those that don’t forget It might be this is exactly what human intelligence does - Being wet-ware that’s basic;;y more analog than digital it, is more casual, slower, and more prone to sloppiness, but the message is - human intelligence is much more like AI than we thought.
word prediction is a simple approximation to what ML can do...
if we include "meme progressions" then I think there's an argument that "that's all we are" also