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  • Johnjohnzajac@dice.camp
    Jul 1, 2026, 4:40 PM

    Reading an article about how "AI" has "solved intelligence" and

    I'm trying to imagine being so small-minded and parched for imagination that you think "intelligence" is bounded by the ability to, like, *do chess* or *parse language using averages*.

    The externalities and ethical depravity of "AI" are enough to render it non-viable as a technology; but consider the people who find it astonishing:

    I've always felt like "AI"s real tell was the pathetic scope of the people who fall for it.

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  • Johnjohnzajac@dice.camp
    Jul 1, 2026, 4:42 PM

    These are folks who *literally* think that the most basic and base expressions of intelligence are, somehow, it's entirety.

    What does that say about *them*, or the society that elevates them and their skillset?

    What it says to me is that many of us aren't qualified to have opinions on the structure, content, and nature of human society or culture. Or perhaps, even able to participate in it.

    And that our education infra seems to be producing this kind of perspective at a dizzying rate

    2/

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  • Johnjohnzajac@dice.camp
    Jul 1, 2026, 4:44 PM

    Basically, I don't think "AI" is going to do much of anything at all; it will collapse before most of its damage is permanent; and the damage it does cause, and the bits of the internet that survive that damage, will reveal the parts of the plane that are weakest and need reinforcing.

    BUT

    The neofascist shift of education over two generations away from liberal arts and toward STEM/"empiricism" - a result of which is the current "AI" bullshit - is going to take generations to undo.

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  • Sofia ☭🇧🇷☭sofiav@mastodon.online
    Jul 1, 2026, 4:45 PM

    @johnzajac can LLMs do chess now? Last I saw they were hilariously bad at chess. I mean, obviously chess engines exist, but they've existed for decades and no one called them AI

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  • Johnjohnzajac@dice.camp
    Jul 1, 2026, 4:48 PM

    @sofiav

    Yes, that's right! After screaming from the rooftops that we need to disambiguate between LLMs and other ML, I've made that mistake myself.

    The article uses the Chess-playing bots as a starting point, and I just ran away with it lol

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