I can see someone in the future watching a program run and asking "wow, is that ai? A PERSON typed those cryptic letters? No way!"

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[–] 40 points 1 year ago (3 children)

"After all, it was one of the first sectors to deploy A.I. programming in the 1980s, with the four ghosts who chase Pac-Man each responding differently to the player's real-time movements."

All the lines look blurry when you're squinting at things from a position of complete ignorance.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    In the not too distant future...

    NPC: "ChatGPT told me I got ghosts in my blood and I better inject bleach bout it"

    AI Corpo: "thankfully, no human programmed it to respond with that, so we are not liable"

    Fascist court: "NPC's family must pay AI Corpo damages for negative publicity"

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  • yeah, we should talk about "probabilistic" vs. "deterministic" behavior instead.

    all programs are somewhat intelligent. that's why computers were originally built, after all, to do a part of our workload. If they were completely stupid, we wouldn't really use any computers at all, so yes, intelligence is a necessary feature of every program. the question is whether it has well-defined deterministic behavior or not.

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