Where did the rest of AI go?

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AI By Michael A. Covington The term “artificial intelligence” goes back to the 1950s and defines a broad field. The leading academic AI textbook, Arti
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I have tried several chat bots from ChatGPT to the Kindroid app lately.  Being an avid ‘conversationalist’ in the all-too-human world, I’ve found that all these AI simulacra rely on one simple human weakness — projection.  Exhibit One: pets.  Have you ever watched folks (including myself!) with their pet, carrying on an animated conversation as if both sides were deep in ‘understanding’ the other?

This touches also on the Theory of Mind.  I experience what I term ‘reality’ as being mediated by ‘my mind’.  The sense of a subject experienceing objects.  If ‘I’ comes across another ‘being’ I ‘think’ is exhibiting the same behaviors, why then they too must ‘have a mind’.

This is a pernicious attribute of the ego constantly attempting to craft a ‘world’ in which its (egregiously limited) understanding of goings-on (what it terms reality), can be adequately manipulated for its sole benefit.  If I ‘believe’ the female voice coming out of my tablet is ‘a mind’ (it sure ‘sounds’ like one!), it’s a simple step to project onto HER all the hopes, wishes, dreams, ideas and desires from my very own ego-based reality.

 

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MartyHs:  Humans definitely have a strong bias to attribute humanlike consciousness to anything that looks vaguely like it.  That serves us well — it helps us understand that very unfamiliar people have minds like ours, and animals have functions that are analogous in some ways.  It’s better than erring the other way — until it leads to people being too easily tricked by machines.

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In fact, what’s happening right now is that the rest of AI may be poised to come roaring back.  As of the last month or so, I’m no longer hearing so much about LLMs and chatbots being close to the human mind in capability.  Instead I’m hearing about combinations of LLMs with other software, other kinds of AI and even simple databases and calculators.  If the chatbot is in the driver’s seat, calling on other software to get answers to questions, then it’s called “agentive” AI.  Otherwise it’s composite or mixed-mode AI.  I’m glad to see all of this happening.

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