"There was an exchange on Twitter a while back where someone said, ‘What is artificial intelligence?' And someone else said, 'A poor choice of words in 1954'," he says. "And, you know, they’re right. I think that if we had chosen a different phrase for it, back in the '50s, we might have avoided a lot of the confusion that we're having now."
So if he had to invent a term, what would it be? His answer is instant: applied statistics. "It's genuinely amazing that...these sorts of things can be extracted from a statistical analysis of a large body of text," he says. But, in his view, that doesn't make the tools intelligent. Applied statistics is a far more precise descriptor, "but no one wants to use that term, because it's not as sexy".
'The machines we have now are not conscious', Lunch with the FT, Ted Chiang, by Madhumita Murgia, 3 June/4 June 2023
horse dutifully typing away on a comically large keyboard in front of a beautiful icelandic landscape that is the life right there i wonder if this horse is typing peaceful and joyful messages or sending 20 slurs directly into my inbox
Crows are some of the smartest creatures in the animal kingdom. They are capable of making rule-guided decisions and of creating and using tools. They also appear to show an innate sense of what numbers are. Researchers now report that these clever birds are able to understand recursion—the process of embedding structures in other, similar structures—which was long thought to be a uniquely human ability.
Recursion is a key feature of language. It enables us to build elaborate sentences from simple ones. Take the sentence “The mouse the cat chased ran.” Here the clause “the cat chased” is enclosed within the clause “the mouse ran.” For decades, psychologists thought that recursion was a trait of humans alone. Some considered it the key feature that set human language apart from other forms of communication between animals. But questions about that assumption persisted. “There’s always been interest in whether or not nonhuman animals can also grasp recursive sequences,” says Diana Liao, a postdoctoral researcher at the lab of Andreas Nieder, a professor of animal physiology at the University of Tübingen in Germany.
make an affirmations tape and listen to ur affirmations so that then u can impress ur subconscious and feed it what u want it to show you. make sure that ur saying ur affirmations everyday so that then u can affirm ur reality ✨
if u dont know how to create an affirmations tape then i recommend the app parrot because it just loops the affirmations until i turn it off so thats rly helpful, i listen when i sleep. and although the app is convenient I LOVE TO AFFIRM so i'd do it manually too.
UR MINDS A MUSCLE ;
if ur not exercising a muscle, eventually it'll wither away right? the mind is the same way. to keep ur mind sharp, read more books. my aim is to usually read one book per month, sometimes i exceed that.
crossward puzzles
reading non-fiction books
listening to podcasts
if ur not into reading, listen to podcasts or do things like crossword puzzles (things that'll cause ur mind to expand) but please try and read cuz its rly rly good for you.
THE POWER OF A JOURNAL ;
journal briefly every night before bed to empty out ur brain before u sleep. this also helps if u are anxious and can't sleep because ur getting it out of ur mind -> and onto paper to deal with tomorrow.
also keeping a diary is an amazing way to keep track of time and talk about what u think about and whats on ur mind and ur feelings ALL OF THAT. it truly helps u to learn about urself and see things in a different perspective so that u can learn from urself.