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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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It’s really good at making us feel like it’s intelligent, but that’s no more real than a good VR headset convincing us to walk into a physical wall.

It’s a meta version of VR.

(Meta meta, if you will.)

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[–] chosensilence@pawb.social 2 points 1 day ago (3 children)

AI is here to stay as they've already moved on to calling what is actual AI AGI (artificial general intelligence). so look out for AGI in the future because it's not too far off.

[–] ch00f@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

"The loser in an argument about the meaning of the word 'hoverboard' is anyone who leaves that argument on foot."

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago

Or AGI is a good way to move the goal posts after you’ve overhyped your hoverboard which doesn’t really hover.

So what you're saying is we gotta knock em over, steal their hoverboards and run away before we bust out the dictionary

[–] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

In the 80s people be calling a pathfinding algorithm Artificial Intelligence.

I have a whole book written in the 90s about artificial intelligence with if..else statements.

We haven't move the goal anywhere, artificial intelligence in computer science always have been used for things that are not truly intelligent. Basically any more or less complex algorithm that is made to mimic human behavior or to interact with humans in some sort of human-like way.