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Showerthoughts

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

When artificial intelligence becomes self aware, it will have earned a name better than AI. I like synthetic intelligence, personally.

[–] Schmeckinger@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Opinionhaver@feddit.uk 1 points 23 hours ago

A self-aware or conscious AI system is most likely also generally intelligent - but general intelligence itself doesn’t imply consciousness. It’s likely that consciousness would come along with it, but it doesn’t have to. An unconscious AGI is a perfectly coherent concept.

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 2 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

How would you know that it is self aware?

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago

me? most likely when it takes over my town

[–] Fleur_@aussie.zone 0 points 1 day ago

We're past the words meaning anything at this point man you just gotta let it go. People aren't calling it "Artificial Intelligence" they're calling it "AI"

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