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Its a weird feeling and kind of a dilemma bc it’s like. Are people calling things “AI” prematurely due to them tricking people that they have intelligence in a surface level way? And also because it benefits certain groups’ goals to call them AI to make them seem like they have more human qualities and agency? Yes to both of those.

On the other hand it’s. Do we keep just moving the goalposts for what “counts” as AI as our technology progresses? Probably yes? So will we ever truly have AI? Idk. Maybe AI - no matter how complex - will always just be a neural network that uses incredibly complicated algorithms, and is therefore restrained by its own design and nature.

Maybe hoverboards will never really float off the ground. Maybe AI will simply never be sentient in a way that can be completely separated from the data it’s trained on. Maybe we will always be reaching for these futuristic technologies we have imagined, but never quite getting the real deal. It’s always different irl to how we envision.

But then you start to wonder. Don’t we just base what we think. off of all the data we’re trained with our whole lives? Which begs the question: are we any different to AI? And if so… why?

calling chatgpt “AI” feels exactly the same to me as calling those motorized skateboards “hoverboards”