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I can personally see a difference in the definition of ‘intelligence’ on HN to when I speak to people I socially interact with day to day. On HN intelligence i
by Closi 4y ago
I can personally see a difference in the definition of ‘intelligence’ on HN to when I speak to people I socially interact with day to day.
On HN intelligence is often seemed to be defined as more about new and novel thought / invention - it’s only intelligence if it thinks a thought that has never been thought/written before.
Off HN ‘intelligence’ seems to be closer defined to “is it smart enough to replace my job as a knowledge worker”. Pharmacists would say it has intelligence if it could automatically check prescriptions, and data analysts would say it has intelligence if it can answer a data request without their intervention.
IMO most people seem to define intelligence as whatever the part of their job is that currently requires analytical skill, because people are worried about the impact this could have on the middle and entry tier of knowledge work, rather than defining AI as needing to invent something fundamentally new.
- Jensson 4y agoThey have API glue jobs, they take a request and then manually maps it to an API. It is basically the mental version of factory work, it is obvious that most of those jobs would disappear the instant we had good NLP. Human calculator jobs disappeared when we got artificial calculators, now human language processors will disappear since we have artificial language processors.