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What do you mean by "anthropomorphizing"? Claiming something that AI does is intuition? Intuition is literally black box of neural nets that people later use r

What do you mean by "anthropomorphizing"? Claiming something that AI does is intuition? Intuition is literally black box of neural nets that people later use reasoning to justify. Intuition is trained for people based on past experience and thousands of reward signals. It's quick, but you won't be able to immediately articulate why intuition reached a conclusion. I'm wondering why should intelligent behavior that for example intuition produces be restricted to human usage only? I do not think it's anthropomorphizing at all.

CharlesW 3y ago
> What do you mean by "anthropomorphizing"? "Anthropomorphizing is the act of attributing human traits, feelings, or behaviors to non-human things, such as animals, objects, or phenomena. It can happen consciously or unconsciously, and is a common way that people perceive the world. For example, children often anthropomorphize to help them make sense of their environment."
- mewpmewp2 3y ago
  But intuition is something that animals also have. What specifically was human specific there?
  - maxbond 3y ago
    I would go further and say I believe animals have emotions, thoughts, and personalities too, but I would still say it was anthropomorphizing to suggest a computer did (indeed, it would be anthropomorphizing to say animals have intuitions, thoughts, and emotions, it's just a less controversial leap). I'd be open to revisiting my view of computers if they bit me when I came back from vacation.
    - mewpmewp2 3y ago
      I think intuition is just fundamentally fast labelling of things based on past experience. Emotions are more of a construct, that seems life specific, although AI could have it, I'm not seeing an obvious case for current AI to have it. While I see intuition in current AI. Again, intuition is just a neural net to me, while emotions are some more complex reward and motivation system that I'm not too certain about. I think emotions are largely developed to perform in social contexts. E.g. they are diplomatic constructs to assert oneself and communicate with each other so of course AI just out of the blue wouldn't need it. E.g. you get angry, to show that you are asserting yourself and so others wouldn't use you for their gain etc. Because it would be too costly to engage with an angry person so everyone negotiates their emotions with each other so things would seem fair and just. Thoughts could very well be just next token predictors though. At least my thoughts could be.

CharlesW 3y ago

> What do you mean by "anthropomorphizing"? "Anthropomorphizing is the act of attributing human traits, feelings, or behaviors to non-human things, such as animals, objects, or phenomena. It can happen consciously or unconsciously, and is a common way that people perceive the world. For example, children often anthropomorphize to help them make sense of their environment."

mewpmewp2 3y ago
But intuition is something that animals also have. What specifically was human specific there?
- maxbond 3y ago
  I would go further and say I believe animals have emotions, thoughts, and personalities too, but I would still say it was anthropomorphizing to suggest a computer did (indeed, it would be anthropomorphizing to say animals have intuitions, thoughts, and emotions, it's just a less controversial leap). I'd be open to revisiting my view of computers if they bit me when I came back from vacation.
  - mewpmewp2 3y ago
    I think intuition is just fundamentally fast labelling of things based on past experience. Emotions are more of a construct, that seems life specific, although AI could have it, I'm not seeing an obvious case for current AI to have it. While I see intuition in current AI. Again, intuition is just a neural net to me, while emotions are some more complex reward and motivation system that I'm not too certain about. I think emotions are largely developed to perform in social contexts. E.g. they are diplomatic constructs to assert oneself and communicate with each other so of course AI just out of the blue wouldn't need it. E.g. you get angry, to show that you are asserting yourself and so others wouldn't use you for their gain etc. Because it would be too costly to engage with an angry person so everyone negotiates their emotions with each other so things would seem fair and just. Thoughts could very well be just next token predictors though. At least my thoughts could be.