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You're stuck on a problem. You grab a random comic book from the shelf and something that is written in the comic book sparks your solution in your head. How
by jrm4 2y ago
You're stuck on a problem. You grab a random comic book from the shelf and something that is written in the comic book sparks your solution in your head.
How intelligent is the comic book? Is it hallucinating or being correct or what?
The answer is none of those things, right? YOU did the thinking. Not the inanimate object; what it did was a happy coincidence.
- BeetleB 2y agoPointless discussion on semantics. If a random page in a random comic book gives me the answer I seek 30% of the time, it's incredibly useful. Little effort was spent in seeking the answer, and the 70% of the time it is wrong led to little waste in time. Now if you put a mechanical arm interface in the middle where I give my query to a machine, and it randomly picks the comic book and page, which answers my question 30% of the time - I have no trouble calling it "intelligent". Contrast it with Google searches that don't give me the answer I seek, but use up an order of magnitude more of my time.