A neo-Stalinist hatchet job

 Every time APster, transhumanism and cryptoanarchist issues are raised. But enough about Arseholes News.

" . . . discussing the origins of AI in the 1956 Dartmouth College workshop on “thinking machines” led by Marvin Minsky and John McCarthy, who coined the term “Artificial Intelligence.” They situate this development in the context of the U.S. military competition with the USSR and the view that the human mind, too, is a machine. The authors cite the work of MIT professor Joseph Weizenbaum, who invented the first chatbot, named ELIZA in the late 1960s, and became a critic of AI; he developed his critique in a 1976 book entitled Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgment to Calculation.

After briefly discussing the 1940s’ origins of Large Language Models (LLMs) and word-sequencing with machine-learning algorithms, they demonstrate that ChatGPT (2022) is a “synthetic text extruding machine” generating language, “but without any intent or thinking mind behind it” (p. 31). Bender and Hanna do not discuss John Searle’s “Chinese Room Argument,” which had offered a serious challenge to Alan Turing’s argument that computers could imitate the human mind. However, their description of AI as a synthetic text extruding machine sheds light on Searle’s argument by showing that large “language models only manipulate the form of language, with neither understanding nor communicative intent” (p. 32). Chatbots only “link together word patterns” through the use of “probabilistic algorithms” trained by other people’s stolen works. ChatGPT as a “text synthesis machine” and its “learning by rote” are contrasted by the authors to the act of human writing, which involves critical thinking and requires communication, conversation, and in-person and written dialogues with other people, as well as with writers and experts in the case of scientific and academic writing (p. 50).

Furthermore, the authors emphasize that although it appears that AI is doing all the work, AI requires a great deal of hidden human labor usually by low-paid workers in the Global South who train AI and monitor it. Two examples are remote human workers monitoring self-driving cars and content moderators monitoring LLMs. . . . "

The best revenge is treating morons as damage and routing around them while living well. 

Sweet as honey.