We are in strange times when the Pope makes more sense about technology than Richard Dawkins. From Pope Leo’s encyclical, as quoted by Kottke:
It is not possible to provide a single, comprehensive definition of AI. What can be stated, however, is that we must avoid the misconception of equating this type of “intelligence” with that of human beings. These systems merely imitate certain functions of human intelligence.
While Dawkins seems to have fallen completely into a vat of kool-aid:
devilgate.orgI gave Claude the text of a novel I am writing. He took a few seconds to read it and then showed, in subsequent...
