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Arnold Kling's avatar

I wish people would not call it an AI. It is a software tool. The best analogy might be with a web browser. You should learn to use it. https://arnoldkling.substack.com/p/can-we-stop-anthropomorphizing-chatgpt I would not judge it based on first impressions or other people's first impressions.

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Rafael Kaufmann's avatar

Hey Robert, great piece. IMO what you're talking about here is collective sensemaking -- incrementally overcoming bias and subjectivity to find explicit shared mental models that reflect universal, objective truths. There's a small but growing contingent of people working on AI-augmented collective intelligence -- using machine learning and other methods to accelerate, integrate and debias this process. The AI models that enable this process are the stepping stones to your "mechanical Mr. Spock": partial and probabilistic, but justifiable and self-improving. My company is building open-source infrastructure for this kind of collective process, called dTwins (short for decentralized digital twins). There's a whitepaper at https://bit.ly/dtwins-wp, you might even find a familiar quote there :)

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