https://stephenfry.substack.com/p/ai-a-means-to-an-end-or-a-means-to
A transcript of a very good speech that Stephen Fry gave recently. It’s about AI (or Ai as he prefers to call it …) and the very serious problem of understanding the future we face in its presence.
He reminds us that a car is not a horse, that a plane is not a bird, that technology does not imitate. By the same reasoning, AI is neither a brain nor is it intelligent. AI does not imitate.
Let’s get over it.
The next time I read that AI endows computers with the ability to do things that an intelligent human can do I will rip up the book, article or delete the podcast.
A car is not a horse and does not do horse things. AI is not intelligent and does not do intelligent things.