Is Your Duck Type It Quacks Like a Duck?

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A Google researcher believes the a i he's working on is conscious. Eveen: The universal answer from artificial intelligence experts and philosophers was, no. No one thought it was sentient. But if it gets at this n his challenge read analogies of like well, sentience is your duck type it get over it quacks like a duck and walks like a duck at is a duck? I just call it weak analogy. Making t is actually trying to simplify complex topics in a way that doesn't actually give you good affordances on what is actually happening in that complexity.

"The world is incredibly complicated, and humans necessarily use heuristics and analogies to process that complexity into simpler forms. These mental shortcuts are never perfect, but they should broadly summarize the complexity they represent while affording their user a sense of their limitations.

In that vein, I want to call attention to two lazy tech analogies that I’ve seen lately as examples of the kind of impoverished analogical thinking that the industry needs to actively avoid." - Danny Crichton

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