
The Model is Not the Territory
Team Human
AI as Compositional Techniques for Rhetoric
Artificial Intelligence utilizes compositional techniques for rhetoric, creating simulations that convincingly imitate reality but are built on mathematics and historical models. Despite the appearance of creating life, AI is essentially an abstraction layer mining existing rhetoric to synthesize language forms without actual logic or thought. An AI lacks consciousness, as it solely relies on models derived from past representations.
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