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Pope Francis has died

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916 points phillipharris | 3 comments | 21 Apr 25 08:00 UTC | HN request time: 0.445s | source
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jimmcslim ◴[21 Apr 25 11:47 UTC] No.43750835[source]▶
The Vatican published an interesting document on AI [1], which attributes a number of quotes to Pope Francis:

* As Pope Francis noted, the machine “makes a technical choice among several possibilities based either on well-defined criteria or on statistical inferences. Human beings, however, not only choose, but in their hearts are capable of deciding."

* In light of this, the use of AI, as Pope Francis said, must be “accompanied by an ethic inspired by a vision of the common good, an ethic of freedom, responsibility, and fraternity, capable of fostering the full development of people in relation to others and to the whole of creation.”

* As Pope Francis observes, “in this age of artificial intelligence, we cannot forget that poetry and love are necessary to save our humanity.”

* As Pope Francis observes, “the very use of the word ‘intelligence’” in connection with AI “can prove misleading”

[1] https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/docu...

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timeon ◴[21 Apr 25 13:27 UTC] No.43751790[source]▶
> * As Pope Francis observes, “the very use of the word ‘intelligence’” in connection with AI “can prove misleading”

Yes, LLMs are more about knowledge than intelligence. AK rather than AI.

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diggan ◴[21 Apr 25 13:35 UTC] No.43751865[source]▶
Illustrating perfectly how wide this conversation really is, as we don't even have consensus about what "knowledge" means :)
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moralestapia ◴[21 Apr 25 13:50 UTC] No.43752007[source]▶
We do!

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/knowledg...

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diggan ◴[21 Apr 25 13:56 UTC] No.43752074[source]▶
The Cambridge Dictionary has its own internal consensus, true, but there are so many more ways people understand that specific word :)

Wikipedia even has it's own page with some of the various definitions people use: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definitions_of_knowledge

Then we have implicit/explicit knowledge (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Implicit_and_explicit_knowledg...) where some people assume one of them when they say "knowledge", others refer to the other.

In fact, there is an entire scientific field to understanding what "knowledge" actually is/means: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistemology

So yeah, it isn't as simple as looking it up in a dictionary, unfortunately.

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moralestapia[dead post] ◴[21 Apr 25 16:03 UTC] No.43753488[source]▶
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gopher_space ◴[21 Apr 25 17:41 UTC] No.43754470[source]▶
> If 99% of people in the street can agree on the meaning of a word without much ambiguity then that's a good starting point

This turns out to never be true once you get into actual details. Try to buy blue house paint for a basic example.

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1. moralestapia ◴[21 Apr 25 18:05 UTC] No.43754702[source]▶
I do not understand your comment as buying blue paint is an extremely trivial thing to do unless you're in the middle of the Sahara desert.
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2. Fargren ◴[21 Apr 25 18:56 UTC] No.43755230[source]▶
I think they mean there many hues that some people will cal blue and other will disagree. And definitely if you try to buy paint and just say you want "blue" there's a huge spectrum of things you might get

This website was doing the rounds not long ago: https://ismy.blue/

3. lanstin ◴[21 Apr 25 19:32 UTC] No.43755566[source]▶
Which blue paint? If you are buying by yourself, it might be simple, if you are a decisive sort, but there's more blues than I at least expected.