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Pope Francis has died

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jimmcslim ◴[] 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 ◴[] 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 ◴[] 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 ◴[] No.43752007[source]
We do!

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

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diggan ◴[] 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] ◴[] No.43753488[source]
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gopher_space ◴[] 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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moralestapia ◴[] 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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1. lanstin ◴[] 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.