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Verge essay language versus intelligence AI

Is language the same as intelligence? The AI industry desperately needs it to be

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nilay patel CJ Benjamin Riley

“Went searching for our piece on this and well (That piece: www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...)”

“Dr. Gopnik can certainly speak for herself, but it is indeed #3 that led me to chime in here, social media providing a forum for debate and all. And, well, once again I can only recur to the established scientific fact that language is not the same as thoug…”

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Ian Bogost: I continue to be startled by the "writing is thinking" thing ("popular" among the anti-AI set). Is it, perhaps, a weird perversion of all the Derrida people read for decades? The pure-presence erro…
Ian Bogost: Writing isn't thinking, but rather writing. It's a type of representation that renders ideas into inscription. As a supposed writer, I am HORRIFIED at the idea that I would need to write to think. …
Robin Z: I'm surprised to hear this! My version of writing-is-thinking comes via Merleau-Ponty, but the idea that you compose the thoughts in advance mentally and just print them out in text strikes me as e…
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