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  • From biology. Or psychology. Or neurology. Or philosophy, even.

    It's pretty clear from their writing that the original AI researchers thought they were on the path to the "intelligence" talked of in these other disciplines and that it only became the very narrowly-defined field mentioned above years after their abject failure at actually capturing what anybody else would call intelligence.

    And now the term "artificial intelligence" is essentially just a marketing term, with as much meaning as any other random pair of words used for marketing purposes.

  • Ah. So your argument is "we have defined 'intelligence' in a way that is literally not accepted by anybody but us, therefore we have made an artificial version of it".

    Anselm's ontological proof of the existence of AI.

    Bravo.

    You've managed to recreate one of the most famous 11th century tautologies.

  • We can't even agree on a definition for "intelligence" so it's pretty obvious we haven't got an artificial version of it yet.

    Can't make what you can't even define, after all. "Artificial intelligence" is about as meaningful a term as "artificial geflugelschnitz".

  • Well you have to be careful there. We can't be putting modern western thoughts and modern western vocabulary into the mouths of people in Qing Dynasty China. But that little warning aside, yes. She fought back against a very patriarchal society and lived life (mostly) on her own terms successfully. She was a bit less successful in pushing back against queer oppression (in that no movement formed around her) but she definitively pushed back against people minding her business for her.

    And despite pushing back against deeply-held cultural values, her art, even the explicitly sapphic stuff, was well-regarded in her own lifetime which is a miracle for Qing-era women even when not pushing back against society.

  • I don't mind strong cheeses.

    …Limburger and Handkäse have entered the chat…

    I just don't like the "funk" of blue cheeses. There's something about that scent that's off-putting to me. (Which is weird because I love durian and "stinky tofu" which are often compared to blue cheeses.)

  • When I was in Canada that was my chosen medium. I didn't even bother with anything past "basic cable" on the television. If it was worth watching, it was worth putting on DVD and I had HUNDREDS.

    Not really an option here, so it's the pirate's life for me!

  • Does knife-fighting and jiu-jitsu count as "contact sports"? 'Cause that's what my dad taught me from my youth. 🤣

    (Dad was not your normal father.)

    But yes, it's hard to find an assertive role model in life, which is why early in my career it was easy to walk all over me. All culture (pop or otherwise) around you insists you should be meek, forbearing, tolerant, and nurturing and that any woman who doesn't fall into this model is a "pushy broad" or "bitch" or whatnot. It's very hard to find any strong feminine role models that aren't just "men with tits" on one end of the scale or "bitches who deserve a comeuppance" on the other.

  • My dad brought me up to not put up with bullshit, so I had some bolstering in my upbringing. But even with that when I started working life I found it really hard to assert myself.

    Now?

    I'm what my father brought me up to be: self-confident and assertive. And if someone pushes back at "the bitch" they'll find out what me being bitchy REALLY looks like.