Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her) on Nostr: 2. The octopus is posited to be hyperintelligent precisely because we wanted to show ...
2. The octopus is posited to be hyperintelligent precisely because we wanted to show that no entity could learn to "understand" language based on form alone; it's doesn't matter what's inside the box.
So it's extra grating to read that we "likened AI to “a hyper-intelligent deep-sea octopus.”
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