[shimonabi]

I've also heard Cory Doctorow recently offer a similarly dismissive view, describing AI as "just statistics".

[palmotea]

> I've also heard Cory Doctorow recently offer a similarly dismissive view, describing AI as "just statistics".

Well, AI partisans have applied grandiose terms like "thinking," "intelligence," and "soul" to these machines. It's not wrong to push back and remind people what they really are.

[keeda]

Well, if you look into the current scientific consensus on human cognition, our intelligence is also "just statistics."

So I guess we all agree, except that some people think "just statistics" is derogatory phrasing!