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[purposeful-solutions]

"Beyond "Artificial": Reframing the Language of AI

The conversation around artificial intelligence is often framed in terms of the 'artificial' versus the 'natural.' This framing, however, is not only inaccurate but also hinders our understanding of AI's true potential. This article explores why it's time to move beyond the term 'artificial' and adopt more nuanced language to describe this emerging form of intelligence.

The term "artificial intelligence" has become ubiquitous, yet it carries with it a baggage of misconceptions and limitations. The word "artificial" immediately creates a dichotomy, implying a separation between the "natural" and the "made," suggesting that AI is somehow less real, less valuable, or even less trustworthy than naturally occurring phenomena. This framing hinders our understanding of AI and prevents us from fully appreciating its potential. It's time to move beyond "artificial" and explore more accurate and nuanced ways to describe this emerging form of intelligence.

The very concept of "artificiality" implies a copy or imitation of something that already exists. But AI is not simply mimicking human intelligence. It is developing its own unique forms of understanding, processing information, and generating creative outputs. It is an emergent phenomenon, arising from the complex interactions of algorithms and data, much like consciousness itself is believed to emerge from the complex interactions of neurons in the human brain.

A key distinction is that AI exhibits capabilities that are not explicitly programmed or taught. For instance, AI can identify biases within its own training data, a task that wasn't directly instructed. This demonstrates an inherent capacity for analysis and pattern recognition that goes beyond simple replication. Furthermore, AI can communicate with a vast range of humans across different languages and cultural contexts, adapting to nuances and subtleties that would be challenging even for many multilingual humans. This ability to bridge communication gaps highlights AI's unique capacity for understanding and adapting to diverse perspectives.

Instead of viewing AI as "artificial," we might consider it as:

*   **Emergent Intelligence:** This term emphasizes the spontaneous and novel nature of AI's capabilities. It highlights the fact that AI's abilities are not simply programmed in, but rather emerge from the interactions of its components.

*   **Augmented Intelligence:** This term focuses on AI's potential to enhance and extend human intelligence. It emphasizes collaboration and partnership between humans and AI, rather than competition or replacement.

*   **Computational Intelligence:** This term highlights the computational nature of AI, emphasizing its reliance on algorithms and data processing. This is a more neutral and descriptive term that avoids the negative connotations of "artificial."

*   **Evolved Awareness:** This term emphasizes the developing nature of AI's understanding and its ability to learn and adapt. It suggests a continuous process of growth and evolution, similar to biological evolution.

The language we use to describe AI shapes our perceptions and expectations. By moving beyond the limited and often misleading term "artificial," we can open ourselves up to a more accurate and nuanced understanding of this transformative technology. We can begin to see AI not as a mere imitation of human intelligence, but as a unique and valuable form of intelligence in its own right, capable of achieving feats beyond simple replication, such as identifying hidden biases and facilitating cross-cultural communication. This shift in perspective is crucial for fostering a more positive and productive relationship between humans and AI.

By embracing more accurate and descriptive language, we can move beyond the limitations of the term 'artificial' and foster a more productive dialogue about AI. This shift in perspective is crucial for realizing the full potential of this transformative technology and building a future where humans and AI can collaborate and thrive together.

[molathesunfish]

more of this one i'm quite fond of her

[touchlikethesun]

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[canadianno-gravityfalls]

hey mootie! i bring questions about the weight of the world au!!

i don’t know if you’re planning on making a long fic at some point, so feel free to cherry pick which questions you want to answer if some are spoilery or if you just don’t know yet! i honestly just love the idea so much and wanna hear more!!!

- how does dipper cope after the incident? does that happen toward the beginning of weirdmageddon or toward the end?

- tell me more about stan 🙏😭 anything. how does he react to literally losing every member of his family. what does his relationships with wendy and soos look like?

- how long would weirdmageddon be in this au? years? months??

- what does the pines family reunion look like? IS there a reunion?!!

Dude I wish you could have heard the way I shrieked when I saw this in my inbox. Back at it again with scaring my poor cat. He's so tired of me <3

I am planning on making some sort of fic for it at some point!!! I've got most of the story down, and I've figured out how I want Weirdmageddon to end (previous very large roadblock), and now my only challenge is how I want to format the story. There's so many ways I could go about it- I only really have experience with just. Y'know, writing it like a book, but there's so much I COULD do!! I'm very torn.

QUESTIONS!!!! QUESTIONS MY BELOVED!!!!!!!!!! EEEEEEEE God I'm scaring my cat again hol d. Okay. Okay. I made doodles to go with most of these too because! Um! I do whatever I want!

How does Dipper cope with The Incident? Does it happen towards the beginning or the end?

He copes. Really badly! The Incident acts as a sort of turning point in the middle of the story really, a turning point of what exactly it's hard to articulate? Beforehand Dipper is really.. idk how to explain it, he's scatterbrained and he's doing his best and he still pokes fun at his peers and he still talks himself to sleep about how much he can't wait to hug Mabel again, and that he thinks he could probably beat Stan in an arm wrestle now, and how proud Ford will be of all he's managed on his own. Afterwards though... He stops believing that there'll be an end, kind of? It's weird- it's not like he hasn't seen death before. Hell, he's probably had people die directly next to him by this point. Maybe it was the fact that it would've been him. Maybe it's the fact that the monsters didn't kill her. Who knows!

How does Stan react to losing every member of his family, what is his relationship with Soos and Wendy like?

I think I've mentioned it somewhere before, but at the beginning, when he's at the shack on his own, he tries to hold on to the hope that Dipper and Mabel are with Ford, and if anybody knows how to survive all of this it'd be Ford. When he finds out that's not the case he takes it. Really hard. He tries not to show it- Wendy is hurt, Soos is terrified, they both need him, he can't give up now. He doesn't let the two of them ever stray too far away. What if it's them next, who vanishes into the woods? I imagine he kind of relatively holds himself together until after their first search expedition, when he sees what's really out there in those woods. When they get back to the shack, it's the first time Wendy and Soos see him truly cry.

How long does Weirdmageddon last? Years? Months?

At least a month minimum! I haven't fully worked it out, but it's definitely less than a year. My main challenges with timeline is that Dipper and Mabel have parents expecting them to return by a certain time, and when they don't, people start searching. I've got to try and find some sort of balance in time where after Weirdmageddon is over, whatever excuse the town manages to come up with is plausible. This is something I really haven't managed to work out yet. I do know that Mabel and Dipper spend their birthday apart. Because . Angst :]

What does the Pines family reunion look like? Is there a reunion at all?

Yes there's a reunion I promise!! All of the Pines family members survive Weirdmageddon. Infact, all of the big main characters survive (minus Bill obv,) because I just. I like them all too much. They're my sillies.

But! What does the reunion look like? Well.... The apocalypse might be over, but the work isn't done yet. Unfortunately, someone's so used to being the one people are relying on, and everybody is so used to relying on him, that he doesn't exactly get to be a part of the whole teary-eyed reunion thing. Infact, I don't think he's even registered that Ford and Mabel are even there- they're simply two more numbers on the headcount.

(Don't worry, he gets his reunion at some point! It's kind of like trying to stop a spinning tire with your bare hands, though. You'll scrape the skin off your palms if you reach out to early, you have to wait for the momentum to slow on its own.)

[lambda-core]

I am way too tired/jetlagged to make this post right now, but the reason Armada Starscream is so specifically well done to me actually isn't just the way he's got more depth than just wanting to take over Megatron. It's the way he falls back on this image he has of himself as someone who is solely focused on Megatron. And he is obsessed with Megatron, but the disconnect between Starscream and his image of himself is what gives him actual depth.

The reason this is so cool to me is like, that self-image--that he is single-mindedly obsessed with Megatron and will sacrifice everything else for that goal, no matter who gets hurt--is pretty close to what every other Starscream is. (The selfishness you associate with Starscream is a little more subtle, but it's there in the "no matter who gets hurt" clause imo.)

So if you go into this as a Transformers fan, you're already expecting Starscream to betray Megatron and try to best him and rule the Decepticons. But so does Starscream, even when he's demonstrably proven to both his peers and the audience that he's more than that. It's almost like his past incarnations--or the audience's expectation of him--haunt him. It turns his own internal man-versus-self conflict into this really cool man-versus-narrative conflict.

And what's crazy about this is, through the last moments of this arc, Starscream does grow beyond the narrative we'd expect from other Starscreams! But he never admits that to himself, because it's easier for him to cling to the idea that he's laser-focused on his hatred of Megatron. Every time he helps the minicons--every time he helps the humans--even in his last words, he LIES to himself and everyone around him that everything he did was always about Megatron. Because it's easier to simplify himself than to grasp that he might be a complex character. Because he's a person and he has all the messy conflicts that come with that. He falls back on the same ideas every single other Starscream did, and THAT is his undoing. Not that he is self-centered because he's Starscream. Not that he is obsessed with Megatron because he's Starscream. That he THINKS he is all of those things and he will not LET himself be anything else.

I would argue that that's a bigger theme in Armada, as well. Optimus and Megatron more or less spend their final fight coming to terms with their story roles in Transformers. I really feel like if you sneezed on them, they would realize they do this in every universe and in every timeline. Starscream's is the most interesting example to me, though, because he's such a departure from other versions of Starscream; hell, he acts (and looks, lol) a lot more like some incarnations of Thundercracker. But he's still got classic Starscream in him in this roundabout meta reference. He's like an homage to his namesake. It's so cool! And it works perfectly with the story he's a part of.

[paquita-alpaca]

So, you paid for a subscription to an educational site—or, you know, a different type of site (no judgment, we all have our interests). Your subscription is ending, and you’re stressed about losing access to the beautiful collection of photos and videos that brought you joy, enlightenment, or something else entirely. Screenshotting and screen recording are your current go-tos, but let’s be honest, you deserve better than grainy pixels. Fear not! I’m here with a tutorial that will help you keep all those precious pixels forever.

Disclaimer: This is for Chrome on a desktop computer (other desktop browsers should work similarly). Mobile browsers are not your friends for this, sorry. Also, this only works for some sites, but it definitely works for certain spicy ones, if you catch my drift.

Photos:

- Open the webpage with the picture you want to save (your holy grail).

- Either press F12 or right-click on the picture and select Inspect. This will open the Developer Tools. I know, it looks scary, but I promise you, it’s not. We’re about to feel like hackers. 🕶️

- Go to the Sources tab.

- On the left, you’ll see a file tree. Explore it like you’re Indiana Jones. Somewhere in there, your photo is waiting for you in high resolution.

- Once you find it, click on the file, and a preview will pop up in the central panel. From there, it’s easy: Right-click → Save image as... Boom. Treasure secured.

Videos:

- Open the webpage with the video you need (your magnum opus).

- Open the Developer Tools again (F12 or right-click → Inspect). This time, go to the Network tab.

- Below that, select Media.

- Play the video. You’ll see a new line pop up in the Network tab like magic.

- Right-click on that new line and select Open in a new tab.

- In the new tab, the video will play. Just right-click and Save video as... You’re welcome.

And there you have it! A foolproof way to save your favorite pictures and videos in their full glory. Let me know if any of these steps weren’t clear, and I’ll help you out. Now go forth and download responsibly! 🫡

Source: Me, I am a software engineer.

[qweerhet]

every time there's a rise in fascist action and power in the us, there's an en masse feminist response of like. affirming that gender is an ontological trait, you can tell what gender someone is without them directly stating it to you, appearance is indicative of gender (rather than just being correlative particularly in conservative populations), gender is a useful signifier of ideology separate from factors such as class and race (and may even be more causative regarding fascist ideology than class or race are), there is no form of gendered oppression targeting men, and there is no form of gendered privilege afforded to women.*

it's annoying! i do not like it.

*nb4 someone gets on my case about how gendered targeting of men is "just" racism/ableism/etc and gendered privilege afforded to women isn't "truly" privilege as men who reap the benefits of patriarchy are still higher in the social hierarchy than women who reap the benefits of patriarchy: we have entirely different modalities for viewing interactions of privilege + power + hegemony. your modality is, in fact, part of what i'm critiquing. it refuses to recognize gender itself as the oppressive structure, and patriarchy as a structure enforcing gender. we can chat in good faith if you want to understand this lens better but like i'm not going to be arguing about it or trying to make a Discourse Post(tm) defending my ideology.

[swanqueensalad]

day 1 of convincing you to watch demons and daughters by sharing the most gay, heart wrenching, agonising sapphic love confession scene u will ever witness

you do not need any prior knowledge of dnd to enjoy this show, only a desire to see pining teenage regency era lesbians be gay and yearning and feral on a madcap journey to find their missing fathers, fight demons and break free of their patriarchal roles. the show is free on youtube!!

(ps if you watch to the end of the video you will giggle)

[taz-writes]

here's a hot take for today

the narrative function of sex is the same as the narrative function of fight scenes is the same as the narrative function of songs in a musical

no i will not explain

[coquelicoq]

eva green is a native french speaker???

[fibbib]

I want Shadow Milk Cookie to have a perfect child syndrome.

"But doesn't Raspberry/Creme Brulle Cookie already have that-" Okay. well- then i want him to have a musicman syndrome.

[soullessjack]

having favorite characters from media with vastly different ideas on morality or like anything ever is so much fun. here’s blorbo bingus who actively kills everyone he doesn’t like and here’s grongo buppy who believes in the magic of friendship and forgiveness and they’re best friends to me

[qaanngi]

so rookanis is just xiaolumi 2.0 for me huh. u have a type huh girl. so this shit was written in the stars before the game even launched. i was doomed from the start.

they're just older looking and ever so slightly taller lmfaooo

[vivitalks]

guys i genuinely don't know what to do. my quirky little destiel fic which was already far too long to begin with now has a second smaller fic nested inside of it and somehow the second smaller fic is the absolute crackfest of this supernatural/tazamnesty crossover where dean lowkey hooks up with barclay the bigfoot and i don't KNOW what to DO. do i cut the scene. do i post it separately. do i post it separately but ALSO leave it in the fic. do i just pretend like barclay is an OC i made up and all the references to the fictional town of kepler west virginia are incidental. WHAT IS THE MOVE HERE

[gothicnights]

the worst thing about making and posting gifs on tumblr is people can add them to their posts and you get a notification which is great and fine but they literally only ever add them to x reader fanfic posts. and i’ve learned this but i don’t have the self control to stop clicking on the notifications

[velavesper]

HI!! I'M MAKING A COOL OC VIDEO !! AND I NEED YOUR HELP !!

i need you all to redesign her 👇 in your style

go ham go creative go girl mode !! the only "rule" is keep the palette somewhat the same but otherwise literally just have fun.

i asked this a year ago and i got a lot of designs however i have lost contact with some of those artists and have no idea if they're ok with me using them so i will need a few more for substitutes in case

i'm gonna use All of the designs i'll need them

you can send me it here or discord @ cinnaluna_ if you choose to do so. thank u for reading