2026-09-18 12:39 UTC
"Since the 1950s, researchers have applied the "AI" label to an incoherent grab-bag of technologies that share one characteristic: each one is designed to perform tasks that are considered to be the province of conscious minds. Each one of these "AI" technologies has failed in important ways, but the one way in which every single one of them has succeeded is in refining our own understanding of which things are truly and solely the product of conscious intervention."
Original Mastodon toot - https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/117290940594281924
His blog post - https://pluralistic.net/2026/09/18/surprise/
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@flyingpenguin@infosec.exchange 2026-09-18 14:46
@fabiocosta0305@ursal.zone @pluralistic@mamot.fr Doctorow is such an odd duck. He dates AI to the 1950s, then restates Shannon on the predictability of text and Gödel on incompleteness with no name attached to either. He licenses the post on one condition: attribute it to him and link back. The people whose ideas he restates are what, chopped liver? He spent years arguing copyright is the wrong tool against AI training, and then his license waives everything that a copyright could ask for except the attribution. It is the one thing he kept for himself, and the one thing he left out for everyone else. Doesn't sound fair.