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Software that finishes your sentences, then your job postings, then maybe your argument.
means Computer systems designed to perform tasks that normally require human thinking, like recognizing patterns, making decisions, or using language.
from Coined in 1955 by John McCarthy and colleagues proposing the Dartmouth Summer Research Project, where the term was used in a grant application to describe machines that could simulate aspects of human intelligence. The name stuck partly because it sounded respectable enough to get funding, launching a field that has spent seven decades oscillating between 'thinking machines are imminent' and 'AI winter is coming.'
- origin term
- coined 1956 at a Dartmouth summer workshop
- it forgets
- has no memory unless you paste it back
- confidence bug
- states wrong answers as calmly as right ones
- not sentient
- predicts next word, doesn't know it's talking