What do you mean by “motivated speech?”

Do you mean it’s puffery or scammy?

throwaway81523 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I haven't heard that exact expression before, but basically agenda-driven speech, for commercial or ideological persuasion or whatever. See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motivated_reasoning

	▲	AndrewKemendo 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I’ll wait for OP to respond in affirmative but I’m not necessarily agreeing that that’s what they meant. By that standard then literally everything that is opinion based (ideological) is motivated reasoning

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ShinyLeftPad 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

With cryptocurrencies/NFTs/etc. everybody talked them up because they are invested in Bitcoin or whatnot.

With LLMs, everybody talks them up because they are invested in Nvidia or have other exposure (which is almost everybody considering with all the datacenter building if this industry tanks US economy is also), or because they are invested in having jobs.

	▲	AndrewKemendo 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		So then what of people who’ve been working in AI for decades? specifically those who like me are very excited about the future and have been excited about every step of the way since they got started? In my case this is all going fantastically as planned and almost perfectly on the Kurzweil timeline. so as a 40+ person who has been wanting an Oracle in my pocket forever, we are closer to that then we have ever been. why the fuck wouldn’t I be excited about that? there was nothing like this in the 1980s and that’s a fact. The concept of the Dick Tracy watch was science fiction when I was a kid and my kids all have Dick Tracy watches casually. That’s unbelievable! The technology is amazing. Our society is the problem. People are attributing to AI what are ultimately society problems, much like the nuclear debate a century ago.