Could you define (or link) to what "Weizenbaum feed" means/references? Too obscure for me but I'm interested. Thanks.

Likely a reference to ELIZA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA

Are there really people that can't tell the difference between ELIZA and something that can solve open Millennium Prize Problems in math?

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esikich a minute ago | parent | next [-]

Yes, AI threatens the folks who think that knowing how to write JavaScript or C makes them smart and being smart is their entire identity.

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jsrozner 14 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It turns out, oddly enough, that it's possible for it to be both. AI can simultaneously be used to destroy the commons with slop and also make contributions to new math (though isn't the jury still out on whether part of the idea was stolen from human mathematicians?)

	▲	handoflixue 12 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		What does "destroy the commons with slop" have to do with ELIZA comparisons?

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joquarky an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Their ego doesn't let them see the difference.

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mapontosevenths 21 minutes ago | parent [-]

Or perhaps their wallets. There are a lot of programmers here. Some of them think that AI is the death of their profession, rather than a change in it.

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." - Upton Sinclair

	▲	jsrozner 14 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I, uhm, think this idea would apply in both directions.