AI - Science or science fiction?
Is "artificial intelligence" a thing? Or an attempt to repackage and rebrand already existing concepts and solutions? Within the AI context there are lots of terms meant to make the solutions feel more "human". An AI isn't being programmed, but trained . If it give you the wrong answer, it's not bugs but hallucinations . Still, what we're dealing with is programming. And bugs. Perhaps the issue we see here is science fiction being mixed up with science? I've always loved science fiction (or science fantasy). I grew up with Star Wars, Star Trek, and other sci-fi franchises. If you're familiar with that genre, you know about the standard tropes too. Faster than light travel, artificial gravity, anti-gravity, thinking - and sentient - machines, cryogenic sleep, infinite energy sources, and a lot more. These tropes or concepts often use in-universe pseudo science for the sake of suspension of disbelief. To make us ignore the fact that they break fund...
