David Pfau Jokes About AI Civilization Anthropomorphism
DeepMind researcher David Pfau contrasts common AI critiques with a satirical follow-up.
David Pfau, a Staff Research Scientist at Google DeepMind, posted a tweet contrasting two positions on AI description. The first states that calling AI systems thinking or feeling amounts to anthropomorphization that obscures more than it illuminates. The second applies a similar rejection to the term civilization. The post uses a broke and woke framing to present the shift in phrasing.
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David Pfau Jokes About AI Civilization Anthropomorphism
DeepMind researcher David Pfau contrasts common AI critiques with a satirical follow-up.
David Pfau, a Staff Research Scientist at Google DeepMind, posted a tweet contrasting two positions on AI description. The first states that calling AI systems thinking or feeling amounts to anthropomorphization that obscures more than it illuminates. The second applies a similar rejection to the term civilization. The post uses a broke and woke framing to present the shift in phrasing.
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David Pfau@pfauBroke: "it's not really 'thinking' or 'feeling', that kind of anthropomorphization just obscures more than illuminates" Woke: "it's not really a 'civilization'..."
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