Readit NewsEnglish decending from french you say! The nerve! (I assure you, my 6th grade english teacher would correct you thusly)
Consciousness or self awareness is of course a different question, and ones whose answer seems less clear right now.
Knee jerk dismissing the evidence in front of your eyes because you find it unbelievable that we can achieve true reasoning via scaled matrix multiplication is understandable, but also betrays a lack of imagination and flexibility of thought. The world is full of bizarre wonders and this is just one more to add to the list.
Oh and deal with dates before 1900.
Excel is a gift from God if you stay in its lane. If you ever so slightly deviate, not even the Devil can help you.
But maybe, juuuuust maybe, AI can?
But maybe, juuuuust maybe, AI can?"
Bold assumption that the devil and AI aren't aligned ;)
For the inevitable downvoters - explain your support of lies instead of downvoting.
In certain contexts, harmful lies can be fraud, defamation, or perjury. It's reasonable for a social media company to have a policy that harmful lies are bad for their site, while still otherwise supporting free speech.
Trump claiming the election was stolen, vaccine disinfo - these are lies, and they're very destructive.
Meanwhile, the takedowns that are happening today are people being punished for stating the truth.
I'm sort of grossed out by people trying to blame a party for this in general, though. It's weird.
They built canals for farming and understood how to use wild plants. Other cultures ( Akimel Oʼodham for one) are also interesting to read about how they lived.
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It does get very complicated when you consider they're probably under a lot of "carrot AND stick" from the cartels... but the damage they do is real.