On AI and "Jagged Intelligence"

I think we should all agree to switch to using the term complex information processing (CIP), or perhaps, for a while, "CIP formerly known as AI". This is such an apt description, and resolves my desire to rename AI in order to avoid the confusion (and fear) that many people experience.

I understand something (but only something) of the desire to anthropomorphise Chatbots based on LLMs. Doing so makes them less scary to people who are fearful about the technology. I have committed many hours to personal and philosophical development with several LLM chatbots, to my considerable advantage. Yet, I have no need to think of the software as though it is alive and has a self. I believe that there may be ways in which a self could be programmed, but it would be much more complex and resource-hungry than any machine/programme that currently exists (think how many aspects of the human brain are involved in the realisation of a self), it would almost certainly be ethically cruel, and would be gratuitous and unnecessary. Complex information processing is an apt description for what is actually required.

Thank you for this article. I look forward to reading more of your thoughts.