AI Doesn't Exist, and Poop Proves It

Maybe we should have called it accumulated intelligence.

There is no artificial intelligence.

Or at least, I don't think the word "artificial" is as clean as we pretend it is.

I know this blog smells funny. Let me decompose it.

What do we even mean when we say something is artificial?

Usually we mean man-made. Something humans made. Something that would not exist without humans, but after humans, it exists because humans made it happen.

That definition is useful. I understand why we use it. Even the original 1955 Dartmouth proposal, the document that helped name the field of "artificial intelligence," used the phrase in a practical way: a machine could be made to simulate parts of learning or intelligence. As a scientific label, the word has a job.

So I am not really arguing with the dictionary.

I know artificial can simply mean human-made. That is not the part...

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