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Note on the Relationship Between Artificial Intelligence and Human Intelligence www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_ddf_doc_20250128_antiqua-et-nova_en.html

728 sats \ 2 comments \ @elvismercury 9h mostly_harmless

The Vatican weighing in on the nature of intelligence.

It is within this perspective that the present Note addresses the anthropological and ethical challenges raised by AI—issues that are particularly significant, as one of the goals of this technology is to imitate the human intelligence that designed it. [...] This new situation has prompted many people to reflect on what it means to be human and the role of humanity in the world.

I've often found these official pronouncements to be really thought-provoking, similar to how Supreme Court rulings are. Both orient you to a wider way of seeing something, and make it hard (if you approach them with good intent) to straw-man the "opposing" side.

Of course, if you insist on making a caricature of people's opinions, you can accomplish it. But it gets harder, with perspective.

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27 sats \ 0 replies \ @0xIlmari 7h

It's all well and good. The Church must take a position on such issues eventually, like it had to with IVF and will have to with extraterrestrial life. (If it still exists by that time.)

But to me personally, it strikes as perhaps too soon. At least I hope it avoids passing judgment for now. (I didn't read it in whole yet.)

This is because I see the current generation of "AI" as having peaked (there's only cost optimization and minification to do) and it's still nothing really resembling what I consider "intelligence".

Indeed, like the document mentions, the Turing Test does not capture the essence of human intelligence, for example. And current gen models pass it with flying colors. And we needed machines to pass it to realize that it's such a weak measure.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @SimpleStacker 9h

Bookmarked. Looks like it's gonna be worth a read, but it's long.