There is no AI in PANIC

a friend recently sent me https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/26/opinion/microsoft-bing-sydney-artificial-intelligence.html in response to this output from a WIP at http://ai.numina.org I responded with this: No problem. I mean, I have been working in the digital for over 40 years. Already during one of my business trips to Salt Lake City in the 80s, an enforced and extended separation from my family, I felt used by evolution as a handmaid to help bring this new species to life. The AI built into video games at the time was extremely simple and illusory but people still bought it because we have evolved a theory of mind to interpret, predict and control the behavior of our own species and we project it onto anything which seems to be making decisions by a process we can't inspect directly. The article had some worthwhile points to make, though when the author said, maybe we aren't talking about the right things, I assume he means opinion writers in mainstream publica...