I had to laugh at the idea of AI Chat apps being dumbed down through their interaction with humans; not to make light of something that will only increase with it’s ubiquity, intruding into all aspects of human interactivity.
https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1146870830819995&set=a.634822885358128
We viewed a short demo of Boston Dynamics’ “Spot”, the “talking dog”, which illustrated various styles of language that are programmed into this contraption, and at about 6 minutes in, the contraption started using the Woke Language.
I enjoyed a companion article to the Facebook post you shared, about potential consequences of AI.
… it can’t be “dumbed down” because it has no intelligence. But it can mimic stupidity …
See Hubert Dreyfus - (1) What Computers Can’t Do and (2) What Computers Still Can’t Do. 1972 and 1992 respectively. I think both are available gratis on Archive.org
… It (the computer) doesn’t “know” anything. It can neither assert nor propose. It can not experience nor remember. It can not INTERPRET It can not reason. It can not, as Antonio Damasio would say, “Have the feeling of what is happening”. But, and most importantly, it can not go “outside” its database.
it would probably be best to stop thinking about computers Anthropomorphically.
… and no matter how many dyads are strung together to produce whatever length of dyadic chain at whatever speed is achievable … it will always be the Illusion of Thought.