gmail’s spam filter does not have degrees of belief or belief.
It has things which you could call by those words if you really wanted to. But it wouldn’t make them into the same things those words mean when referring to people.
Augh, this reminded me of a quote that I can’t seem to find based on my tentative memory of its component words… it was something to the effect that we anthropomorphize computers and talk about them “knowing” things or “communicating” with each other, and some people think that’s wrong and they don’t really do those things, and the quote-ee was of the opinion that computers were clarifying what we meant by those concepts all along. Anybody know what I’m talking about?
Augh, this reminded me of a quote that I can’t seem to find based on my tentative memory of its component words… it was something to the effect that we anthropomorphize computers and talk about them “knowing” things or “communicating” with each other, and some people think that’s wrong and they don’t really do those things, and the quote-ee was of the opinion that computers were clarifying what we meant by those concepts all along. Anybody know what I’m talking about?
To be clear, I think computers can do those things and AIs will, and that will help clarify the concepts a lot.
But I don’t think that microsoft word does it. Nor any game “AI” today. Nor gmail’s spam filter which just does mindlessly math.