• Warehouse@lemmy.ca
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    8 hours ago

    A calculator can multiply 2887618 * 99289192 faster than you ever could. Does that make a calculator intelligent?

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      8 hours ago

      It’s not an agent with its own goals so in the gamedev definition, no. By calculator standards, also not. But just as a washing machine with sufficient smarts is called intelligent, so it’s, in principle, possible to call a calculator intelligent if it’s smart enough. WolframAlpha certainly qualifies. And not just the newfangled LLM-enabled stuff I used Mathematica back in the early 00s and it blew me the fuck away. That thing is certainly better at finding closed forms than me.