Someone’s cognitive labor went into making the rabbit mold, and everything from there on out is eliminating the need to repeat that labor, and to reduce the number of people who need to have that knowledge. But somewhere, someone had to do enough cognitive labor to design and make the mold (or the mold-making process and equipment).
If instead there were a machine to which I could say “I want a rabbit mold for chocolate,” and it would produce one without further human intervention, I’d have to reach farther to argue it isn’t AI. Narrow AI, if it is scouring ads online for “mold,” “chocolate,” “rabbit,” and suggesting a top contender, more general AI if it is a mold-designing program with previous examples of “rabbit” molds and “chocolate” molds, and pretty darn general if it begins by scouring a library of information about chocolatiers, lagomorphs, Easter, materials science, human vision, commercials for existing chocolate rabbits, and cartoons and children’s books with rabbit characters.
>Someone’s cognitive labor went into making the rabbit mold, and everything from there on out is eliminating the need to repeat that labor, and to reduce the number of people who need to have that knowledge.
Yeah, that’s the kind of thing I had in mind in the last paragraph.
Someone’s cognitive labor went into making the rabbit mold, and everything from there on out is eliminating the need to repeat that labor, and to reduce the number of people who need to have that knowledge. But somewhere, someone had to do enough cognitive labor to design and make the mold (or the mold-making process and equipment).
If instead there were a machine to which I could say “I want a rabbit mold for chocolate,” and it would produce one without further human intervention, I’d have to reach farther to argue it isn’t AI. Narrow AI, if it is scouring ads online for “mold,” “chocolate,” “rabbit,” and suggesting a top contender, more general AI if it is a mold-designing program with previous examples of “rabbit” molds and “chocolate” molds, and pretty darn general if it begins by scouring a library of information about chocolatiers, lagomorphs, Easter, materials science, human vision, commercials for existing chocolate rabbits, and cartoons and children’s books with rabbit characters.
>Someone’s cognitive labor went into making the rabbit mold, and everything from there on out is eliminating the need to repeat that labor, and to reduce the number of people who need to have that knowledge.
Yeah, that’s the kind of thing I had in mind in the last paragraph.