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  • Weird that I just watched something on this the other day! Psychologists like B. F. Skinner proposed that speech, and really all intelligence, was a learned behaviour. With enough positive and negative feedback, you could teach animals to do math or speak.

    Linguist Noam Chomsky said that was the dumbest idea he’s ever heard because humans don’t learn speech. Speech is something innate in the human mind.

    A group of scientists decided to prove Chomsky wrong and raised a chimp from birth while constantly training it on how to speak through methods that Skinner had pioneered. The chimp was named Nim Chimpsky and the most sophisticated thing it ever said is the quote in the OP image. After that, scientists decided Chomsky was right. Humans have a special talent for language that cannot be taught to animals that don’t already possess it.




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  • Interesting that the thread is filled with people saying using AI to make a flyer is fine because the person making the flyer doesn’t have the time, skill, or budget to do anything more than some text and clip art.

    Doesn’t that argument literally apply to everything AI is used for? Isn’t AI literally being marketed as the tool to use to do the thing you don’t have the time, skill, or budget to do?

    Someone doesn’t have the time, skill, or budget to make a nice looking website? Just use AI. Someone doesn’t have the time, skill, or budget to make a nice looking menu for their restaurant? Just use AI.

    Why does that argument work here but not for everything AI is used for?