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IBM's marketing sparks debate on AI's true capabilities and limitations

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This post critiques IBM's marketing around Distributed Energy Resources (DER), questioning its sincerity and comparing AI models to a jellyfish. The author argues that AI models, like Watson, are limited by their underlying heuristics and cannot achieve true understanding or immortality, regardless of their complexity. The piece delves into philosophical concepts of realism and anti-realism in relation to AI perception and cognition. AI

IMPACT Critiques the philosophical limitations and marketing of AI, suggesting a need for deeper understanding beyond current models.

RANK_REASON This is an opinion piece discussing AI and marketing, not a factual report on a new development.

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IBM's marketing sparks debate on AI's true capabilities and limitations

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  1. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    # DER https://www. ibm.com/think/topics/distribut ed-energy-resources Is IBM trying to distance itself from its sordid past, or is this just the patronising wor

    # DER https://www. ibm.com/think/topics/distribut ed-energy-resources Is IBM trying to distance itself from its sordid past, or is this just the patronising work of its marketing? Consider a parallel distributed network of processors weighted by adaptive heuristics, give it a nam…

    LINKS ibm.com/…/distributed-energy-resources ibm.com/…/topics

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