<AI is just a bunch of if-then statements> is the kind of stupid take that you have to have an above average IQ to fool yourself with.
@WomanCorn It's a more down to earth way of saying deep neural net with a ReLU activation function. Down to earth is good.
@julesjacobs if they people saying it didn't then go on to ascribe programmer intent to everything ChatGPT says, that might be reassuring.
Instead, they're making themselves more wrong.
a Schelling point for those who seek one