You do realize that you don't hear your real voice normally, an individual has to record their voice to hear how others hear their voice. What you hear when you speak includes your skull resonating, which other's do not hear.
There is a critical failure in education - people are not being taught how to debate without degenerating into a dominance debate or merely an echo chamber of talking points. It's a real problem, people literally do not understand that a question is not an opportunity to show off or to dominate, but is a request for an exchange of information.
And that problem is not just between people, this lack of communication skill continues with people's internal self conversations. Many a bully personality is that way because they bully themselves and terrorize themselves.
It's no wonder that people can use AI at all, with how poorly people communicate. So the cluster of nonsense that is all the shallow thinkers directing people down incorrect paths is completely understandable. They are learning by doing, which with any other technology would be fine, but with AI to learn how to use it by using it can serious damage one's cognitive ability, as well as leave a junkyard of failed projects behind.
Intelligence as described is not the entire "requirement" for intelligence. There are probably more layers here, but I see "intelligence" as the 2nd layer, and beneath that later is comprehension which is the ability to discriminate between similar things, even things trying to decieve you. And at layer zero is the giant mechanism pushing this layered form of intelligence found in living things is the predator / prey dynamic that dictates being alive or food for something remaining alive.
"Intelligence in AI" lacks any existential dynamic, our LLMs are literally linguistic mirrors of human literature and activity tracks. They are not intelligent, but for the most part we can imagine they are, while maintaining sharp critical analysis because they are idiot savants in the truest sense.
You forgot a neutered education system, in response to the 60's counterculture revolt. The US education system produces functional illiterates, who can do a job created and prepared for a wage slave, but cannot discuss anything materially important outside their specialized field without descending into dominance debate, which destroys constructive information exchange, any learning, and any intellectual growth.
It more basic than that, it is what used to be considered common sense. The United States has screwed basic education, effective communications is not even taught - the seed of common sense, and has been producing intellectually crippled wage slaves for that last 40+ years. It's going to require a culture revolution to pull out of this nose civilization-wide dive, and that revolution is not going to happen in the USA.
I have really noticed that over the past year or two. A worrying number of Americans seem to lack even basic knowledge of the world outside America or even have the ability to think seriously about the long term consequences of decisions. That's not saying all Americans are this way - far from it - but it does seem that a critical mass has been reached. Things like Trump are only symptoms of this, and I cannot see any realistic way the situation can be salvaged.
Add to that, few Americans know history beyond the American History (propaganda) they were taught in elementary school and have little to no interest in history at all, and if they do it's battles and war and glory nonsense. Few Americans can even conceive of the concept of their location in history. Far too many 'mericans think the Earth is Biblical's aged to be around 6K years... A critical number of them too, enough to keep abject morons in government offices.
Lots of emotional commenting here. This guy, Panos Ipeirotis, is seriously on to the way university testing and corporate seminar testing will be done in the immediate future, as well as going forward. Complain all you want, this is inevitable. This initial version will improve. In time, more complex and multi-mod voice agents will do the teaching too, entirely individualized as well.
But "in any functioning society" is not our society. Human civilization is marginally functional, wildly spotty in the distribution of comfort, with the majority of humanity receiving significantly less than others.
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