Corporations are people too :)
Under law they are actually qualified as "artificial persons". I think about this from time to time, and what deeper meaning does it carry.
Under law they are actually qualified as "artificial persons". I think about this from time to time, and what deeper meaning does it carry.
Americans have the freedom of speech, and they don't lose that every time they join up with a few mates and e.g. walk down the street (and perhaps protest together), or run a business (and perhaps donate money to political candidates together).
The people who own Apple, who work at Apple, etc. They do have feelings and desires, etc. The thing is, we're talking about a huge number of people. Very few - if any - actually know you personally. Some are nice people. Some are not.
AI isn't intelligence.
It's just a to make a parallel as some attributes are similar or identical, but not all, so they don't quality as the real. Mere similarities only.
An artificial dog represented by a picture of a dog (visually looks quite like a dog), does not move, no life, no smell, no neurons, blood, muscles and bones. Hence not a dog.
But they are people in a sense that they may own property, be sued, etc. What interests me is why they are called an "artificial person" in the first place. Why are they not just called a "business" by law or a similar term. Calling something a person, even if it's artificial carries with itself great implications.
Labelling businesses as (artificial) persons is probably to put the emphasis that (with regards to the law) they will be treated the same as persons. With regards to certain rights given they granted them the same.
Imagine when the concept was introduced, some may have been against it but for sure many did not even comprehend what it meant. "How can a business be the same as a person" asked the layman, "not the same as, an artificial person" said the legislator.
Only speculating, and trying to find reasons for not seeing more than some weirdness that put into historical perspective may not be so suspicious.
As an example of things not changing, we are now calling those prompts spitting back highly probable statistical predictions of correctness in the output "artificial intelligence".
There isn't any intelligence in LLMs. Just adoption of how neurons are connected in our brain. Nodes aren't neurons in those algorthms, they are artificial neurons, connections between nodes are nothing like the actual links between neurons. Not even close. They are like what a rough map is to a territory, to make a parallel with what's on the wikipedia page the cousin post mentions.
Artificial neural network mimicing binary graphs would be a more appropriate naming. People would not have a clue what that means. Here, layman, it's artificial intelligence, see, it writes, talks and even answer questions better than most university teachers.
It looks at what sort of 'people' Corporations are:
The documentary attempts to compare the way corporations are systematically compelled to behave with what it claims are the DSM-IV's symptoms of psychopathy, e.g., the callous disregard for the feelings of other people, the incapacity to maintain human relationships, the reckless disregard for the safety of others, the deceitfulness (continual lying to deceive for profit), the incapacity to experience guilt, and the failure to conform to social norms and respect the law.