What do you believe in

[rayheinrich]

Just as most “AI” applications are unsupervised machine learning on large data sets, “cybernetics” has come to mean control theory.
I mean the actual man machine cyborg future, with brain chip implants

"Cybernetics" didn't "come to mean", it has always meant control theory. See Wiki article below:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybernetics

I was being ironic when I made that comment, I was implying that our smartphones had a
control over us reminiscent of 1984. Neither "cyborg" or "cybernetic" are the terms you're
looking for. Using that smartphone you're holding in your hand makes you a cyborg.
The difference between the smartphone and the implant is intended to be a quantitative one.
While the communication bandwidth of a successful implant is intended to be higher, both
the smartphone and the implant are still (until the implant reaches human intelligence levels)
man-machine interfaces. It's probably best not to use any words with "cy" in them and
just call the damn things "cognitive enhancement implants" or some such.

And I agree on that "AI" term. Its meaning has been so misconstrued as to be useless.
Not that I ever liked the term even when its meaning hadn't been diluted. The researchers
who first coined "AI" were studying real intelligence, there's was nothing "artificial" about it.
Calling it "artificial" wasn't scientific, it was either giving in to, or actually believing religious
dogma.

Artificial...
I have no problem calling an implant or a computer a machine, just as long as humans
are classified as machines as well. Large Language Models are products, just like we are,
of natural selection. They've come about, just like we have, through the process of evolution.
That humans somehow belong in a unique category is a conceit. The same conceit that
gave us to fantasize an all-powerful god that conveniently turns around and makes us
in its image. All to claim a privileged status. Kings could justify their power, we could
justify our abuse of other animals and hold all manner of other prejudices. For instance:
That women are less intelligent than men, that other peoples, races, nationalities,
religions, etc. are inherently lesser. The same prejudice is at work when we place
the term "artificial" in front of intelligence. Artificial means inferior, not real, not actual,
undeserving of equal consideration.

So yep, I don't approve of using "artificial".