Dismissing current tech as pattern matching is silly. The models can clearly reason, just nowhere as well as humans can. Humans are just advanced pattern matchers, we’re much less special than we sometimes like to think

Far fewer people hate AI in the general population as a percentage than on Lemmy. Your average person either doesn’t care or has found it useful in some way.

Right, “equivalent to” in the sense that legs are “equivalent to” fins in that they provide locomotion.

Not quite - mating types aren’t sex (though the post confuses them). Their gametes are the same size (isogamy), so it’s called mating types. Humans have gametes of different sizes, so we have sexes.