A reply argues humans and AI are both products of accumulated society
ericelliott_ · x · 2026-08-04
The post continues the rebuttal to Lanier’s “AI is an illusion” line.
It argues that if AI is “the sum of all bundled human intelligence,” then humans are not very different either: people are also the product of accumulated society, memory, and experience. The thread’s point is that the boundary between human and machine intelligence may be less absolute than the slogan suggests.
Related event: Jaron Lanier Sparks Debate by Calling AI an Illusion of Human Intelligence(3 posts)→
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