Why AI isn't 'alien intelligence': a tree is stranger than any model
LucaAmb · x · 2026-11-02
The author pushes back on the fashionable framing of AI as an "alien intelligence": despite much we don't yet understand about it, AI is technically sound and explainable. From that standpoint, a tree is a far better example of alien intelligence than AI.
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