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Putting the Stargate AI Hype into Perspective, by William M Briggs – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

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By William M Briggs, The Stream, February 3, 2025

William M. Briggs is a contributor to The Stream, the author of Uncertainty and maintains an active and lively blog at wmbriggs.com. He earned his Ph.D. from Cornell University in statistics and studies the philosophy of science, the use and misuses of uncertainty, the corruption of science and the uselessness of most predictions. He began life as a cryptologist for the Air Force, slipped into weather and climate forecasting, and matured into an epistemologist.

 

You’ll do yourself and the world a tremendous service if every time you see or hear the term “AI” you substitute the phrase “computer model.”

This is because so-called artificial intelligence (AI) is a computer model — or more specifically, a collection of many such models. When you hear “computer model” instead of “AI,” you’re much less apt to become excited or nervous, and when you speak the substitution it becomes much less easy to boast or to have the boast taken overly seriously.

With that in mind, let’s look at the buzz around the government’s new Stargate Project. Not the old Star Gate Project from the 1990s that was run by the CIA with a particular concern for what the Chinese and Russians were up to. The new Stargate (sans space) is about computer models, with a particular concern for what the Chinese and Russians are up to. ….

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