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BillTre reacted to PeterDonis's post in the thread Is A.I. more than the sum of its parts? with
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One could make a similar argument about humans--our brains are just physical systems running according to physical laws, after all. No... -
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My first experience with a boomerang involved a Christmas gift for my boy. We took it outside to try it. I read the instructions, which...
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BillTre reacted to russ_watters's post in the thread Is A.I. more than the sum of its parts? with Like.
That's a hard sell to the family of a guy who got decapitated when his self-driving car drove under a truck it thought was a cloud.
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Yes, we do. That simply is not the case. All of those things are currently being done and hallucinations not only persist, there is some...
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Sure. The debate is more about whether the word “agency” should be used to describe that. I am just saying that these words (agency and...
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BillTre reacted to PeterDonis's post in the thread Is A.I. more than the sum of its parts? with Like.
If "AGI" in the form of LLMs is a threat, I don't think it's because it understands anything. I think it's because there will be humans...
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BillTre reacted to PeterDonis's post in the thread Is A.I. more than the sum of its parts? with Like.
As anyone who has written a book report for school based on Cliff's Notes can tell you, being able to produce plausible-sounding text on...
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BillTre reacted to PeterDonis's post in the thread Is A.I. more than the sum of its parts? with Like.
I think this is a vast overstatement. It "knows" what's in its training data. But its training data still falls far, far short of...
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BillTre reacted to PeterDonis's post in the thread Is A.I. more than the sum of its parts? with Like.
A creature can have agency, in the sense that its actions have clear and highly non-random relationships to its circumstances and to...
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BillTre reacted to PeterDonis's post in the thread Is A.I. more than the sum of its parts? with Like.
Sure they are: they're computer programs. A computer program is a set of specific instructions on how to process information. But of...
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BillTre reacted to PeterDonis's post in the thread Is A.I. more than the sum of its parts? with Like.
In the sense that it produces arrangements of words that are not in its training data, sure. But the only information it has as input...
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BillTre reacted to PeterDonis's post in the thread Is A.I. more than the sum of its parts? with Like.
As I said before, if you have references to peer-reviewed literature on the topic, you are welcome to start a new thread in the...
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Great idea!
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