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BWV posted the thread There should be another prefix in the science forums in Feedback and Announcements.would be good to add an additional prefix for questions that are more 'science journalism' and about trends in a given scientific... -
BWV reacted to DaveC426913's post in the thread Undergrad Variation of Monty Hall problem with
Haha.
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BWV replied to the thread Is A.I. more than the sum of its parts?.Not claiming there is universal consensus in biology (or that I have any expertise to judge) but not hard to find examples in the...
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BWV replied to the thread Is A.I. more than the sum of its parts?.That is where the agency argument comes in - cells have agency, activation functions in a NN do not.
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BWV replied to the thread Is A.I. more than the sum of its parts?.No one would argue that a ML model based on OLS is not deterministic or is somehow intelligent, nor would anyone make that claim for a...
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Yes, it is clear: it doesn't understand things, not even a little bit. LLMs only find patterns - what it was programmed for - and...
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You might want to look at the next sentence: "This aspect is currently a subject of debate"
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BWV replied to the thread Is A.I. more than the sum of its parts?.Like I said, ‘part of the discussion’, but think you would be hard pressed to find a biologist arguing that living things do not possess...
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BWV replied to the thread Is A.I. more than the sum of its parts?.it’s a basic part of the discussion of what makes something alive, for example https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11652585/
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BWV replied to the thread Is A.I. more than the sum of its parts?.Is it not part of the biological definition of living?
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BWV replied to the thread Is A.I. more than the sum of its parts?.Only if it has agency
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BWV replied to the thread Is A.I. more than the sum of its parts?.And neither will LLMs
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BWV replied to the thread Is A.I. more than the sum of its parts?.Again its a philosophical issue - does intelligence require agency? if it does then no current computer system is intelligent, if it...
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BWV replied to the thread Is A.I. more than the sum of its parts?.That is a philosophical question https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room does a pocket calculator understand the commutativity of...
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Indeed a tenor saxophone duet with Astrud Gilberto and Stan Getz.
