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PeterDonis replied to the thread Is A.I. more than the sum of its parts?.Not current LLMs, because they don't have the other information channels to the world that Helen Keller had. A future AI that did have... -
PeterDonis replied to the thread Is A.I. more than the sum of its parts?.No, it doesn't. It doesn't even have the concept of the text it processes being "about" anything. That's by design; its designers didn't...
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PeterDonis replied to the thread Is A.I. more than the sum of its parts?.No, very different from humans, because humans can do lots of things besides produce text. You keep missing this crucial point...
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Perhaps, but nebulous or not, the concepts of self-awareness and self-preservation come into the debate. In the hard sciences things...
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The ##\alpha## and ##\beta## apply initially to the state of an electron, but after the interaction with a measuring device, they apply... -
Yes. As I already invited @PeroK : Give me a test for measuring self-awareness and then that is the line. He didn't provide one, so I...
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I think that was an initial thought about the problem, but ... ... more sophisticated models with more training data have actually been...
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I thought we did know why they hallucinate? My understanding: They don't store the training data, they store statistics about the...
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PeterDonis replied to the thread Is A.I. more than the sum of its parts?.Let me rephrase this in physicalist language: There are processes that go on in your brain that have causal effects on your body and...
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PeterDonis replied to the thread Undergrad Sean Carroll's description of the Many Worlds interpretation.@DaveBeal, as my responses should show you, you can't just wave your hands about what the MWI says. You have to do the actual math...
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PeterDonis replied to the thread Undergrad Sean Carroll's description of the Many Worlds interpretation.No, it is one single wave function with two terms in it--each term is referred to as a "branch". There's no question of whether it...
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PeterDonis replied to the thread Undergrad Sean Carroll's description of the Many Worlds interpretation.Sort of. There is only one wave function, which includes both branches; but in the wave function after the measurement, the electron is...
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PeterDonis replied to the thread Undergrad Sean Carroll's description of the Many Worlds interpretation.Moderator's note: Thread moved to the QM interpretations subforum.
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PeterDonis replied to the thread Is A.I. more than the sum of its parts?.What makes something "human" rather than "machine"? According to physicalism, humans are machines--very complex ones, but still...
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PeterDonis replied to the thread Is A.I. more than the sum of its parts?.In what sense? In what sense? Both are just following physical laws. What's the difference between them that makes one an "agent" and...