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russ_watters reacted to berkeman's post in the thread Other Is having bad resources from university normal? with
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No need for any reporting of that. I think the motivation for guessing what the OP meant was based on the slow replies from the OP... -
russ_watters reacted to Dale's post in the thread Is A.I. more than the sum of its parts? with Like.
There are ongoing debates on this topic both in psychology (how much of what we think is a conscious decision is actually a...
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russ_watters reacted to Dale's post in the thread Is A.I. more than the sum of its parts? with Like.
We don’t know if humans have agency. We have trouble defining and reliably measuring intelligence in humans. One thing that I think is...
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That is a philosophical question https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room does a pocket calculator understand the commutativity of...
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russ_watters reacted to webplodder's post in the thread Is A.I. more than the sum of its parts? with Like.
Well, IMO, even the most straightforward systems can become unpredictable if you run them long enough. Nothing is totally predictable...
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russ_watters replied to the thread Looking for movies where mathematics actually matters.I'll vote for The Imitation Game.
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russ_watters reacted to Borek's post in the thread Is A.I. more than the sum of its parts? with Like.
Google for "emergent properties". And this basically boils down to eons old discussion between reductionists and their opponents. Don't...
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russ_watters replied to the thread Is A.I. more than the sum of its parts?.Do I have access to the internet/google and a large time handicap? If so, then I like my odds. But that wouldn't prove I'm very...
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russ_watters reacted to PeroK's post in the thread Is A.I. more than the sum of its parts? with
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That's just avoiding the question. The fact that somebody, somewhere decided wrongly that a dumb machine was intelligent shouldn't... -
It is kinda sad that not enough people are interested in space. Yeah, I know things are going off the rails in 2026 (AI stuff and wars)...
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russ_watters reacted to PeterDonis's post in the thread Is A.I. more than the sum of its parts? with Like.
If we don't know the answer for our brains, I don't see how we could usefully answer the question about computers (whether running...
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russ_watters replied to the thread Is A.I. more than the sum of its parts?.Poorly and infrequently. I'm aware that winning at chess by calculation alone is difficult and improving efficiency means the...
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russ_watters reacted to javisot's post in the thread Is A.I. more than the sum of its parts? with Like.
I remember the anecdote of the second game between Kasparov and Deep Blue. At a certain point in the game, Kasparov got angry because he...
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russ_watters reacted to Hill's post in the thread Is A.I. more than the sum of its parts? with Like.
Doesn't it simply mean that there are different kinds of "intelligence"? Human intelligence, computer intelligence, canine intelligence...
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russ_watters replied to the thread Is A.I. more than the sum of its parts?.The reason games like chess don't impress me much is that they are structured, boundedd and limited. It's basically a complicated math...