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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
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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... -
russ_watters reacted to PeterDonis's post in the thread Is A.I. more than the sum of its parts? with Like.
In a very, very restricted domain, one can argue this, yes. I actually have no problem with the general idea that all "intelligence"...
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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.
See the bolded additions I made above to your claims. They make a huge difference. The claim in the hype is AGI--artificial general...
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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.
You're missing the point. What I was describing was not "calling bullshit" based on reading a book report written from Cliff's Notes...
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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
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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... -
russ_watters replied to the thread Is A.I. more than the sum of its parts?.This isn't exactly true, nor do I think it's applicable to LLMs/AI. Typical engineering systems are supposed to be deterministic. We...
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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 Agree.
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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russ_watters 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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russ_watters 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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russ_watters 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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russ_watters replied to the thread Is A.I. more than the sum of its parts?.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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russ_watters replied to the thread Is A.I. more than the sum of its parts?.It would be silly to believe the field hasn't made progress, and I never said that. Please don't read past what I've said or put words...
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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.
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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russ_watters reacted to javisot's post in the thread Is A.I. more than the sum of its parts? with Like.
100% agree. AI hallucinations are not a creative and positive process. It's a malfunction and a loss of effectiveness. The fact that AI...
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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.
Yes. And because we cannot currently pinpoint the source of the malfunction it is one that we cannot directly resolve. We have a long...