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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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What makes something "human" rather than "machine"? According to physicalism, humans are machines--very complex ones, but still... -
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One could say the same thing about a random number generator. But they are designed to do things always in a specific way: they must... -
russ_watters reacted to BillTre's post in the thread Is A.I. more than the sum of its parts? with Like.
This argument can be much stronger if one were to consider free-living single cells, rather than those that are part of a larger...
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russ_watters replied to the thread Is A.I. more than the sum of its parts?.A lot of these philosophical terms we are discussing can have broad and narrow (weak and strong) interpretations, which is the source of...
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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.
And I necessarily agree with Dale's point: the "intelligent yes or no" debate is really pointless. Perhaps it's a waste of time. 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.
No. Furthermore, you touch on an important point here: the difference between a mistake and a hallucination is still being defined. Both...
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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'll mention a problem I see with the term "intelligence." It's just a word, a concept we use to refer to a very diverse set of...
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russ_watters replied to the thread Is A.I. more than the sum of its parts?.I'm not sure, but I behave as if it's my choice/free-will because surrendering to fate guarantees that I'm not in control. I think I...
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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.
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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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 Agree.
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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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...