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russ_watters replied to the thread Is A.I. more than the sum of its parts?.Yes, understood/agreed/a fan of Rush. -
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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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I personally would not use the words "agenda" and "subverting", as those do not seem to be neutral terms regarding the question of... -
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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... -
russ_watters replied to the thread Is A.I. more than the sum of its parts?.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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I think this may be too strong a statement. We certainly can say that we know all of the weights in a trained deep neural network. And... -
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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... -
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This argument can be much stronger if one were to consider free-living single cells, rather than those that are part of a larger... -
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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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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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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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... -
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...