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russ_watters replied to the thread On Progress Toward AGI.They lay out a logical case based on Turing's test as the threshold, but if LLMs are AGI then AGI is pretty disappointing and we'll need... -
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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To follow up on this a bit: humans don't learn to interact with the world in non-textual ways by processing text. We have much of those... -
russ_watters reacted to PeterDonis's post in the thread Is A.I. more than the sum of its parts? with Like.
I'm skeptical because in the only example of such intelligence that we know exists, we humans, it did not arise from linguistics alone...
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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.
Same here. The risks and benefits of the technology are better discussed without these terms, in my opinion. If an AI making financial...
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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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russ_watters reacted to PeterDonis's post in the thread Is A.I. more than the sum of its parts? with Like.
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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The bots are now hiring! https://rentahuman.ai/ It's interesting how many people are ready to farm themselves out. I guess this will...
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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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I personally would not use the words "agenda" and "subverting", as those do not seem to be neutral terms regarding the question of... -
russ_watters reacted to Dale's post in the thread Is A.I. more than the sum of its parts? with Like.
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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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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russ_watters reacted to Dale's post in the thread Is A.I. more than the sum of its parts? with Like.
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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russ_watters reacted to PeterDonis's post in the thread Is A.I. more than the sum of its parts? with Agree.
What makes something "human" rather than "machine"? According to physicalism, humans are machines--very complex ones, but still...
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russ_watters reacted to jack action's post in the thread Is A.I. more than the sum of its parts? with Like.
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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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...