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You're right - it's not "everything". But here's the thing: it doesn't need everything. It needs enough patterns, enough noise, enough...

We hand over critical stuff to black-box systems every day - traffic lights, autopilot, even stock-trading algos - and we don't know...

You're right - it's not trivial. And honestly? We don't know. Our brains are black boxes too - fMRI lights up, EEG buzzes, but no one's...

We don't need to know the exact source part to fix the whole. Iterative testing, red-teaming, alignment research, and scaling laws let...

We may already be seeing that. Even computer systems much simpler than chatbots or neural networks can exhibit unpredictable behaviour...

I mean they sample from PDF's to generate their output. Even the models weights are fuzzed for models like Chatgpt depending on user...

Fair enough - let's flip it. Even if we slice AI up by type, "sum" and "more than" don't need fancy definitions. They just mean: does...

They're just fast food. You don't want to live on it, but if you're starving and need to get the gist before you read the whole book...

I would say the latest ones are far from dumb based on my own experiences. Not human-level true, but they're getting there in my opinion.

Well, if we have to figure them out after the fact, how can we really know? Obviously, there will be limits, but how do we predict those?

I think it's not true that current LLM's are deterministic. They all incorporate some level of stochasticity.

I think the emergence of a 'mind' within LLMs should be seen as an abstraction from the basic hardware and software. Once that’s...

Google for "emergent properties". And this basically boils down to eons old discussion between reductionists and their opponents. Don't...

Fair enough, and since there’s no clear definition of consciousness, it’s reasonable to think it could emerge from complex systems in...