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I don't think AI is unintelligent, but human brains aren't just programs. We don't even have a definitive answer to how neuron signals are 'stored' in the brain
by A12-B 6y ago
I don't think AI is unintelligent, but human brains aren't just programs. We don't even have a definitive answer to how neuron signals are 'stored' in the brain. There is no equivalent to a memory address in there. It's an open problem. How could one say human brains are basically just programs if we don't even operate on the same hardware as programs, and the hardware we do operate on is too complex to be understood by us?
- IshKebab 6y agoI think you might have misunderstood. When I say they're programs I mean that the answer a brain outputs could also be computed by a (sufficiently powerful) computer program. I don't mean that they're literally dealing in bits and bytes. Artificial neural networks don't have "memory addresses" to store data in the same way that a conventional program does either. But they can still store data. GPT-3 knows the first page of Harry Potter, but if you feel through its weights you won't find any of the text. The knowledge is distributed somehow (in a way that we don't fully understand). Despite that GPT-3 is clearly a program.