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Modular Cognition

• jorgeleo 5y ago
  Not really following this article: "Likewise, if two mouse embryos are mushed together like a snowball, a single, normal mouse results" And "This is intelligence in action: the ability to reach a particular goal or solve a problem by undertaking new steps in the face of changing circumstances" I write software that can account for changes in context and still reach a particular goal. This is not new, creating TCP from UDP where the network can constantly be changing is not something that I will call "Intelligent". The guy(s) that created the original algorithm are, but the network packets themselves are not. There are differences between intelligence and just following well crafted procedures.
  • jotm 5y ago
    That is (very limited) intelligence imo. It's nothing more than a very complex, ever increasing set of procedures plus a huge amount of data and a fast processor. I mean, the more you know about something, the less "magic" it seems. You know algorithms, the author may not. Pretty sure someone from the 1700's would think a smartphone with some personal assistant software on it was intelligent (even if possessed), for example.
• smegsicle 5y ago
  pretty fun talk by the same guy: What Bodies Think About: Bioelectric Computation Outside the Nervous System - NeurIPS 2018 https://yewtu.be/watch?v=RjD1aLm4Thg https://yewtu.be/watch?v=RjD1aLm4Thg
  • mateo1 5y ago
    That's absolutely incredible, thank you for posting it.