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> Defining intelligence as "the thing brains do" is a mistake This is a pretty bold claim. Brains are our only vantage points, and we also define life as "what
by dvt 5y ago
> Defining intelligence as "the thing brains do" is a mistake
This is a pretty bold claim. Brains are our only vantage points, and we also define life as "what's going on in a petri dish." But in any case, your point is self-defeating: what GPT-3 and DALL-E are doing is literally creating models about how we (humans) perceive the world.
- hackinthebochs 5y ago>what GPT-3 and DALL-E are doing is literally creating models about how we (humans) perceive the world. Not really. They're creating models of how pixel-space covaries with word sequences over human-meaningful samples. These models are modelling the space of human meaning, not human perception.