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Ah. Douglas Hofstadter. Reread Gödel, Escher, Bach countless times. It must have been a forming book for me. If found Le Ton beau de Marot very moving although
by isaacfrond 4y ago
Ah. Douglas Hofstadter. Reread Gödel, Escher, Bach countless times. It must have been a forming book for me. If found Le Ton beau de Marot very moving although his ideas about AI were getting annoying. His view on translation expressed in that book is of course miles out of date.
The mind's I, metamagical themes. all wonderful.
Buuuut, I'm a strange loop and his other tirades against artificial intelligence are getting strained. Gpt-3 is not conscious. No really. We needed mr. Hofstadter to point this out to use because other people 'don’t give it input that stretches concepts beyond their breaking points, so they don’t expose the hollowness behind the scenes'.
I challenge you to play 5 seconds with GPT-3 and not be exasperated with its stupidity. It's the gems produced by this statistical monster that should be eye-openingly shocking to you.
- throwawaymaths 4y agoYou should read "fluid concepts and creative analogies", it's about his AI research results.
- pvitz 4y agoReading about "copycat" was very inspiring. There was "metacat" as a successor, but beyond that, I am not aware of additional research. Would you know why this direction wasn't followed further?
- throwawaymaths 4y agoNo clue. I once cold-emailed Douglas Hofstadter to try to be a postdoc in his lab and work on merging some deep learning with his copycat stuff but he said he had stopped this line of inquiry.