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The question is why do programmers believe they know more than Chomsky? The AI we have now is engineering and not science. Don’t you need science to create AI?
by cactusplant7374 4y ago
The question is why do programmers believe they know more than Chomsky?
The AI we have now is engineering and not science. Don’t you need science to create AI? Don’t you need to understand something fundamental about the brain?
- coldtea 4y agoI don't believe that much in any realistic timeframe from AGI, but I don't think you "need to understand something fundamental" to create it. You can create almost anything empirically, without knowing the science behind it at any fundamental level. Evolution, for example, didn't understand anything (as it's just a process). It wasn't someone with an understanding of brains at the scientific level that built our brains. Just an iterative trial and error process with evolutionary feedback. To make a simplistic argument, kind of like we can create fire, without knowing about oxidation and chemistry.
- cactusplant7374 4y agoIf I understand you correctly, your sentiment is that humans can stumble upon and solve the most complex problem on the planet? OpenAI claims to be working on AGI. Nothing they have built is even tangentially related.
- olalonde 4y agoNot necessarily. Volta invented the battery almost a 100 years before the electron was discovered. Also, planes fly very differently from birds.
- cactusplant7374 4y agoThose things are a billion times less complex than human cognition. It’s also interesting your remark on birds and planes. Chomsky uses a similar analogy to say they are dissimilar: can a submarine swim? Well, depends on what you mean by swim.