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This is a totally uninformed/naïve/layman’s take, but what if AGI is just a really good language model used in a clever way such that it can perform an efficien
by rlt 4y ago
This is a totally uninformed/naïve/layman’s take, but what if AGI is just a really good language model used in a clever way such that it can perform an efficient search of its “thought” space, validating its thoughts are correct along the way. Programming, logic, math, etc are perhaps the easiest forms of “thoughts” for a computer to validate, but given enough quality data maybe it could be good at all kinds of other tasks as well.
- kaba0 4y agoPeople not only search a thought space, we have internal reasoning that does symbolic manipulations and sequential steps to get to a conclusion. Like, you would have no problem following a simple rule given to you ad infinity, while these models simply can’t take into account all that.
- rlt 4y agoComputers can reason and do symbolic manipulation too (e.x. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_algebra https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_algebra). There’s no reason to believe AGI will be composed of only language models. I suspect it will be a combination of multiple models and a lot of other software glued together in clever ways.
- kaba0 4y agoYeah I know, but we are not that much closer to it contrary to the hype ChatGPT gets (which is well-deserved, but “we will loose our jobs” threads are not based in reality)