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It’s not just a safe bet but almost guaranteed. Humans combine their internal language models with physical intuition and experimentation from the moment they a
by akiselev 4y ago
It’s not just a safe bet but almost guaranteed. Humans combine their internal language models with physical intuition and experimentation from the moment they are born. There is zero chance that an AI can understand the physical world without access to it [1]. Until it has that access, it’s no more than a glorified context specific Markov chain generator
[1] Henceforth called Kiselev’s conjecture, a corollary of Moravec’s paradox: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moravec's_paradox https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moravec's_paradox
- zone411 4y agoIt's possible for models to learn a lot about everyday physics from videos.
- akiselev 4y agoNo, it isn't. Not yet.
- zone411 4y agoYou said "There is zero chance that an AI can understand the physical world without access to it," which is wrong. It is possible. Using videos is an active research area, e.g. https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper/2021/hash/07845cd9aefa6cde3f8926d25138a3a2-Abstract.html https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper/2021/hash/07845cd9aefa6... or https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.01314 https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.01314
- akiselev 4y agoThank you for the links, it's fascinating! Fact is, without a feedback loop that can run physical experiments like infants do from the moment they're born, I highly doubt they will develop a useful intuition using just video. Hence the conjecture