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I think it is an interesting idea and it is sort of akin to Freud's ego, superego, subconscious, etc. It is a conceptualization, an abstraction, probably a lit
by bhouston 4y ago
I think it is an interesting idea and it is sort of akin to Freud's ego, superego, subconscious, etc. It is a conceptualization, an abstraction, probably a little arbitrary, that does not map well to physical constructs.
To view it from the perspective of deep learning neural networks, one would view the society of mind as a proposed super structure on top of the various deep learning neutral networks. There is this already, like the reinforcement learning structure for Chat GPT, or the multi-focus attentional systems used for code generation.
As we built out a full AGI that can interact with the whole, it is likely we will have specialized systems which mimic a society of mind, but given that Minsky's ideas are pretty rough and sort of vague, I am not sure his writings provide the best guidance, but probably can inspire a bit of work.
- edgyquant 4y agoThink of humans as artificial neurons. Language is how we back propagate etc