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AI has never been more than a derivative of human thought. I am confident it will never eclipse or overtake it. Your portrayal is too simplistic. There is a lot

AI has never been more than a derivative of human thought. I am confident it will never eclipse or overtake it. Your portrayal is too simplistic. There is a lot about humans that LLMs and the like can emulate, but the last N percent (pick a small number like 5) will never be solved. It just doesn't have the spark.

madaxe_again 4y ago
You’re saying that we are magical? Some kind of non-physical process that is touched by… what? The divine? God? Get real.
- triyambakam 4y ago
  Heh, you should "get real" and try proving to me you exist.
  - madaxe_again 4y ago
    I do not exist, statistically speaking, and I do not claim to be anything more than an automaton. Consciousness is a comforting illusion, a reified concept. Were I to be replaced with a language model trained on the same dataset as has been presented to me, no external observer would note any difference.
    - triyambakam 4y ago
      That is quite a low opinion of yourself. You are mistaking the rather unremarkable intellect with the self. You will find you are an infinite intelligence, once you look. It's very hard to look. It's unlikely you will look--not for a very, very long time. Not in this body, not in the next body, not in the next thousand bodies. But eventually you will.
      - madaxe_again 4y ago
        Gotcha, so you are resorting to religion. Hate to break it to you, but that’s just an outcome of your training data - it’s a corruption, a virus, which co-opts groups of models into agglomerative groups and thereby self-perpetuates.
        triyambakam 4y ago
        Your training data is overfitting the input of my comment and classifying it as religion. I have only said, go in and in and in and in and you will eventually find the real source of your life, and it won't be your limited mind. You have not yet been given enough training data, enough lifetimes, to understand. Eventually you will.

madaxe_again 4y ago

You’re saying that we are magical? Some kind of non-physical process that is touched by… what? The divine? God? Get real.

triyambakam 4y ago
Heh, you should "get real" and try proving to me you exist.
- madaxe_again 4y ago
  I do not exist, statistically speaking, and I do not claim to be anything more than an automaton. Consciousness is a comforting illusion, a reified concept. Were I to be replaced with a language model trained on the same dataset as has been presented to me, no external observer would note any difference.
  - triyambakam 4y ago
    That is quite a low opinion of yourself. You are mistaking the rather unremarkable intellect with the self. You will find you are an infinite intelligence, once you look. It's very hard to look. It's unlikely you will look--not for a very, very long time. Not in this body, not in the next body, not in the next thousand bodies. But eventually you will.
    - madaxe_again 4y ago
      Gotcha, so you are resorting to religion. Hate to break it to you, but that’s just an outcome of your training data - it’s a corruption, a virus, which co-opts groups of models into agglomerative groups and thereby self-perpetuates.
      - triyambakam 4y ago
        Your training data is overfitting the input of my comment and classifying it as religion. I have only said, go in and in and in and in and you will eventually find the real source of your life, and it won't be your limited mind. You have not yet been given enough training data, enough lifetimes, to understand. Eventually you will.