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We don’t actually know what “thinking” is, though, so I’m not sure it’s possible to say “this model can’t think”.
by jamespwilliams 4y ago
We don’t actually know what “thinking” is, though, so I’m not sure it’s possible to say “this model can’t think”.
- andsoitis 4y ago> We don’t actually know what “thinking” is How about: thinking is to make sense of the world (in general) and decide how to respond to it.
- Noneofya 4y agoNow you’ve just rephrased thinking. What is „making sense of the world“?
- dr_dshiv 4y agoAi definitely senses and definitely makes decisions. It does not feel. But it understands concepts. Just like people don’t understand everything—and you can test them to see what they understand—AI understanding can also be assessed with benchmarks. If we don’t base AI understanding on benchmarks, then we don’t really have a grounding.
- schrodinger 4y agoDo we “really feel?” Or is that just our subjective interpretation of our goals? (At the risk of falling into a no true Scotsman argument)
- andsoitis 4y ago> Ai definitely senses and definitely makes decisions. To sense is not the same as to make sense.
- somenameforme 4y agoIt seems one of the core components of human-level thinking is the ability move beyond just a recomposition of what you already know. Not long ago the epitome of expressible human knowledge was *emotive grunting noise.* Somehow we went from that to the greatest works of art, putting a man on the moon, and delving into the secrets of the atom. And we did it all exceptionally quickly once you consider how little time was spent dedicated to advancement and our countless behaviors that tend to imperil, if not reverse, advances.