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I learned arithmetic laws from a textbook and practice problems. I didn't need a teacher gesticulating or any fancy multimodal stuff. It's symbolic manipulation
by civilized 4y ago
I learned arithmetic laws from a textbook and practice problems. I didn't need a teacher gesticulating or any fancy multimodal stuff. It's symbolic manipulation. What is the machine missing that I was given?
There's no post shifting. The research community has been setting itself realistically attainable benchmarks. Now that the research community has made a lot of progress against its benchmarks, we have hype, claims of general intelligence. Which attracts people like me, who compare the hype to actual performance. And as I said elsewhere, the performance of GPT on the questions I posed is only comparable to a human with a severe traumatic brain injury.
- famouswaffles 4y agoI don't care what you did. All due respect, you are one person. I care about what can observed by people in general. Dunno what to tell you other than textbook and practice problems is far from the solution you think it is for a big chunk of the population.
- civilized 4y agoWe have a machine that is dedicated to symbolic manipulation (prediction of new symbols based on past ones). It seems reasonable to compare it to a person that is good at symbolic manipulation. Why would we compare the machine to average people who mostly don't think that way? Why would training a neural network architecture that lives and breathes symbols somehow yield an entity with intelligence like that of an average human? Most humans learn primarily from completely different sources.