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I think it’s reasonable to use the word intelligence, if you define intelligence as something like “a system’s ability to take in information and use that info
by circuit10 4y ago
I think it’s reasonable to use the word intelligence, if you define intelligence as something like “a system’s ability to take in information and use that information rationally to decide what action to take to meet a goal”, which seems like a good definition to me. It might be tempting to define it in a way that only includes what humans do but I don’t think that’s a good general definition
- brookst 4y agoYep. I precision about intelligence versus sentience is keeping the waters muddy.
- JohnFen 4y agoWe (the set of English speakers at large) don't have a universal definition of "intelligence" because we have only a loose idea about what it is. That problem is even worse with "sentience", where we basically don't know what it is beyond the vaguest hint.
- brookst 4y agoWe don’t have perfect definitions for either word, but I’m comfortable with intelligence meaning something like goal seeking or reasoning, and sentience meaning something like self-awareness or identity. The fact that we can’t perfectly define either “blue” or “green” does not mean that blue and green are semantically interchangeable.
- runarberg 4y agoWhat makes a behavior rational? Linear models take in information and use that information to decide what action to take to meet a goal. When you are fitting a best line, I suppose that could be rational, or it isn’t, it depends on the usage. I find it hard to justify calling one thing “intelligent” and the other thing not.
- JohnFen 4y agoThat definition includes all computers. Is that your intent?
- circuit10 4y agoNot really, because computers on their own aren't really agents that optimise their actions towards a goal. But they can definitely be programmed to do that I guess you could argue that following machine code instructions is as much of a goal as predicting the next token though, except it's not quite the same as there's a clear right way to follow the instructions but predicting tokens is more... fuzzy?