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It's a feedback loop. Experimental results suggest new theories, which suggest new experiments to test those theories.
by anonymous_sorry 3y ago
It's a feedback loop. Experimental results suggest new theories, which suggest new experiments to test those theories.
- johndunne 3y agoWell put. I'd add that theories can produce predictions, and if the predictions can be proved experimentally, all the better for the theory.
- anonymous_sorry 3y agoOr perhaps even stronger - theories _should_ produce predictions.
- mrguyorama 3y agoAny theory that cannot make a prediction isn't a theory but rather a data compression method.
- visarga 3y agoThat's what I am thinking when commenters compare LLMs with humans. Humans got the experimental loop going through the real world, pure LLMs are brains in vats. They need experimental confirmation to become truly creative. But on the other hand are the commenters who think AGI to ASI is going to take hours. When is there time to experiment anything? Even ASI needs real world confirmation to do research.
- mgfist 3y agoThe claim is that an AGI can instruct humans to do the experimentation (knowingly or not).
- WitCanStain 3y agoAGI to ASI might take hours if all that's needed is more compute. Such an intelligence might exponentially spread across the internet. Though I don't think it's the most likely scenario.