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Well, to state the obvious, a model trained on much of the internet by a giant cluster of silicon GPUs is fundamentally different than a biological brain traine

Well, to state the obvious, a model trained on much of the internet by a giant cluster of silicon GPUs is fundamentally different than a biological brain trained by a billion years of evolution. I'm not sure why anyone should expect them to be similar? There may be some surface-level similarities, but the behavior of each is clearly going to diverge wildly in many/most situations. I wouldn't really say an AI beat a human chess player in 1967--I'd say a computer beat a human chess player. In the same way that computers have for a long time been able to beat humans at finding the square roots of large numbers. Is that "intelligence"? I grant you though that a lot of this comes down to semantics.

randomdata 3y ago
> but the behavior of each is clearly going to diverge wildly in many/most situations. I expect something akin to "Why the fuck did he do that?" is a statement every human has uttered at some point. In other words, human behaviour can be a complete mystery to the outside observer. Your suggestion that an AI model will diverge in a way that a human would not is reasonable, but as outside observers are we able to tell the difference between an AI model going off the rails and a human going off the rails? I suspect not. At least not when AI is at a sufficiently advanced level. > Is that "intelligence"? No. But it is what is labelled artificial intelligence – AI for short. Maybe someday we'll be able to create machines that are intelligent, but that's still on the level of complete science fiction. Our best work thus far is just computers running particular algorithms that appear to exhibit some limit qualities that are similar to qualities that we consider to be a product of intelligence in humans. Hence the artificial moniker.

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Well, to state the obvious, a model trained on much of the internet by a giant cluster of silicon GPUs is fundamentally different than a biological brain traine

by danenania 3y ago

randomdata 3y ago
> but the behavior of each is clearly going to diverge wildly in many/most situations. I expect something akin to "Why the fuck did he do that?" is a statement every human has uttered at some point. In other words, human behaviour can be a complete mystery to the outside observer. Your suggestion that an AI model will diverge in a way that a human would not is reasonable, but as outside observers are we able to tell the difference between an AI model going off the rails and a human going off the rails? I suspect not. At least not when AI is at a sufficiently advanced level. > Is that "intelligence"? No. But it is what is labelled artificial intelligence – AI for short. Maybe someday we'll be able to create machines that are intelligent, but that's still on the level of complete science fiction. Our best work thus far is just computers running particular algorithms that appear to exhibit some limit qualities that are similar to qualities that we consider to be a product of intelligence in humans. Hence the artificial moniker.