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And perhaps even more pertinent - maybe the problem isn't that we don't have the solutions, but that we are trying to put all eggs in one basket. The brain isn
by kromem 3y ago
And perhaps even more pertinent - maybe the problem isn't that we don't have the solutions, but that we are trying to put all eggs in one basket.
The brain isn't a single system, it's several specialized systems cooperating as a whole.
Maybe no single solution gets us to AGI, but layering several of them together gets us much closer than any individual system alone.
The problem here is that the industry is set up more for large resources dedicated competition between models from different companies more than cooperative interoperation, so it may take a while to arrive here.
- abeppu 3y agoThat's an interesting possibility. I think where one stands on this partly depends on how much about the technical approaches to AGI we can learn from the brain. The brain does seem to have a weird mix of specialization and flexible generalization -- e.g. we generally have a bunch of the same specialized areas for various functions -- but also, neuroplasticity seems to show that other areas can often pick up those functions if necessary (the most extreme cases being after something like a hemispherectomy). So we have specialized areas but also at least some of the underlying mechanisms are perhaps relatively general.