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It seems the problem with this "debate" is that intelligence is very clearly not a scalar value - where you can look at a number line and put a dot where cats a
by ks2048 2y ago
It seems the problem with this "debate" is that intelligence is very clearly not a scalar value - where you can look at a number line and put a dot where cats are, where humans are, where AIs are, etc.
So, people just talk past each other, with everyone using a different method on how a complex trait like "intelligence" is to be collapsed down to a scalar for easy comparison.
- echelon 2y agoWe don't understand intelligence. But we do understand vision and hearing. We have for over 50 years. We've implemented them classically and described them with physics. Game engines, graphics pipelines, synthesizers, codecs, compression, digital image processing, ... the field is vast and productive. Our mastery over signals is why I'm so bullish on diffusion and AI for images, video, and audio regardless with whatever happens with LLMs. And if this tech cycle only improves our audio-visual experience and makes games and film more accessible, it'll still be revolutionary and a step function improvement over what came before.
- deepfriedchokes 2y agoJudging fish by their ability to climb trees.
- OKRainbowKid 2y agoThat's a good analogy for when people use the task of counting "r"s in "strawberry" to make a point that LLMs are useless/dumb.
- yunohn 2y agoI mean, OpenAI made this the defining purpose of their o1 “reasoning” model, and teased it for weeks with a strawberry across Twitter.