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I always find it fascinating how the use of words (spin) can take something, like a pretty little box of electrical impulses, manipulated with a few lines of co
by reify 1y ago
I always find it fascinating how the use of words (spin) can take something, like a pretty little box of electrical impulses, manipulated with a few lines of code, into something amazing called a brain.
Given enough time I could make this little box into the next god, with my extremely intellectual choice of words, even though there is no evidence that the little box can even think, feel or experience life as we know it.
Thinking, in the human sense, now there is a real thing.
- 10111two 1y agoThe skepticism from your end is very understandable. But human brain is made of approximately 86 billion of those pretty little boxes (neurons) of electrical impulses, all governed by same fundamental principles. whether, you have 100 pretty boxes, trillion boxes, the rules remain the same. The real magic is to understand those rules and simulate them using lines of code. Thinking, feeling or experiencing are higher cognitive functions resulting from the interactions of those pretty little boxes. And obviously to get to these cognitive functions, you need more boxes. That's totally fair. But even at small scale, if those rules are correct, you will start seeing early signs which will mature into cognitive functions you are referencing. Think of a development of newborn into an adult. So if you get the rules right, it is completely justified calling it an artificial brain. A toy car is essentially also a car, both governed by same laws of motion. The logic and definition of the use of words(spin) is formally defined in the report. I hope this clarifies some of the skepticism.