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Reading this reinforces that a lot of what makes up current "AI" is brute forcing and not actually intelligent or thoughtful. Although I suppose our meat-minds
by leptons 1y ago
Reading this reinforces that a lot of what makes up current "AI" is brute forcing and not actually intelligent or thoughtful. Although I suppose our meat-minds could also be brute-forcing everything throughout our entire lives, and consciousness is like a chat prompt sitting on top of the machinery of the mind. But artificial intelligence will always be just as soulless and unfulfilling as artificial flavors.
- dhampi 1y agoGuessing you’re a physicist based on the name. You don’t think automatically doing RG flow in reverse has beauty to it? There’s a lot of “force” in statistics, but that force relies on pretty deep structures and choices.
- tim333 1y agoAlways is a long time. It may get better.
- theptip 1y agoIntelligence is the manifold that these brute-force algorithms learn. Of course we don’t brute-force this in our lifetime. Evolution encoded the coarse structure of the manifold over billions of years. And then encoded a hyper-compressed meta-learning algorithm into primates across millions of years.
- uecker 1y agoLearning a manifold is not intelligence as it lacks the reasoning part.
- esafak 1y agoLeaning the manifold is understanding. Reasoning, which takes place on the manifold, is applying that understanding.
- uecker 1y agoI am not sure what you definition of "understanding" is that you apply here.
- esafak 1y agoI mean understanding physics and the universe of natural possibilities; what can happen. Then comes why.
- uecker 1y agoFitting a manifold to a bunch of samples does not allow you to understand what can happen in the universe. For example, if you train a regular diffusion model on correct sudokus, it will produce sudokus with errors because it does not understand the rules.
- esafak 1y agoYou raise a good point for the diffusion case, which trains only on positive examples, but generally speaking negative examples will warp the manifold appropriately.
- uecker 1y agoSure, but you show a few correct examples to a human it will quickly pick up the correct rules. And this is understanding.
- Bromeo 1y agoAre you familiar with the "Bitter Lesson" by recent Turing Award winner Rich Sutton? http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html