Congratulations, you've invented philosophy.

meindnoch 7 days ago | parent | next [-]

We need to reinvent philosophy. With JSON this time.

This is an obnoxious response. Of course I recognize that philosophy is the solution to this. What I am pointing out is that philosophy has not as of yet resolved these relatively new problems. The idea that non-human intelligences might exist is of course an old one, but that is different from having an actual (potentially) existing one to reckon with.

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deadbabe 7 days ago | parent | next [-]

Non-human intelligences have always existed in the form of animals.

Animals do not have spoken language the way humans do, so their thoughts aren’t really composed of sentences. Yet, they have intelligence and can reason about their world.

How could we build an AGI that doesn’t use language to think at all? We have no fucking clue and won’t for a while because everyone is chasing the mirage created by LLMs. AI winter will come and we’ll sit around waiting for the next big innovation. Probably some universal GOAP with deeply recurrent neural nets.

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gdbsjjdn 7 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> Writings on metacognition date back at least as far as two works by the Greek philosopher Aristotle (384–322 BC): On the Soul and the Parva Naturalia

We built a box that spits out natural language and tricks humans into believing it's conscious. The box itself actually isn't that interesting, but the human side of the equation is.

	▲	mdp2021 6 days ago \| parent [-]
		> the human side of the equation is You have only proven the urgency of Intelligence, the need to produce it in inflationary amounts.

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adastra22 7 days ago | parent | prev [-]

These are not new problems though.