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IshKebab 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> There is about 150 years of cognitive science experimentation in animals

Yeah that would be relevant if AI were an animal...

As I said, it's clearly intelligent, but a quite different intelligence to that shared by animals.

	▲	aeonik 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I haven't even been convinced it's fundamentally different from biological intelligence. But it's clearly still missing a few ingredients. But we are really close.

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anthonypasq 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> If AI researchers cared about scientific thinking, they would be intensely focused on the brains of bees.

Basically every academic AI researcher in history was doing what you described. The AI industrialists stopped caring 6 years ago once they realized LLMs seem to have been the only thing in 80 years that actually seems to work at any useful level.

There are plenty of pioneering scientists who are either returning to actual AI research (Yann Lecun, Ilya, etc), and plenty who never left (Richard Sutton) who are doing exactly what you are talking about.

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Diogenesian 11 hours ago | parent [-]

> Basically every academic AI researcher in history was doing what you described.

That is not true. Alan Turing did not view things that way, his test would say that a dog has zero intelligence. Neither did any of the MIT Lispers. And neither do Lecun or Sutskever or Sutton! They are all focused on human intelligence. None of them are even slightly concerned about an AI which is intelligent before it learns any language.

> the only thing in 80 years that actually seems to work at any useful level

This isn't true either! Mathematica / Maple / etc are "old-fashioned AI" and they obviously work. The Lisp expert systems were also useful, though less so than an LLM.

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anthonypasq 10 hours ago | parent [-]

> And neither do Lecun or Sutskever or Sutton! They are all focused on human intelligence. None of them are even slightly concerned about an AI which is intelligent before it learns any language.

??? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvibIstOn_E his arguemtn here is clearly built around using some sort of sensory data to build a model of the world like humans (animals) do. also you clearly decline to mention Lecun who has made this point ad-infinitum

> This isn't true either! Mathematica / Maple / etc are "old-fashioned AI" and they obviously work. The Lisp expert systems were also useful, though less so than an LLM.

i personally find it very strange that non-deep learning AI approaches which essentially boiled down to a giant bundle of if statements, or some very simple statistical modeling were called AI in the first place.

	▲	Diogenesian 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		In 50 years it will seem very strange that people insisted Mythos was intelligent.