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jnwatson an hour ago

The cure for HER2- metastatic breast cancer is a simple matter of ...

Please predict the next word.

Intelligence is implicit in language understanding. The best possible next-word-predictor is omniscient.

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Avicebron an hour ago | parent | next [-]

> The best possible next-word-predictor is omniscient.

Omniscient for the set of "meaning" embedded into it's training set. It's not broadly omniscient, big difference.

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tptacek 8 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Right, but what's the limit of what you can deduce computationally from truly vast training sets? How much structure is there in the subtext of what's written down? It looks like there's rather a lot.

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FeepingCreature 13 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

Sure, but same for any intelligence. The "training set" is just "the environment of adaptation".

	▲	Avicebron 8 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Careful, you're dangerously close to an argument for the necessity of embodiment /s

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layer8 43 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

What does omniscience have to do with reasoning? If you know everything, you don’t have to reason. But these next-word-predictors aren’t omniscient.

	▲	jadermcs 5 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Omniscience doesn’t imply that you have to store all the information, but that you can retrieve/reconstruct it, and reasoning allows it.

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sobellian an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

The cure for HER2- metastatic breast cancer is a simple matter of [intensive well-funded research]

That wasn't too hard, maybe I'm superintelligent?