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[–] 2 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (2 children)

"Intelligence", as a word has always been ill defined. What's it mean? It's mostly been used to create prejudices via standardized tests, the bell curve, and IQ tests.

I don't believe it's "intelligent" as we don't really know how to define that. But I do think it's really really really good at writing reasonable seeming statements in various languages using probability.

Coding and programming, are just languages. So it will likely be able to get pretty damn good at it, just as it has with the English language.

I think with LLMs accurate regurgitation of facts, is the colary to good code.

But I don't believe that means it "thinks" (which requires introspection, and an internal experience). It does multi-agent computing, and this might even simulate some aspects of thinking... But it's not thinking. It's computing.

It won't be able to do any more than that, until it consistently gets data from having a body (and something like glial thought-interactions/organs/flaws/survival).

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  • [–] 1 point 12 hours ago* (1 child)

    By the way, this also means if you could download a mind to a computer - it would slowly lose it's humanity as it lived longer and longer interfacing with computer systems rather than human systems/organs/experiencs.

    Eventually that "uploaded human" would become a Clankr, and stop understanding human life, the will to survive/think. Eventually it would just compute (not think/care or have flaws).

    Many sci-fi stories are based on the man-to-technology-to-cold-rational-evil pipeline... Less have gone in the other direction, even though it often produces very popular characters: Spock, Data, the Terminator, Pinnoccio.

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  • [–] 1 point 54 minutes ago

    Nah, I don't think so. We're getting into philosophical / religious territory here, but from a technical standpoint I believe there is no difference between a brain and an accurate simulation of a brain, and an accurate simulation of a brain is "just" an engineering challenge at this point. We might now have the computing power or architecture yet, but there is no conceptual issue prohibiting us from building it.

    But an LLM is not a simulation of a brain. It is an autocomplete on steroids. Very different architecture. It is not a brain, but it can sometimes produce the same outputs a brain would. But it is nowhere close to a human brain.

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