Past Performance is Not Indicative of Future Results (2020)

Re:Past Performance is Not Indicative of Future Results (2020) by coding123 on Saturday July 31, 2021 @12:17PM (#28019434)

That's how I felt too. Most of the article is trying to pull us with an emotional attachment (mostly to racist things a computer will do if tasked to do important things). While that criticism is welcome, it's not specifically meaningful towards an argument against AGI. The only part that was seemed to be that statistical inference is not a path to AGI which is somehow backed up by the emotional stuff.

What deep learning seems to step into more and more is time-based statistical inference.

AGI is not:

seeing that a girl has a frown on their face.

seeing that a girl has a frown, because someone said "you look fat"

seeing that a girl has a frown because her boyfriend said you look fat

seeing that Maya has generally been upset with her boyfriend who also most recently told her she is fat.

But keep going and going and going and we might get somewhere. Do we have the computer power to keep going? I don't know.

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Re:Past Performance is Not Indicative of Future Results (2020) by salawat on Saturday July 31, 2021 @02:18PM (#28020442)

AGI is that capability to orchestrate layering of topical filters and feature detections in order to create an actionable perception. Note that it isn't anything to do with the implementations of said filters and detectors, but with the ability to artistically arrange them to satisfy a goal, and very possibly, must be coupled with the capacity to synthesize new ones.

That executive and arranging function is the unknown. From whence cometh that characteristic of Dasein? That preponderance of concern with the act of being as Being?

It's a tough nut to crack, even in philosophical circles. To think that we're going to articially create it by any means other than accident or luck is hubris of the highest order.

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