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Re:John Carmack's new AGI company, Keen Technologies, has ra... by Jack000 on Friday August 19, 2022 @07:28PM (#32527348)
Biology is not necessarily the only path to intelligence. Modern ML has diverged very far from biomimetic approaches at this point.

The brain does have more "parameters" than ML models but this applies just as much to humans as it does to animals that we don't consider particularly intelligent.

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Re:John Carmack's new AGI company, Keen Technologies, has ra... by jmyeet on Friday August 19, 2022 @07:36PM (#32527417)
> Biology is not necessarily the only path to intelligence.

True.

> Modern ML has diverged very far from biomimetic approaches at this point.

I agree but my take on this is different: it just lays bare how simplistic modern "ML" is. And I put "ML" in quotations because most "ML" is really just statistics.

If you accept the premise that ML is a highly simplified version of the one model of sentience we have that works (and you might disagree with that) then that just puts us even further from AGI. Why? The information/entropy in the system.

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