We're Not Platonists, We've Just Learned the Bitter Lesson

Re:We're Not Platonists, We've Just Learned the Bitter Lesson by abecedarius on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @04:14PM (#36868679)

I said "fairly open-ended" and didn't limit the question to a mid-2023 LLM.

The point I'm aiming at is that an increasing ability to solve an open-ended range of problems affects the choices we have to make, no matter whether you object to calling it "intelligence".

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Re:We're Not Platonists, We've Just Learned the Bitter Lesson by RandomLensman on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @04:22PM (#36868800)

Does the hire have to wine&dine to sell something? More seriously, people very very rarely hire pure abstraction (I never have seen that).

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Re:We're Not Platonists, We've Just Learned the Bitter Lesson by abecedarius on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @04:35PM (#36869015)

Yeah, I agree, and that's one problem with focusing on what "intelligence" means: it kind of connotes, as you say, abstract or academic problems over practical shrewdness. (It doesn't have to have this restriction but people sure seem to take it that way a lot.)

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