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bsenftner ◴[] No.44471917[source]
Also, AGI is not just around the corner. We need artificial comprehension for that, and we don't even have a theory how comprehension works. Comprehension is the fusing of separate elements into new functional wholes, dynamically abstracting observations, evaluating them for plausibility, and reconstituting the whole - and all instantaneously, for security purposes, of every sense constantly. We have no technology that approaches that.
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Workaccount2 ◴[] No.44473180[source]
We only have two computational tools to work with - deterministic and random behavior. So whatever comprehension/understanding/original thought/consciousness is, it's some algorithmic combination of deterministic and random inputs/outputs.

I know that sounds broad or obvious, but people seem to easily and unknowingly wander into "Human intelligence is magically transcendent".

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__loam ◴[] No.44475642[source]
We don't understand human intelligence enough to make any comparisons like this
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1. scrubs ◴[] No.44479962[source]
Well yes, but we gotta try something. The fact that agi or human intelligence is a unknown in any engineering sense is also why it thrives in ways so amenable to nonsense. Still, we gotta try.