You were not my professor but I (more or less) remember virtually all of these questions in some form of another. The set of training data for basic economics across the web (nevermind all the “helper/tutor/cheater” sites) is breathtaking, widely distributed, and essentially syndicated. I’m not surprised at all. Yet, this is not intellig…
You were not my professor but I (more or less) remember virtually all of these questions in some form of another. The set of training data for basic economics across the web (nevermind all the “helper/tutor/cheater” sites) is breathtaking, widely distributed, and essentially syndicated. I’m not surprised at all. Yet, this is not intelligence - this is distribution of intellegence (or otherwise). That said, the culmination of the worlds syndicated data will lead to increasing reliance (business models) on “good-enough” answers to many (most?) regular requirements across a very broad range of industries. People worry about the Red Herring known as AGI and, the spend time worrying about “alignment” as if it’s even an applicable word/concept other than theoretical modles that left the station long ago. Alignment without understanding the power of markets is an academic exercise. Don’t worry about alignment, worry about markets. Don’t worry about AGI with “good enough” narrow AI is already here. We have arrived. Where we are going is a fun but useless exercise.
> Yet, this is not intelligence - this is distribution of intellegence (or otherwise)
I think the interesting question that we'll be discovering answer to in the next few years is how much current human "intelligence" actually is really some form of regurgitating patterns and applying them to semi-novel conditions. I suspect that encompasses a large part of what we think of as intelligence. Given a goal, identify a set of known techniques that chart a path toward that goal. It leaves out creativity - except that much creativity can also basically be simulated and recombinations of existing content and patterns. It moves the goal post of intelligence to "novel insights and highly creative solutions"
We love modles. Some people work diligently to establish, but mostly, to extend models. We are a model people. Models become tokens. That’s ultimately who we are. In this sense, the language modles seem so natural. Just imperfect. The amazing thing is the clarity of the moment: we can all agree that the language models are imperfect. That agreement wont last too long, regardless how imperfect they will always be - that is - unless we (as in some universities, religions, etc) begin to believe the modles are truth itself.
You were not my professor but I (more or less) remember virtually all of these questions in some form of another. The set of training data for basic economics across the web (nevermind all the “helper/tutor/cheater” sites) is breathtaking, widely distributed, and essentially syndicated. I’m not surprised at all. Yet, this is not intelligence - this is distribution of intellegence (or otherwise). That said, the culmination of the worlds syndicated data will lead to increasing reliance (business models) on “good-enough” answers to many (most?) regular requirements across a very broad range of industries. People worry about the Red Herring known as AGI and, the spend time worrying about “alignment” as if it’s even an applicable word/concept other than theoretical modles that left the station long ago. Alignment without understanding the power of markets is an academic exercise. Don’t worry about alignment, worry about markets. Don’t worry about AGI with “good enough” narrow AI is already here. We have arrived. Where we are going is a fun but useless exercise.
> Yet, this is not intelligence - this is distribution of intellegence (or otherwise)
I think the interesting question that we'll be discovering answer to in the next few years is how much current human "intelligence" actually is really some form of regurgitating patterns and applying them to semi-novel conditions. I suspect that encompasses a large part of what we think of as intelligence. Given a goal, identify a set of known techniques that chart a path toward that goal. It leaves out creativity - except that much creativity can also basically be simulated and recombinations of existing content and patterns. It moves the goal post of intelligence to "novel insights and highly creative solutions"
We love modles. Some people work diligently to establish, but mostly, to extend models. We are a model people. Models become tokens. That’s ultimately who we are. In this sense, the language modles seem so natural. Just imperfect. The amazing thing is the clarity of the moment: we can all agree that the language models are imperfect. That agreement wont last too long, regardless how imperfect they will always be - that is - unless we (as in some universities, religions, etc) begin to believe the modles are truth itself.