[FRIAM] it's boring

[Marcus Daniels]

The same approach is used to identify novel drugs or the folding of proteins.  Kind of surprising that a simple algorithm resembling Wheel of Fortune would be such a productive basis for learning.    The related work from diffusion models / denoising is also remarkable in its simplicity.

https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/improving-diffusion-models-as-an-alternative-to-gans-part-2/ 

The continuous simple or high-order prediction from sensory data seems entirely plausible to me as a description of what is called consciousness.   
Folks fond of abstractions substitute signal generators in place of sensory data.  

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"None of this has anything to do with artificial consciousness, of course. “I don’t anthropomorphize,” Chowdhery said bluntly. “We are simply predicting language.” Artificial consciousness is a remote dream that remains firmly entrenched in science fiction, because we have no idea what human consciousness is; there is no functioning falsifiable thesis of consciousness, just a bunch of vague notions. And if there is no way to test for consciousness, there is no way to program it. You can ask an algorithm to do only what you tell it to do. All that we can come up with to compare machines with humans are little games, such as Turing’s imitation game, that ultimately prove nothing."


What amazes me is that few take the logical step of suggesting that there is no such thing as consciousness. We're all "simply predicting language." The only difference between an animal and a language predicting chatbot is that we *also* "simply predict" actions in 4D spacetime. Any disconnect between the serial prediction of tokens from the (not-so-serial) prediction of all actions is that dimension reduction.


On 6/20/22 08:15, Marcus Daniels wrote:
> https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/06/google-palm-ai-artificial-consciousness/661329/ <https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/06/google-palm-ai-artificial-consciousness/661329/>


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