[FRIAM] AI possibilities

[Steve Smith]

> Or ... or ... they counter the conventional wisdom that *humans* 
> generalize their learning or reasoning beyond text. We are the OG bots.

I do really appreciate this duality/tension:   I think you were the 
first to alert me to this a few thousand messages back (before LLMs/GPT 
talk, etc erupted here) though I vaguely remember Marcus making a 
(qualitatively) similar statement as well.  I think his comment was 
about whether human (early childhood in particular) was anything 
different from "emulation".

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> On 4/7/23 09:15, Steve Smith wrote:
>>     These findings counter the conventional wisdom that LLMs are 
>> merely statistical next-word predictors and can’t generalize their 
>> learning or reasoning beyond text.
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