• Communist@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    Except calculators aren’t models capable of understanding language that appear to become more and more capable as they grow. It’s nothing like that.

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      1 year ago

      Isn’t it, though? Take two cells and rub them together, do it a bit more, boom here we are on Lemmy.

      We wouldn’t refer to our consciousness as an emergent property of algae.

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        1 year ago

        Yes, but we would refer to our consciousness as an emergent property of our brain.

        And we’re trying to build artificial brains.

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          Sorry, I guess what I was trying to say is that it doesn’t take much to get from “calculator” to a system that is Turing complete, and from there we’re just a few sleeps away from LLMs, and from there…