Ted Chiang on AI: www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2...
I finished "The Brain, In Theory" by @romainbrette.bsky.social
It was an amazing read, and now I'm questioning all my beliefs
Hinton's great philosophical depth here: "The chatbot says "Oh I see, I misunderstood you". So, if it misunderstood [...] what's it doing when it gets it right? It's understanding." QED.
Analogies are scientifically useful: one can transfer knowledge between domains. But what is point of insisting that the brain is a computer, if we need to admit that it is completely different from the kind of computer that we are familiar with? What's the big insight?
Book review 📚 How to breathe life back into brain theory
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How to breathe life back into brain theory www.nature.com/articles/d41...
I'm trying to follow the logic of our AI lords here, but I'm struggling. So we should massively invest in AI, based on the promise that it will automate all jobs. It works: job apocalypse, the economy is crashed; it doesn't work: financial crash, the economy is crashed. Win-win.
𝗦𝗼 𝗺𝗮𝗻𝘆 𝗯𝗼𝗼𝗸𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱
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