I’ve been thinking about how most (maybe all) thought and intelligence are simulation. Whether we’re performing a mathematical calculation, planning our day, or betting on a basketball game, it’s all the same mental exercise of simulating reality. This might mean the ultimate potential of ai is the ability to simulate reality at higher and higher resolutions.
As an aside, it also seems that all scientific knowledge is simulation and maybe even all intellectual endeavors. Any attempt to understand or explain our reality is simulation. The essence of intelligence is reality simulation. Our brains are reality simulators and the ultimate purpose of intelligence is to simulate potential realities.
When people muse about reality being someone’s dream, that might not be terribly far from the true nature of our universe.
I’ve been thinking about how most (maybe all) thought and intelligence are simulation. Whether we’re performing a mathematical calculation, planning our day, or betting on a basketball game, it’s all the same mental exercise of simulating reality. This might mean the ultimate potential of ai is the ability to simulate reality at higher and higher resolutions.
As an aside, it also seems that all scientific knowledge is simulation and maybe even all intellectual endeavors. Any attempt to understand or explain our reality is simulation. The essence of intelligence is reality simulation. Our brains are reality simulators and the ultimate purpose of intelligence is to simulate potential realities.
When people muse about reality being someone’s dream, that might not be terribly far from the true nature of our universe.
That’s model-based RL (with a learned model).