But if the universal failure of nature and man to find non-connectionist forms of general intelligence does not move you
Firstly, AIXI exists, and we agree that it would be very smart if we had the compute to run it.
Secondly I think there is some sort of slight of had here.
ChatGPT isn’t yet fully general. Neither is a 3-sat solver. 3-sat looks somewhat like what you might expect a non-connectionist approach to intelligence to look like. There are a huge range of maths problems that are all theoretically equivalent to 3 sat.
In the infinite limit, both types of intelligence can simulate the other at huge overhead, In practice, they can’t.
Also, non-connectionist forms of intelligence are hard to evolve, because evolution works in small changes.
Firstly, AIXI exists, and we agree that it would be very smart if we had the compute to run it.
Secondly I think there is some sort of slight of had here.
ChatGPT isn’t yet fully general. Neither is a 3-sat solver. 3-sat looks somewhat like what you might expect a non-connectionist approach to intelligence to look like. There are a huge range of maths problems that are all theoretically equivalent to 3 sat.
In the infinite limit, both types of intelligence can simulate the other at huge overhead, In practice, they can’t.
Also, non-connectionist forms of intelligence are hard to evolve, because evolution works in small changes.