Neural nets may sacrifice (our) understanding for competence.*
but I haven’t seen an argument that these can’t be run efficiently on normal computer hardware...
The post is from 2013, which might be relevant.
More recently AlphaGo was running on custom hardware, thought that seems like its about parallel versus serial, etc..
Is there an argument I’m missing?
The claim that this is about something deeper that has to be hardware suggests the thesis that:
More competition and variation at the lowest level is needed for autonomy and high level ability.
AGI isn’t here yet, and somehow the most striking differences between humans and the machines we make are in the ways they’re organized.
*The specific dimensions highlighted were:
Comprehension, top down/bottom up, and random versus directed search.
The way this was tied into memes suggests the claim that ’some of the important parts of thinking/minds aren’t things we know how to design, and that overcoming those hurdles will require something new.
Perhaps new ways of thinking about thinking, or ‘building an ‘evolution’, or other blind designer systems’. Perhaps recognizing that good systems require more than one way things work, or are organized.′
Neural nets may sacrifice (our) understanding for competence.*
The post is from 2013, which might be relevant.
More recently AlphaGo was running on custom hardware, thought that seems like its about parallel versus serial, etc..
The claim that this is about something deeper that has to be hardware suggests the thesis that:
More competition and variation at the lowest level is needed for autonomy and high level ability.
AGI isn’t here yet, and somehow the most striking differences between humans and the machines we make are in the ways they’re organized.
*The specific dimensions highlighted were:
Comprehension, top down/bottom up, and random versus directed search.
The way this was tied into memes suggests the claim that ’some of the important parts of thinking/minds aren’t things we know how to design, and that overcoming those hurdles will require something new.
Perhaps new ways of thinking about thinking, or ‘building an ‘evolution’, or other blind designer systems’. Perhaps recognizing that good systems require more than one way things work, or are organized.′