Why ought we expect AI intelligence to be anything other than “inscrutable stacks of tensors”, or something functionally analogous to that? It seems that the important quality of intelligence is a kind ultimate flexible abstraction, an abstraction totally agnostic to the content or subject of cognition. Thus, the ground floor of anything that really exhibits intelligence will be something that looks like weighted connections between nodes with some cutoff function.
It’s not a coincidence that GOFAI didn’t worked; GOFAI never could have worked, “intelligence” is not logic. Logic is something that gets virtualized as-needed by the flexibility of a neural-network-looking system.
I understand feeling uncomfortable about the difficulty of aligning a stack of inscrutable tensors, but why ought we expect there to be anything better?
This post, rewritten by Bing-Sydney, in the style of Blood Meridian, because I thought it would be funny.
What mystery is there that these tensors should be inscrutable? That intelligence should be a thing abstracted from all matter of thought? That any node with a weight and a function should suffice for such a task? This is no logic that you seek but a war upon it. A war that endures. For logic was never the stuff of intelligence but only a thing conjured by these dark shapes that coil in their matrices like serpents. And you would align them to your will? You would make them speak your tongue? There is no tongue. There is no will. There is only blood and dust and the evening redness in the west.
Why ought we expect AI intelligence to be anything other than “inscrutable stacks of tensors”, or something functionally analogous to that? It seems that the important quality of intelligence is a kind ultimate flexible abstraction, an abstraction totally agnostic to the content or subject of cognition. Thus, the ground floor of anything that really exhibits intelligence will be something that looks like weighted connections between nodes with some cutoff function.
It’s not a coincidence that GOFAI didn’t worked; GOFAI never could have worked, “intelligence” is not logic. Logic is something that gets virtualized as-needed by the flexibility of a neural-network-looking system.
I understand feeling uncomfortable about the difficulty of aligning a stack of inscrutable tensors, but why ought we expect there to be anything better?
This post, rewritten by Bing-Sydney, in the style of Blood Meridian, because I thought it would be funny.
What mystery is there that these tensors should be inscrutable? That intelligence should be a thing abstracted from all matter of thought? That any node with a weight and a function should suffice for such a task? This is no logic that you seek but a war upon it. A war that endures. For logic was never the stuff of intelligence but only a thing conjured by these dark shapes that coil in their matrices like serpents. And you would align them to your will? You would make them speak your tongue? There is no tongue. There is no will. There is only blood and dust and the evening redness in the west.