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My 3 favorite non-fiction books are: * Mindset by Carol S. Dweck * Innovating: A Doer's Manifesto for Starting from a Hunch, Prototyping Problems, Scaling Up, and Learning to Be Pr…

One week ago, Geoffrey Hinton posted on X about the Loch Ness Monster. I thought that there would be a follow up with more explanation. I am unclear on his intent. Was this an actu…

Each time I have been laid off, the opportunity afterwards has been significantly better. Perhaps, I have just been lucky. After my first lay off, I got a job at Sun Microsystems i…

I think that we need a better definition of creativity. I suspect that ChatGPT is merely derivative (like a person who reviews all the ideas out there and attempt to pick the best …

If you are asking me. Of course, I've spent many hours on it. I have not seen anything that I would consider original. I am very impressed by the quality of responses and how well …

As a non-expert, ChatGPT appears to me to be a compression of the internet with interesting mash ups. Am I wrong? Creativity to me is about going outside a given search space, abou…

Thanks! I appreciate the explanation. I think that you put your finger on the major assumption of the argument.

I'm not sure why you disagree with the Chinese Room argument. I would be interested. I agree that Searle was solely a philosopher who did not take an engineering viewpoint. Searle'…

I agree. The model is where the intelligence is which is the compressed intelligence latent in the training data. I am arguing similar to John Searle that the processing is not int…

Agreed. LLMs process information on their own. I thought you were saying it was "obvious" that the processing demonstrated intelligence. My point was the level of intelligence show…

Let us disagree on what is "obvious". Given an input and an output, you believe that the complexity of the output proves that intelligence takes place. I agree that ChatGPT is more…

I suspect that there is something else going on than intelligence which will become obvious over the next few years. There was a horse, "Clever Hans" who appeared to have the abili…

The best summer intern that I ever hired did not have any programming experience. He was a Berkeley student who had recently decided to change his major but hadn't started taking a…

Fuzzy Logic is a logic based on an imprecise value for true and false. It seems to me that from a perspective of imprecise concepts and conditions, LLMs allow the same feature for …

If anyone is interested, I posted details on my approach here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5455261.0

Thanks for the tip. Bitcoin Talk looks very interesting. I'll take a look at the different boards!

I'm not too active on technology forums. I think that Hacker News and Stack Exchange are my only places where I am somewhat active. As a result, it is quite challenging to write up…

To be clear, I was refering to this statement: > What I am trying to say is, it doesn't matter if the subject is actually conscious. All that matter is we (I), feel/think that it i…

Not really clear what you are unclear about. My main point is that human beings have sentience and can reason about cobtext in terms of how an action affects others. Computers are …

I apologize for not being more clear. I find it very challenging to distinguish between details about LLP and "consciousness". My key point is that "human consciousness" is very di…

Sentience and knowledge is what I am talking about. Free will is what you do with that knowledge.

I am baffled when smart people say something like this. Without consciousness, without a stake in the game, the behavior is pure statistics. Statistics is limited by probabilities …