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Bread is defined as anything I think bread is, and the same goes for any other word. To hold another position would be in some way dishonest.
That’s not a definition :) And, by the way, a definition is not defined as whatever one thinks a definition is.
Compression is a component of general intelligence. A few years ago I was very sceptical of machine learning ever leading to general intelligence. I've since changed my mind. There are a lot of parallels to this work and the concept of "embeddings" in machine learning. Intelligence requires the ability to generalize. A prerequisite for generalization is the ability to take something high-dimensional and reduce it to…
The human brain also forgets, something that may be a feature instead of a bug. Also, beyond compression––brains are simulation machines: imagining new scenarios. Curios to understand if ML provides anything analogous to simulation that isn't rote interpolation.
I don’t know the exact term but I think of deep fake generators with an accompanying deep fake recognizer working in tandem bettering each other constantly?
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Maybe their definition of definition is your definition of bread?
Give us this day our daily definition
It all works this way (though a certain female family member would disagree, claiming to remember conversations word-for-word years later). But my memory works this way. A summary "party at so-and-so's house, weather was nice, overall vibe was ___". The rest is context. You know what the house/backyard is like, you know the general feel of that time of year, you know the crowd that usually comes, you can easily synth…
I think some memories are closer to lossless compressions than lossy which I wonder if it's more of a scale where memories can slide between the two modes with varying degrees of fidelity. Like there are memories that I know I shouldn't remember from childhood that I can remember clearly and others I barely remember what year it happened. So I have to wonder if some of this seeming lossless-ness is more fractal-like…
Sorry I don’t have any sources, I’m just a casual reader in this space.
However if I mentally retrace my steps within a short timespan, it seems that I recall details that I would generally not remember. For instance if I leave my house and think, “Did I brush my teeth?”, I can usually confirm/disconfirm by picturing something very specific like where I placed the toothbrush afterwards.
I think this is why it's hard sometimes to argue in support of something you believe, even if you're right. At one point, all of the relevant facts and figures were loaded into your working memory, and with that information you arrived at a conclusion. Your brain, however, no longer needs those facts and figures; you've gotten what you needed from them, and they can be kicked out of working memory. What you store the…
One way to make this clear to yourself is to observe how much more difficult it is to "define bread" than it is to answer "is this bread?"
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A nice definition of intelligence I've heard is exactly the ability to form models of the world with predictive power. And a model is essentially a compression of real-world data. Physical laws are a great example of this.
How do you tell if something you're trying to determine as intelligent or not has formed a model?
I'd be cautious over-generalizing that result, because I think it's also been found that different people do this in different ways, and it may be one of the things that distinguishes speed-readers from other readers.
I know when I read text, my brain sounds it out. It's gotten very fast at it, so I can read pretty quickly, but that sounding-out engages auditory parts of my brain that make it hard to read and listen to someone at the same time. Other people I've met simply do not have that limitation, and their description of the qualia of how they read doesn't mention a sounding-out step at all.
I think this is why it's hard sometimes to argue in support of something you believe, even if you're right. At one point, all of the relevant facts and figures were loaded into your working memory, and with that information you arrived at a conclusion. Your brain, however, no longer needs those facts and figures; you've gotten what you needed from them, and they can be kicked out of working memory. What you store the…
One way to make this clear to yourself is to observe how much more difficult it is to "define bread" than it is to answer "is this bread?"