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by mfav 3341 days ago
As the other commenter noted, "letting a bunch of molecules sit around" was precisely where we got intelligence from in the first place.

So it is possible that we reach AI just by randomly permuting connections and weights. Of course it's more likely we intelligently set (or "evolve") these connections and weights, but this allows us to set an upper bound on computation/time needed.
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gls2ro 3341 days ago
> As the other commenter noted, "letting a bunch of molecules sit around" was precisely where we got intelligence from in the first place.

I don't think this was the case. Yes there is evolution but it is not random. Actually most of the molecules sitting around did not evolve to intelligence. In case our evolution we had natural selection. In case of AI we have artificial selection (selection made by humans) and even if we consider ourselves smart enough to do this we cannot prove that we are able to make it happen (choosing the correct AIs/algorithms to survive) until it happens. Maybe I cannot express this clear enough but the advantage natural evolution has over artificial evolution is the huge number of "experiments" - meaning it had time enough to do a lot of small changes until something worked.

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gnaritas 3341 days ago
> Maybe I cannot express this clear enough but the advantage natural evolution has over artificial evolution is the huge number of "experiments" - meaning it had time enough to do a lot of small changes until something worked.

I think you have that backwards; natural evolution is absurdly slow because it takes a very long time to cycle through generations of animals whereas genetic programming on a computer to evolve algorithms can happen billions of times a day because computers are much faster at cycling through possibilities.

> meaning it had time enough to do a lot of small changes until something worked.

Computers can do it faster.

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gls2ro 3340 days ago
Yes, now you got me thinking more about my concept of how I see the difference between evolution by natural selection and evolution by artificial selection.

And I agree with you that AI can be much faster.

I still think the artificial selection can be influence by us - humans - so we might add flows in the sistem from the beginning. Of course AI can learn to identify them maybe. But maybe not. Like in the case when looking from inside a system one cannot see how the system really is so it cannot fix it.

Of course what I say are just some hypothesis, nothing proven and I think they cannot yet be falsifiable.

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rtx 3341 days ago
The probality is pretty low.
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