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by eduren 3257 days ago
>Shouldn't imagination and planning be observed spontaneously as emergent properties of a sufficiently complex neural network?

Not necessarily. I think it comes down to what you mean by "sufficiently complex". If we took a classic feedforward Multi-Layer Perceptron and gave it massive amounts of good data, a long time to train, and a nearly unbounded network size, I'm not sure it would ever develop architecture within itself to plan or develop a robust internal model.

Our neurology took millions of years/generations to get where it is today though natural selection. We might want to tip the scales a bit by engineering the broad architectural pieces and letting emergent behavior fill the gaps.

Although it would be fun to try producing human level intelligence by seeding a physics simulation of primordial soup and letting it run for millions of "years", I don't think that's feasible for most researchers.

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> Although it would be fun to try producing human level intelligence by seeding a physics simulation of primordial soup and letting it run for millions of "years", I don't think that's feasible for most researchers.

And what would be the seed for random number generator?

"Let there be light"