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by shadowofneptune 1438 days ago
Things we have that current AI models do not:

Intent: We can have a goal which directs our thinking. This changes what we come up with much more flexibly than experience, even if experience is often needed for good results.

Temperment: We can be angry, tired, excited, relaxed, etc. while thinking. This isn't always good, but it is a way we differ.

Self-awareness: A very difficult term to define, but we can (hopefully) take a step back and discard our current thought if we realize we are falling into one of our usual bad patterns of thinking.

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Intent and self-awareness do come from experience.

The goals we want to achieve are tied to what has been going on throughout our lives thus far. We don't invent our own values out of a vacuum, we tend to adopt them from other people, and rank them depending on how our nervous system works.

Self-awareness is the ability to reason about the process of reasoning, plus, in your example, a recollection of past examples of incorrect reasoning that disrupted the process of achieving our goals.

So basically current models need a memory and the ability to change their own weights in response to new data to even start approximating humans, but that looks like a doable task, in principle.