[eternalban]

GPT-3 is limited, but it has delivered a jolt that demands a general reconsideration of machine vs human intelligence. Has it made you change your mind about anything?

At this point for me, the notion of machine "intelligence" is a more reasonable proposition. However this shift is the result of a reconsideration of the binary proposition of "dumb or intelligent like humans".

First, I propose a possible discriminant for "intelligence" vs "computation" to be the ability of an algorithm to brute force compute a response given the input corpus of the 'AI' under consideration, where the machine has provided a reasonable response.

It also seems reasonable to begin to differentiate 'kinds' of intelligence. On this very planet there are a variety of creatures that exhibit some form of intelligence. And they seem to be distinct kinds. Social insects are arguably intelligent. Crows are discussed frequently on hacker news. Fluffy is not entirely dumb either. But are these all the same 'kind' of intelligence?

Putting cards on the table, at this point it seems eminently possible that we will create some form of mechanical insectoid intelligence. I do not believe insects have any need for 'meaning' - form will do. That distinction also takes the sticky 'what is consciousness?' Q out of the equation.