[api]

We use tons and tons of pharmaceuticals whose mechanism of action is poorly understood at best or in a few cases not at all.

We are even able to predict whether other compounds might work without knowing why just based on structural similarity.

It’s ideal to know the full mechanism and it obviously aids engineering but there’s no reason you have to wait for that to use something. People used fire for millennia before oxidation reduction reactions were understood.

[dinkumthinkum]

All these types of comments are taking about using the results oh physical phenomena without fully understanding them. This is not the same thing as building human-like intelligence. We are using a Turing machine and we are bound by the limits of Turing machines. Human intelligence is nothing like that or no extraordinary evidence to that effect has been presented. Now, if you create a new computational model that is not equivalent to a Turing machine then maybe you will be on the road to something like but that’s not really where things are at.

[timid_oshima]

In this case, it’s not so much the mechanisms of pharma we wouldn’t know, but what it is we’re even trying to cure - not having a definition of the disease or it’s symptoms and yet trying to engineer a cure would be pretty insane.

[api]

We have a very clear objective for a lot of this AI stuff. For the rest like the Stable Diffusion stuff it’s play.

[timid_oshima]

Where could I find a good definition of intelligence? At least the intelligence aimed for when we talk about general ai?

[JieJie]

In response to your questions, ChatGPT says, "Intelligence is the ability to process information, think abstractly, and learn from experiences. In the context of artificial intelligence (AI), intelligence typically refers to the ability of a machine or system to perform tasks that typically require human-like thinking, such as learning, problem solving, and decision making. There is no one specific definition of intelligence that is universally accepted, and different researchers and practitioners may have slightly different interpretations of what intelligence means in the context of AI."

Seems a bit circular.

"What's a good definition of intelligence?" "Human intelligence." "What's human intelligence?" "What we want AI intelligence to be like."

[timid_oshima]

We must improve this thing so it can finally tell us definitively what we’re building :)