[cosmicradiance]

On the current state of AI - do you believe it has "intelligence" or is the underlying system a "prediction machine"?

What signs do you see that make you believe that the next level (biological intelligence) is on the horizon?

[zaptrem]

We are but prediction machines https://www.psy.ox.ac.uk/news/the-brain-is-a-prediction-mach...

[cosmicradiance]

Wrong. As per the article - a part of our brain is a prediction machine. A human body is more than the sum of its parts.

[jcgrillo]

> A human body is more than the sum of its parts.

What does this mean, precisely? How is a human body (or plant, or insect, or reptile/bird/mammal) body ever "more than" it's constituent parts? Wouldn't that violate a conservation law?

[ruszki]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergence

[ChaitanyaSai]

We do predictions, but much more important, we are able to create new states. Prediction the classical view assigns probabilities to existing states. What's unique to us and a lot of other biological intelligence is the ability to create new states when needed. This is not implicit in the narrow view of prediction machines

[bamboozled]

Is this a good thing ? Because apparently we’re supposed to be building god. So it sounds like we’re on the wrong track, am I wrong ?

If we’ve just copied our feeble abilities, is that supposed to be exciting?

Is god like intelligent just a prediction machine too ?

[giardini]

Well, if we intend "building god" perhaps we're merely making a copy of a copy of God:

The Sixth Day

Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness, to rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, and over all the earth itself and every creature that crawls upon it.” So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. ”…

Genesis 1:26-27 Berean Standard Bible