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by Silamoth 31 days ago
If that’s really the case, then I’d say 2015 you needed to do more reading and thinking about AGI and the nature of intelligence and consciousness. The Chinese Room thought experiment is a good starting point for thinking deeper about what AGI is.

But really, I have trouble grasping how anyone can really think database searching is intelligence. For starters, I’d say the capacity to learn on the fly with relatively poor input data is a necessary condition for intelligence, and you can’t get that with database search.

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Explain to me how 'learning on the fly' is different than iterative self-prompting.

Maybe me today would say you need to do some more research and thinking on how LLMs work?

Like the Turing test, the Chinese Room says more about humans than it does about machines.