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  • You can think of the brain as a set of modules, but sensors and the ability to adhere to a predefined grammar aren't what define AGI if you ask me. We're missing the most important module. AGI requires cognition, the ability to acquire knowledge and understanding. Such an ability would make larger language models completely redundant as it could just learn langue or even come up with one all on its own, like kids in isolation for example.

    What I was trying to point out is that "neural networks" don't actually learn in the way we do, using the world "learn" is a bit misleading, because it implies cognition. A neural network in the computer science sense is just a bunch of random operations in sequence. In goes a number, out goes a number. We then collect a bunch of input output pairs, the dataset, and semi randomly adjust these operations until they happen to somewhat match this collection. The reasoning is done by the humans assembling the input output pairs. That step is implicitly skipped for the AI. It doesn't know why they belong together and it isn't allowed to reason about why, because the second it spits out something else, that is an error and this whole process breaks. That's why LLMs hallucinate with perfect confidence and why they'll never gain cognition, because the second you remove the human assembling the dataset, you're quite literally left with nothing but semi random numbers, and that's why they degrade so fast when learning from themselves.

    This technology is very impressive and quite useful, and demonstrates how powerful of a tool language alone is, but it doesn't get us any closer to AGI.

  • Nope, people are quite resilient. As long as it's not a literal new born, the chance of survival isn't THAT low. Once you get past 4 years and up, a human can manage quite well.

    Also dying because no one takes care of you and you fail to aquire food and dying of a stroke/seizure are 2 very different things.

  • The 5 year old baby LLM can't learn shit and lacks the ability to understand new information. You're assuming that we and LLMs "learn" in the same way. Our brains can reason and remember information, detect new patterns and build on them. An LLM is quite literally incapable of learning a brand new pattern, let alone reason and build on it. Until we have an AI that can accept new information without being tolled what is and isn't important to remember and how to work with that information, we're not even a single step closer to AGI. Just because LLMs are impressive, doesn't mean they posses any cognition. The only way AIs "learn" is by countless people constantly telling it what is and isn't important or even correct. The second you remove that part, it stops working and turns to shit real quick. More "training" time isn't going to solve the fact that without human input and human defined limits, it can't do a single thing. AI cannot learn form it self without human input either, there are countless studies that show how it degrades, and it degrades quickly, like literally just one generation down the line is absolute trash.

  • I download my music and order it by Artists>Album>Song, basically without exception. Occasionally annoying when a song has multiple authors, because people don't always write the metadata the same way and it fucks with my music player, but that's besides the point.

    When I make playlist, I just take a whole album, filter out a few songs if need be and shove it into a given playlist, sometimes I can do that with an entire artist, but it's not always that easy.

    Another issue with my approach is the odd single song from a random artist that's really good, but everything else they ever made makes me fall asleep, that's a really annoying one... Might start making my own fake albums.

  • I was gonna say I really enjoy tea, but then realized that my fruit tea with plenty of sugar probably doesn't fit the description xD

    Yea, bitterness it a weird taste, I don't mind a hint of it, that can be interesting, but straight up bitter drinks are yuk!

  • Language models are literally incapable of reasoning beyond what is present in the dataset or the prompt. Try giving it a known riddle and change it so it becomes trivial, for example "With a boat, how can a man and a goat get across the river?", despite it being a one step solution, it'll still try to shove in the original answer and often enough not even solve it. Best part, if you then ask it to explain its reasoning (not tell it what it did wrong, that's new information you provide, ask it why it did what it did), it'll completely shit it self hallucinating more bullshit for the bullshit solution. There's no evidence at all they have any cognitive capacity.

    I even managed to break it once through normal conversation, something happened in my life that was unique enough for the dataset and thus was incomprehensible to the AI. It just wasn't able to follow the events, no matter how many times I explained.

  • Aye, I'd compare it to pineapple pizza, in the sense that many very vocal people love to hate on it, but its inclusion in every god damn restaurant speaks volumes of its actual popularity.

    Once on a trip with my classmates I ordered it and they all gave me shit of it. Well too bad I knew that everyone who happened to be present actually liked it, so I threw that right back at em! Nobody was saying shit after. People just learn that shitting on something is the social norm.

  • 22 here, the only device in my apparent rn featuring a CD or DVD drive is an old ass iMac my gf intends to gut and put a mac mini inside just for fun, aka, likely disabling the DVD drive :(

    We also probably have an external DVD reader in some drawer...

    Considering we have like 5+ laptops and 2 desktops here, I'd say that says it all.

    I predominantly download my music from bandcamp and my gf mainly uses Spotify.

  • My company is very lenient with how I spend my time (as long as I'm somewhat in the office and get my work done, which I god danm do!) and it's absolutely amazing. Often before a big release I run out of work and since no one is tracking it, I can just work on optimizing/cleaning our code or fixing some UX issue. I mean what are people gonna complain about? Me not doing the work I already completed? If they ever start tracking us I'm jumping ship, our new team pushes out the best code this company ever had and if that's not enough, then nothing could be.

    I'm also confused about this whole "constant meetings" thing. At work I have an analyst that does the vast majority of client communication for me. From how people talk about work, it makes me think "analysts" aren't a thing in other companies. My gf (also a developer) didn't even know what an "analyst" could be. Like seriously? I love that guy! Life would suck soo much without him. The only meetings I attend are technical or educational in nature. And our monthly team leader meetings, just because he wants to make sure everything is ok with us.

  • Idk, at least a century or two, was thinking more... I mean it isn't that difficult of a recipe. But I guess the same could be said about ketchup. Only around 200 years old, despite being technically possible way sooner.