Why such long definitions? Like I wrote in the survey, if you can predict Chinese text then you understand Chinese. A data compressor can do this too, but who cares if it "understands"? I care about how humans learn language and how to model it in my algorithms.
On Fri, Sep 10, 2021, 11:19 PM <[email protected]> wrote: > @Matt, just treat his question with the answer you believe in, for example > whether he asked me how GPT works, or my AI works, or how a human brain > works, or what job he should get, or what is the coolest toy to buy at > Walmart, I will ALWAYS answer him back with this: "my AGI plans", which is > what I've talked about, built, written about, etc all this time, it's all > that's on my mind and it answers every question no matter which word is > used I know what he is asking for. Notice my take on understanding talks > about atoms, rocks, what Life is, how brains solve problems, etc? I > understood what he wanted and so I gave an answer. And yes, the word > specifically, "understanding", is, while just prediction, it does have some > meaning, and it does not have much more meaning. > > Getting into the meat of "understanding", one might say you have some > things on your plate, beans, peas, bread, in groups, and know which relate > and by how much, and which should be the last to eat and first to eat, and > how much this plate to look at costed, and how many other plates exists. > And how a bean can transform into a bread. Though all of this is > prediction/ patterns, it more exactly can be separated into specific > function like exponential function, related words, RL, multi-agents, > multi-modal, body data collection, etc. So there's no way around patterns, > it's all you can leverage, but we can kinda use the word understanding to > look at things in a different light, a bit, yes. > > Asking if you understand may mean do you recognize that apple, or why the > goal should be AGI and not golfing and doing nails at a building? Do you > understand why to have teammates? Do you understand how related what words > are to this word/ apple? So understand may just mean do you know what is > the truth/ probable, pattern prediction. > *Artificial General Intelligence List <https://agi.topicbox.com/latest>* > / AGI / see discussions <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi> + > participants <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/members> + > delivery options <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription> > Permalink > <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T2ee04a3eb9a964b5-M3ef847f0b4e0eba9d27bc3d9> > ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T2ee04a3eb9a964b5-Me586101350d608e5c542151e Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
