Re: Better quantum woo for me & your from Nature

[John Clark]

On Sat, Aug 26, 2023 at 8:17 PM Brent Meeker  wrote:

* > These ideas of the universe as computation are OK.  The equations of QM
> are reversible and their realization can certainly be seen as computation.
> But then it is assumed that the computation is discrete/digital, which is
> not at all the same as quantized. QM is built on a continuum and no one has
> found a plausible way of making it discrete, though many have tried.*
>

I don't think the universe is a computer, but it may be a quantum computer.


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> Brent
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> On 8/25/2023 4:57 PM, 'spudboy...@aol.com' via Everything List wrote:
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> https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02646-x
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> The universe as a quantum computer.
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>
>

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Re: Chat_GPT4 scores in the 1% of a creativity score test v 24 undergraduates

[John Clark]

On Sun, Aug 27, 2023 at 7:49 PM 'spudboy...@aol.com' via Everything List <
everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote:

>
https://fortune.com/2023/08/25/a-i-creativity-test-score-humans/
>

Thanks for posting this Spud. Interesting article, although I'm sure some
people will claim that the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking must be
broken because AIs can now do so well on it, just as some foolish people
already say the Turing Test must be broken because computers can now pass
it so easily. But if a test tells you something you don't want to hear that
doesn't necessarily mean the test is broken. But I think this does tell you
something that is undeniably true, it tells you that the Singularity is
much nearer than anyone, including me, would've expected one year ago. But
that's exactly what you'd expect to happen in the run up to the Singularity
because the unexpected is what a singularity is all about.

It's especially relevant because:

*"All of the results were evaluated by trained reviewers at Scholastic
Testing Service, a private testing company that provides scoring for the
TTCT. They didn’t know in advance that some of the tests they’d be scoring
had been completed by AI.  **Since Scholastic Testing Service is a private
company, it does not share its prompts with the public. This ensured that
GPT-4 would not have been able to scrape the internet for past prompts and
their responses."*

And yet:

*"GPT-4 scored in the top 1% of test-takers for the originality of its
ideas. From our research, we believe this marks one of the first examples
of AI meeting or exceeding the human ability for original thinking."*

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