Venkatesh Rao: Camera not an Engine aka intelligence is a function of big data plus very small code; modern 'AI' versus Good Old Fashioned AI aka 'GOFAI' Will we look back on this like we do Prolog and the Japanese 5th generation AI project?

Discovered Dec 9, 2023 00:37 A Camera, Not an Engine - by Venkatesh Rao <– “Modern AI” versus “Good old fashioned AI” and other discoveries! Whoah big data as in terabytes of data plus a super tiny bit of code is enough? Will we look back on this with bemusement/contempt/yet another folly like the Japanese 5th Generation AI project? My guess is YES but check back in 2033 to see how wrong I am :-) ?!? –> QUOTE: Once you see intelligence as something embodied by particular pile of data rather than a particular kind of processing, a very powerful sort of decentering of anthropocentric conceits happens; a Copernican consciousness shift gets triggered. You are no more than the sum of data you’ve experienced. A big memory with a small shell script aside. And once you get over the trauma of that realization, you realize something even bigger: any pile of data that has some coherence in its source can be turned into an intelligence that you can relate to, broadening the possibilities of your own existence.

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