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BenjaminJamesBush t1_j8c12it wrote

Reply to comment by bballerkt7 in [R] [N] Toolformer: Language Models Can Teach Themselves to Use Tools - paper by Meta AI Research by radi-cho

Technically this has always been true.

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EducationalCicada t1_j8d5y9z wrote

Not if it's actually impossible.

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BashsIash t1_j8djkk4 wrote

Can it be impossible? I'd assume it can't be impossible, otherwise we couldn't be intelligent in the first place.

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cd_1999 t1_j8fmlej wrote

Have you heard of Searle's Chinese Room?

Some people (sorry I can't give you references off the top of my head) argue there's something special about the biological nervous system, so the material substrate is not irrelevant. (Sure you could reverse engineer the whole biological system, but that would probably take much longer).

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pyepyepie t1_j8dvci2 wrote

I would have told you my opinion if I would know what is the definition of AGI xD

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urbanfoh t1_j8elywk wrote

Isn't it almost certainly possible due to the universal approximation theorem?

Assuming consciousness is a function of external variables a large enough network with access to these variables should be able to approximate consciousness.

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