You get most of your learning from experiences? I sure don’t. I get most of mine from reading, and I expect an AGI even close to human-level will also be able to learn from the logical abstractions of the books it reads. I think what you’re saying would be true if we agreed to not train AI models on text, but only on things like toy physical models. But currently, we’re feeding in tons of data meant to educated humans about the world, like textbooks on every subject and scientific papers, and all of wikipedia, and personal stories from Reddit and… everything we can come up with. If the algorithm has been improved enough to acccurately model the world protrayed in this text data, it will know lots about manipulating humans and predicting long timescales.
Examples of things that are right around me right now that I’ve not learned through reading: door, flask, lamps, tables, chairs, honey, fridge, ….
I’ve definitely learned a lot from reading, though typically even when reading about stuff I’ve learned even more by applying what I’ve read in practice, as words don’t capture all the details.
You get most of your learning from experiences? I sure don’t. I get most of mine from reading, and I expect an AGI even close to human-level will also be able to learn from the logical abstractions of the books it reads. I think what you’re saying would be true if we agreed to not train AI models on text, but only on things like toy physical models. But currently, we’re feeding in tons of data meant to educated humans about the world, like textbooks on every subject and scientific papers, and all of wikipedia, and personal stories from Reddit and… everything we can come up with. If the algorithm has been improved enough to acccurately model the world protrayed in this text data, it will know lots about manipulating humans and predicting long timescales.
Examples of things that are right around me right now that I’ve not learned through reading: door, flask, lamps, tables, chairs, honey, fridge, ….
I’ve definitely learned a lot from reading, though typically even when reading about stuff I’ve learned even more by applying what I’ve read in practice, as words don’t capture all the details.