Remember, if the theories were correct and complete, then they could be turned into simulations able to do all the things that the real human cortex can do[5]—vision, language, motor control, reasoning, inventing new scientific paradigms from scratch, founding and running billion-dollar companies, and so on.
So here is a very different kind of learning algorithm waiting to be discovered
There may be important differences in the details, but I’ve been surprised by how similar the behavior is between LLMs and humans. That surprise is in spite of me having suspected for decades that artificial neural nets would play an important role in AI.
It seems far-fetched that a new paradigm is needed. Saying that current LLMs can’t build billion-dollar companies seems a lot like saying that 5-year-old Elon Musk couldn’t build a billion-dollar company. Musk didn’t seem to need a paradigm shift to get from the abilities of a 5-year-old to those of a CEO. Accumulation of knowledge seems like the key factor.
But thanks for providing an argument for foom that is clear enough that I can be pretty sure why I disagree.
There may be important differences in the details, but I’ve been surprised by how similar the behavior is between LLMs and humans. That surprise is in spite of me having suspected for decades that artificial neural nets would play an important role in AI.
It seems far-fetched that a new paradigm is needed. Saying that current LLMs can’t build billion-dollar companies seems a lot like saying that 5-year-old Elon Musk couldn’t build a billion-dollar company. Musk didn’t seem to need a paradigm shift to get from the abilities of a 5-year-old to those of a CEO. Accumulation of knowledge seems like the key factor.
But thanks for providing an argument for foom that is clear enough that I can be pretty sure why I disagree.