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Emer­gent Be­hav­ior ( Emer­gence )

TagLast edit: 26 Oct 2022 17:07 UTC by niplav

Emergent Behavior or emergence occurs when an entity is observed to have certain properties , that its individual parts do not have on their own. Certain properties or behaviors might come about only when the parts that make up that entity interact as a wider whole , or when the number of parts making up that entity reach a certain minimum threshold.

It is hypothesized that an AI system might display emergent properties simply as a function of scale. This is supported by the fact that various complex systems exist in nature that have displayed such emergent properties due to quantitative differences. Examples include :

This raises concerns that due to the quantitative increases in the size of AI models , we might soon hit an unexpected threshold and see unexpected differences in qualitiative behaviors and capabilites. This provides motivations to study complex systems with emergent phenomena to be able to draw inferences for when , and what types of capabilites might emerge.

References

Cri­sis of Faith case study: be­yond re­duc­tion­ism?

MalcolmOcean8 Jun 2023 6:11 UTC
6 points
9 comments19 min readLW link

The Fu­til­ity of Emergence

Eliezer Yudkowsky26 Aug 2007 22:10 UTC
104 points
142 comments3 min readLW link

A Bird’s Eye View of the ML Field [Prag­matic AI Safety #2]

9 May 2022 17:18 UTC
163 points
8 comments35 min readLW link

A Case for Con­scious Sig­nifi­cance rather than Free Will.

James Stephen Brown25 Oct 2024 23:20 UTC
12 points
2 comments6 min readLW link

In­tro­duc­tion to Prag­matic AI Safety [Prag­matic AI Safety #1]

9 May 2022 17:06 UTC
80 points
3 comments6 min readLW link

Are Emer­gent Abil­ities of Large Lan­guage Models a Mirage? [linkpost]

Matthew Barnett2 May 2023 21:01 UTC
53 points
19 comments1 min readLW link
(arxiv.org)

Emer­gent Abil­ities of Large Lan­guage Models [Linkpost]

aogara10 Aug 2022 18:02 UTC
25 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(arxiv.org)

Towards a New On­tol­ogy of Intelligence

Tara4 Jun 2024 8:19 UTC
1 point
0 comments3 min readLW link

Tak­ing Away the Guns First: The Fun­da­men­tal Flaw in AI Development

s-ice26 Nov 2024 22:11 UTC
1 point
0 comments17 min readLW link

Im­pli­ca­tions—How Con­scious Sig­nifi­cance Could In­form Our lives

James Stephen Brown26 Nov 2024 17:42 UTC
7 points
0 comments13 min readLW link

Com­plex Be­hav­ior from Sim­ple (Sub)Agents

moridinamael10 May 2019 21:44 UTC
113 points
13 comments9 min readLW link1 review

Emer­gence and Con­trol: An ex­am­i­na­tion of our abil­ity to gov­ern the be­hav­ior of in­tel­li­gent systems

meanderingmoose5 Jun 2020 17:10 UTC
1 point
0 comments6 min readLW link

The Real­ity of Emer­gence

DragonGod4 Oct 2017 8:11 UTC
0 points
11 comments5 min readLW link

LINK: Google re­search chief: ‘Emer­gent ar­tifi­cial in­tel­li­gence? Hog­wash!’

Shmi17 May 2013 19:45 UTC
6 points
45 comments1 min readLW link

Matt Botv­inick on the spon­ta­neous emer­gence of learn­ing algorithms

Adam Scholl12 Aug 2020 7:47 UTC
154 points
87 comments5 min readLW link

Sel­ling Nonapples

Eliezer Yudkowsky13 Nov 2008 20:10 UTC
76 points
78 comments7 min readLW link

Linkpost: Are Emer­gent Abil­ities in Large Lan­guage Models just In-Con­text Learn­ing?

Erich_Grunewald8 Oct 2023 12:14 UTC
12 points
7 comments2 min readLW link
(arxiv.org)

The Dark Side of Cog­ni­tion Hypothesis

Cameron Berg3 Oct 2021 20:10 UTC
19 points
1 comment16 min readLW link

A physi­cist’s ap­proach to Ori­gins of Life

pchvykov28 Jun 2022 15:23 UTC
12 points
6 comments16 min readLW link

Bing find­ing ways to by­pass Microsoft’s filters with­out be­ing asked. Is it re­pro­ducible?

Christopher King20 Feb 2023 15:11 UTC
27 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

Perform Tractable Re­search While Avoid­ing Ca­pa­bil­ities Ex­ter­nal­ities [Prag­matic AI Safety #4]

30 May 2022 20:25 UTC
51 points
3 comments25 min readLW link

Can Kauff­man’s NK Boolean net­works make hu­mans swarm?

Yori-928 May 2024 2:09 UTC
6 points
2 comments20 min readLW link

Emer­gent Author­ship: Creativity à la Communing

gswonk14 Sep 2024 19:02 UTC
1 point
0 comments3 min readLW link

Emer­gence Is a Univer­sal Non-Zero-Sum Phenomenon.

James Stephen Brown14 May 2024 8:06 UTC
6 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(nonzerosum.games)
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