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BashsIash t1_j8djkk4 wrote

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

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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