croto8

croto8 t1_j573xp6 wrote

Your example uses personal experience to create the symbolic representation and subsequent association. Kind of my point.

Edit: to further, pattern recognition could create a similar outcome, through using training data which has this symbolic pattern inherently, but without the personal experience, sense of risk, and context, it’s just gradient descent based on the objective function that was configured to emulate the process.

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croto8 t1_j56jl1g wrote

I think symbolic thinking may be inextricably linked to a sense of self. To give AI what we think of as understanding requires context and the perceiver’s acknowledgement of the symbol in a larger setting, rather than just pattern recognition at scale.

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croto8 t1_j4a61v2 wrote

Path finding algorithms were some of the first research in AI. You’re confusing AI with AGI, and there is correct terminology in the field to differentiate robustness of different models. Source: I actually work in the field.

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