alt Hacker NewsWhere do you draw the line between pattern matching and reasoning about world models?
A lot of intelligence is just pattern matching and being quick about it.
Where do you draw the line between pattern matching and reasoning about world models?
A lot of intelligence is just pattern matching and being quick about it.
The line is: building an internal world model requires interfacing with the world, not a model of it, and subsequent failing (including death and survivorship over generations) and adaptation. Plus pattern matching.
Current AI only does one of those (pattern matching, not evolution), and the prospects of simulating evolution is kind of bleak, given I don’t think we can simulate a full living cell yet from scratch? Building a world model requires life (or something that has undergone a similar evolutionary survivorship path), not something that mimics life.