alt Hacker NewsYes, they are. An AI is several hundred trillion ones and zeroes on a disk. It's incapable of doing anything until you intentionally and explicitly start it up and give it a prompt.
A dog is an independent, conscious, living being with free will. A dog will do what it wants whenever it wants because it has the agency and ability to do so. A pile of weights on disk does not.
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trio8453 • yesterday at 9:09 PM
Why are you reducing the AI to ones and zeros and not reducing the dog to cells, water, proteins etc.?
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> It's incapable of doing anything until you intentionally and explicitly start it up and give it a prompt.
Sure, but since January people have gone and made systems where they started 'em up and left 'em running in a loop. Still not a dog, but the behavior gets a wee bit more interesting. Especially since we're looking at what's basically a recursive process. Even really simple recursive processes tend to have interesting dynamics in the chaotic domain. [1] And here -as you point out- we're talking billions of weights.
[1] As an intuition take for example x_next = r * x * (1-x) ; which gives this plot: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logistic_map#/media/File:Logis... ... Further discussion at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logistic_map