I was going to use “Artificial Intelligence” in the title here but realized after thinking about it that the idea is really more specific than that. I came up with the idea here while thinking more about the problem I raised in an earlier post about a serious obstacle to creating an AI. As I … Continue reading How to Build an Artificial Human
At the end of May, OpenAI published a paper on GPT-3, a language model which is a successor to their previous version, GPT-2. While quite impressive, the reaction from many people interested in artificial intelligence has been seriously exaggerated. Sam Altman, OpenAI’s CEO, has said as much himself: The GPT-3 hype is way too much. … Continue reading Some Remarks on GPT-N
I started considering the implications of predictive processing for orthogonality here. I recently promised to post something new on this topic. This is that post. I will do this in four parts. First, I will suggest a way in which Nick Bostrom’s principle will likely be literally true, at least approximately. Second, I will suggest … Continue reading More on Orthogonality
The considerations in the previous posts on predictive processing will turn out to have various consequences, but here I will consider some of their implications for artificial intelligence. In the second of the linked posts, we discussed how a mind that is originally simply attempting to predict outcomes, discovers that it has some control over … Continue reading Embodiment and Orthogonality
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