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Markus H-S's avatar

Amazing connection of dots. This is what philosophy looks like in the 21. century

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JCL's avatar

I feel like there's an interesting tie-in with "The Bitter Lesson" here ( http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html ). My amateur summary is that many early AI researchers tried to model AIs after human domain knowledge of different areas. Ultimately applying raw computation at massive scale produced better AIs, even though the approach was a very "blunt-force" .

I feel like there are parallels between the "engine" and domain-expert approach, and the camera and computation-centric approaches. The computation-centric approach doesn't try to anthropomorphize information, and as a result reflects our information back to us in all of it's weirdness and complexity. And it reflects exactly the kind of weirdness that no team of engineers and experts could or would ever try to embed in an AI. To use your framing, we "discovered" something with this approach, which I doubt would have happened with the domain-expert approach.

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