lucash.dev on Nostr: Compression, prediction, classification, are all just facets of the same underlying ...

Compression, prediction, classification, are all just facets of the same underlying problem.

And none of that is anything even remotely related to what we usually mean by “intelligence” or what we used to mean by that at least.

Intelligence is about understanding the real world. Not manipulating abstract symbols separated from their essential meaning.

Even if true AI is possible — it would require far more than parsing billions of texts to achieve.

The problem is very similar to the Oracle problem in Blockchain.

If your AI simply assumes certain training set to represent reality — then the actual intelligence is entirely in the selection of that training set.

To be precise we should rename AI as “Augmented Intelligence”.

And the intelligence that is being augmented isn’t the user’s — but that of the people who train and control the algorithm— while the user’s intelligence — their ability to comprehend reality — is in fact being diminished by outsourcing it to external, centrally controlled oracles.