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How do you replicate something you have no understanding of, like intelligence. The "ai" scam was doomed from the start.
You don't need to fully understand a mechanism to replicate its function. We frequently treat systems as black boxes and focus entirely on the output. Also, consider that nature has zero 'understanding' of intelligence, yet it managed to produce the human brain through blind mutation shaped strictly by selection pressures. Clearly, comprehension is not a prerequisite for creation. We can mimic the process using genetic algorithms and biologically inspired neural networks.
In fact, we often gain understanding through the attempt to replicate. For instance, reverse engineering these structures is exactly how we learned that language isn't the basis of intelligence in the first place. We don't need a perfect theory of mind to build a system that works. All this shows is that LLM approach has limits and it's not going to lead to any sort of general intelligence on its own.
Yeah I agree with you. A better way to make my point would be that I just think trying to replicate something as insanely complex as intelligence will require a much more thorough understanding of how it works. Like nature took billions of years to pull it off and only one species reached a high level of intelligence (from our perspective at least)
The whole thing reeks of “cart before the horse” and always has. It bleeds into all facets of it, right down to it demanding energy outputs we don’t have yet.
The energy and data center stuff is just getting stupider by the day. "Orbital data centers"
literally one of the worst possible places to put a data center lol