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Sorry but no, intelligence is not a fundamental property of matter. Most arrangements of matter don’t have it. (Also, anyone who studies animal cognition long ago realized that intelligence is not uniquely human; that’s not the news flash it seems to be.)
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Q: "After doing AI for so long, what have you learned about humans?" Sam Altman: "I grew up implicitly thinking that intelligence was this, like really special human thing and kind of somewhat magical. And I now think that it's sort of a fundamental property of matter..." It's… Show more
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I think you're misinterpreting him. He certainly could have said it better, but based on other interviews of him I've seen, I'm pretty certain what he meant is that 'the potential for intelligence is a fundamental property of matter'
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then it’s just like saying we can assemble tinkertoys into a computer, which is a very old observation.
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Is the capacity to create explicit explanatory knowledge unique, on Earth, to humans? Explicit: written in precise language. Explanatory: provides an account of what exists and how it behaves Knowledge: useful information that solves a problem and gets copied.
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I totally disagree with his view, but he is a PR genius that manipulates he audiences for his business interests. If it's a property of matter it can be owned and protected by IP, which fits to his closed model approach. He tries to control the narrative - he did exactly the same… Show more
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That's an unfair characterization of what he's attempting to say. We can abstract out concepts that lead us to the conclusion that evolutionary processes do lead to intelligence. It's a feature of our universe made possible by the physics.
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