Brilliant essay by @DavidDeutschOxf on philosophical deficiency of the discussion of AGI and significance of creativity.https://aeon.co/essays/how-close-are-we-to-creating-artificial-intelligence …
To understand something means to find a mapping from it on something that you already believe you know how to compute. To explain it means to successfully model that mapping.
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Sounds like you're reducing understanding to analogy.
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No! If I understand addition, I have found a mapping to neural circuitry that can compute sums. If I explain addition, I model the nature of that mapping to a more basic computation, such as incrementation. Neither is an analogy.
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So, given a proposed AGI algo, what criteria (without running it) would you use to say it is AGI or not?
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