What's alien about arithmetic? People invented it. Same w/ computers. These are all human inventions. There is nothing alien about them. Suggesting that people think of human inventions as if they were alien artifacts does not empower or enable anyone to get a better handle on how to properly utilize these software artifacts. The guruism in AI is not helpful & Karpathy is not helping here by adopting imprecise language & spreading it to his followers on social media.
If you don't understand how AI works then you should learn how to put together a simple neural network. There are plenty of tutorials & books that anyone can learn from by investing no more than an hour or two every day or every other day.
It is better to say humans formalized it :) All birds and mammals are capable of arithmetic in the sense of quantitative reasoning. E.g. a rat quickly learning that if they're shown two plates, one with two rocks and one with three rocks, if they pick the plate with five rocks they get a treat. That is to say rats understand addition intuitively, even if they can't write large numbers like humans can.
Too many AI people are completely uninterested in how rats are able to figure stuff like that out. It is not like they are being prompted, they are being manipulated.
That has nothing to do w/ what I wrote. If people stop making computers then the "alien" minds Karpathy & friends keep harping about simply disappear & people end up doing arithmetic manually by hand (which presumably no longer makes it "alien"). AI discourse is incoherent b/c people like Karpathy have a confused ontology & metaphysics & others take whatever they say as gospel.
I didn't notice your comment when I was editing but I don't see how your comment addresses the unedited version either. If you believe in platonic ideals then that still does not make mathematics & arithmetic any more alien than assuming inventive contingency.
This is a great article. It clearly explains what people like Nate Hagens have been saying for some time now. The real economy is about EROI & materials, money & financial activity can not change the amount of fossil fuels available for industrial processes regardless of any clever financial engineering.
They didn't do anything when they could have & should have done something so they're not going to do anything now either. It's all empty political rhetoric.
Not true! No doubt committees will be established, people will be appointed, discussions will take place, and recommendations to assemble a think tank to elaborate on the possibility of maintaining a team of advisors to consult the sub-committee will be submitted.
If you don't understand how AI works then you should learn how to put together a simple neural network. There are plenty of tutorials & books that anyone can learn from by investing no more than an hour or two every day or every other day.
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