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RobleyTheron t1_iw1dikj wrote

Reply to comment by havenyahon in The CEO of OpenAI had dropped hints that GPT-4, due in a few months, is such an upgrade from GPT-3 that it may seem to have passed The Turing Test by lughnasadh

Thanks. Curios on your thoughts of whole brain emulation. I feel like that will get us closer to human level AI (some day), as opposed to trying to program it from scratch.

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havenyahon t1_iw1e19i wrote

Honestly, I think that's probably just as likely to fail, because our best and most cutting edge science is beginning to show that, as far as minds are concerned, it's not just neurons that matter, it's the whole body that's involved in cognition. The research on embodied cognition in my view casts doubt on whether brain emulation is going to cut it. That's no reason not to work on it, though! No doubt we'll find out lots useful along the way. But understanding the role of the body in cognition I personally believe will open up new ways of modelling and instantiating AI. We've only just begun that journey, though.

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RobleyTheron t1_iw1fix7 wrote

Interesting, I don't know much about embodied cognition. Any good papers or books you'd reccomend?

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havenyahon t1_iw1hfpy wrote

Laurence Shapiro is a good one to start with. Can recommend this and he also edited a Routledge handbook. The Stanford Encyclopedia entry he wrote is also a good overview of some of the philosophical context, but doesn't go too heavily into the empirical work. For an overview of some of the experimental work, this is worth a look.

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RobleyTheron t1_iw2qfqz wrote

Excellent. Thanks for the reccomendation, I'll check it out.

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