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Coderules t1_j9p2tmk wrote

I first stopped reading after just the first sentence. The part "The rise of transformer-based architectures, such as..." is just click-bait.

But I re-opened and continued.

Then at the part where they offer a skewed definition of Intelligence, "First, a few definitions. Intelligence, as defined in this article, is the ability to compress data describing past events, in order to predict future outcomes...". This is not correct. Why not just use some agreed-upon definition? Like "The ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills."

I'm just stopping there. Calling BS.

We have already seen too many articles where people imply AI will bring about loss jobs sending people into panic. Then on the other side we have this type of BS that causes fear and more panic.

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jamesj OP t1_j9p3m4l wrote

>Then at the part where they offer a skewed definition of Intelligence, "First, a few definitions. Intelligence, as defined in this article, is the ability to compress data describing past events, in order to predict future outcomes...". This is not correct. Why not just use some agreed-upon definition? Like "The ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills."
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>I'm just stopping there. Calling BS.

This definition of intelligence comes from Juergen Schmidhuber, who's team was instrumental in the development of LSTMs and advances in deep learning in the 90s.

I recommend reading the paper, it is a very useful view of what the core of intelligence really is. https://arxiv.org/pdf/0812.4360.pdf

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