On Mon, Jun 24, 2024 at 10:00 AM PGC <multiplecit...@gmail.com> wrote:
> *> And for everybody here assuming the Mechanist ontology, which implies > the Strong AI thesis, i.e. the assertion that a machine can think,* > I don't know about everybody but I certainly have that view because the only alternative is vitalism, the idea that only life, especially human life, has a special secret sauce that is not mechanistic, that is to say does not follow the same laws of physics as non-living things. And that view has been thoroughly discredited since 1859 when Darwin wrote "The Origin Of Species". > *> I am curious as to why any of you would assume that general > intelligence and mind would arise from a narrow AI.* > If a human could converse with you as intelligently as Claude can in such a wide number of unrelated topics you would never call his range of interest narrow, but because Claude's brain is hard and dry and not soft and squishy you do. I'll tell you what let's make a bet, I bet that an AI will win the International Mathematical Olympiad in less than 3 years, perhaps much less. I also bet that in less than 3 years the main political issue in every major country will not be unlawful immigration or crime or even an excess in wokeness, it will be what to do about AI which is taking over jobs at an accelerating rate. What do you bet? John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> bwu > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv3UtLijLq13KX3Q_2mJsxvgayv4pm-8pgv6H_g3S8RdFA%40mail.gmail.com.
