I was so hoping the hype were true …

Sorry to disappoint … 🙄😅😅                                                   

So why isn’t AGI around the corner with these artificial brains?

😅 .. Again.. they’re not really artificial brains                          

Neural networks make a lot of fairly simplistic assumptions about the brain being an information processor that just works with ones and zeroes

OK, fair enough, the model is simplistic. But it works! Right?

Yes it does, but we are training artificial neural networks in ways that don’t really match how brains learn, or how children learn

How so? 😞

Apart from the brain having almost a 100 billion (with a b) neurons and the largest simulations barely cracking 10 million (with an m)?

OK, ok, sure. But isn’t this about how they learn?

Yes, but the raw numbers are relevant too. Brains are fast and efficient because they are massively parallel: lots of problem solving all at once all over the place

So the size of the brain has a lot to do with its speed?

Indeed, we don’t really know yet how and where all the computations take place

Aha, so because we don’t really know how human information processing works, we can’t really compare the two  🤓

Not just that, but also what kind of information is relevant to human processing

Meaning? 😕

Well, humans make a lot of assumptions in the background, use lots of rules of thumb, apparently, to simplify their problems

We know what’s it like just live in a complex layered world full of meaning, more or less right from the start

I guess, sure. The world isn’t a jumble of chaos that we interpret, in a sense we generally “just know” what stuff is. Is that it?

Indeed, and it is not at all easy to figure out how to have computers to the same. Simulating the entire world isn’t doable, but picking out what is relevant is also really hard

I think I get it. So “Artificial General Intelligence” has more to do with general background knowledge than with general problem solving?

Yes, it would mean that a robot in the real world would constantly be solving an immense number of problems that we don’t really even notice

It doesn’t know what is relevant and irrelevant, because …

… the world isn’t a chessboard! I get it … ♟️♟️♟️

But then again, maybe that’s just what we need: a robot that is born and evolves in our same naturel world. How could it come to understand it otherwise?

🤖🤖 Robots!

I wanted to talk more about robots …

Hey, I love talking about robots! Let’s do that next time       

Thanks for the chat! 😄😄