“due to high cost of living” would be shorter than the current “cuz..." and convey the same information. Once you can't quote the full original title, you are rewriting to compress while preserving meaning, just dropping words and using misspellings that are shorter and phonetic approximations may not be the best way to do that.
Cheating in online games is big business and is accessible to more than the technically inclined through purchase. There's no reason to think the same won't happen for tests that have actual monetary value.
This argument is, and always has been, utter bullshit.
All humans have the capacity to genuinely learn, create, and think, regardless of how their output appears to you in some subset of interactions with them.
"Some humans sometimes have trouble with critical thinking, or just regurgitate previously-memorized facts" is not in any way equivalent to "LLMs, by their fundamental nature, only have the capacity to produce various recombinations of their training data."
LLMs solve for the next word. Human intelligence solves for survival with many types of input, visual, audio etc. You can't create an AGI if you don't solve for the problems that created human GI.
Digital data is all 1s and 0s, whether it encodes words, sounds, or pictures. Why do you think transformers only work for predicting words, when they're already successfully being used for other applications as well?
I think much like with a basic Turing machine definition compute is possible on a variety of substrates that some kind of intelligence can be created with a whole class of implementations, transformers included. Indeed the video and image input of LLMs is one of the most exiting use cases.
They’re trained to optimize guessing the next word. What they solve for to get this good at predicting the next word is an open question with answers hidden in plain sight in the weight blob.
Why not? For a hypothetical example - if we assume that simulating a human is AGI, and we have some hypothetical space-age magic tech bruteforce the problem by simulating every neuron and connection in the brain... why would being "embodied" factor into this?
Because I think intelligence formed in human beings is connected directly to embodiment and not some kind of abstraction that can be simulated. My guess is that the best AI developments will ultimately come from mimicking the processes of how humans learn from their environment, and not from merely simulating (or trying to simulate, as I don’t really buy the positivist approach) human brains.
Absolutely. The physical world is the input that creates the feedback loop for learning.
I would propose a definition of AGI. "A model capable of effecting the physical world through speech or physical action in a manner indistinguishable from a human."
The wiimotes are just bluetooth and the tracking is 5 LEDs. I've used candles instead of the sensor bar before. You can buy a "dolphin bar" for $20 and use your wiimotes on the PC. It works great. I dumped my wii games and haven't touched the console in years.
Yeah I've used the candle trick with a Wii before too, but that doesn't mean it isn't a much larger barrier for entry than Switch games working most of the time with just a standard controller (and therefore keyboard mapping). As for controllers, I don't think I even had bluetooth in a desktop PC until somewhat recently (~3 years ago) when I paid a little extra for a motherboard with WiFi 6 and BT built-in.
