Comment by alchemist1e9
4 years ago
You can do the setup as a ipython session instead and this also works well and a small counter example for you using that. Is it will generate what appears to be random numbers using np.random but when you try to sum them or do any math with them, it gives results but they are numerically wrong. It has the ultimate memory and can stylize it in every imaginable direction but it can’t do floating point math yet, so while it seems like it is “running” it isn’t. I have and odd hunch it will be like that eventually with consciousness, it will imitated it well but it never will be.
The line between fake and real computation is blurry though. These models are state machines which are Turing complete (if I remember a past paper correctly), and other models show capabilities of generalization also in the mathematical space. It's a long (infinite) way from running Linux, but acting as a decent (buggy) python interpreter for short programs seems possible.
Yes I agree and interestingly if you stick to basic algorithms with integers it can compute better. It’s almost like it doesn’t have true floating point capabilities but has somehow built itself integer operations correctly.