Comment by max_
2 years ago
Well it depends on what you mean by flight.
If you mean something projecting itself into the air, then yes. Rockets fly, Kites fly, bullets fly, planes too fly.
But if by flight you mean replicating what birds do to get into the sky & come down. Rockets, Kites, bullets & planes don't do that.
Bees don't fly like birds.
Is a bee "mimicking" flight too ? Does that make any sense ? Why is the bird privileged here ?
Bats don't fly like either bees or birds. all these damn mimics running around.
> Bats don't fly like either bees or birds. all these damn mimics running around.
Yes, penguins don't swim like sardines either and snakes don't "walk" like apes.
> Why is the bird privileged here ?
There is no privilege, I was just using it as an example to illustrate that what human beings do is different from what LLMs do, even though they are all called "intelligence".
Great. And the point is..who cares what humans do ? We’re not the arbiter of intelligence anymore than birds are the arbiter of flight.
Nobody is trying to build a digital human here so, “they’re not doing what humans do” is about as meaningless as it gets.
I mean sure, you could cook up whatever definition of intelligence you like, make it so that humans are the only things that pass just because. Then, what's the point? It's not a useful definition.
That’s one point but really there’s more. If you say “mimicking intelligence” is a real meaningful difference, then it should be testable. “There’s a difference here. You can’t see it in the results but trust me bro, it’s there” is really not an argument.
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