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> "The crazy thing is that people think that a model designed to"

It's even crazier that some people believe that humans "evolved" intelligence just by nature selecting the genes which were best at propagating.

Clearly, human intelligence is the product of a higher being designing it.

/s




I would consider evolution a form of intelligence, even though I wouldn't consider nature a being.

There's a branch of AI research I was briefly working in 15 years ago, based on that premise: Genetic algorithms/programming.

So I'd argue humans were (and are continuously being) designed, in a way.


(non-sarcastically from me this time)

Sure, I would agree with that wording.

In the same way, neural networks which are trained to do a task could be said to be "designed" to do something.

In my view, there's a big difference in what the training data is for a neural network, and what the neural network is "designed" for.

We can train a network using word completion examples, with the intent of designing it for intelligence.


Yup. To counter my own points a bit:

I could also argue that the word "design" has a connotation strictly opposing emergent behaviour like evolution, as in the intelligent design "theory". So not the best word to use perhaps.

And in your example, just because we made a system that exhibits emergent behaviour to some degree, we can't assume it can "design" intelligence the way evolution did, on a much, much shorter timeline, no less.




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