Post #2821021
2026-04-16 14:04 UTC
I feel a little bit the same way about LLMs and intelligence: that intelligence (human or otherwise) will always be kludged together out of off-the-shelf parts, rather than designed top-down according to some glorious, overarching architecture.
In the case of the human brain, existing structures were probably recruited and subverted and repurposed to cobble together what we call consciousness.
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@angusm@mastodon.social 2026-04-16 14:08
In the case of 'artificial general intelligence’, if it ever arrives (and I don't see why it can’t, although I don't believe it’s in any way imminent), then it'll be a similarly messy kludge assembled from bits and pieces. And while I don't believe for a second that existing LLMs are in any way “intelligent", the technology underlying them is spookily good at doing SOMETHING, and that something might be a necessary part of building an intelligent system. 8/
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@n_dimension@infosec.exchange 2026-04-16 14:51
@angusm@mastodon.social Probably does a lot of heavy lifting here. David Chalmers coined the term "Hard problem of consciousness" because he didn't see what you see.