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It's a long article. But I'm not sure about the claims. Will we get more efficient computers that work like a brain? I'd say that's scifi. Will we get artificial general intelligence? Current LLMs don't look like they're able to fully achieve that. And how would AI continuously learn? That's an entirely unsolved problem at the scale of LLMs. And if we ask if computer science is science... Why compare it to engineering? I found it's much more aligned with maths at university level...

I'm not sure. I didn't read the entire essay. It sounds to me like it isn't really based on reality. But LLMs are certainly challenging our definition of intelligence.

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technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

Why do they say a Turing machine is a imaginary concept (which is correct), then say ENIAC became the first one, but then maybe not?

Thanks for pointing out this hilarious section. A Turing machine is an “imaginary concept” just like any of mathematics. An abacus is also an “imaginary concept”. But people can still make them (at least finite versions).

When they start talking about “imaginary concepts”, it’s pretty clear that the author has no understanding about the relationship between math, science, engineering, etc. That lack of understanding is a necessary prerequisite for writing this kind of article.

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- hendrik@palaver.p3x.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Yes. Plus the turing machine has like an infinite memory tape to write and read. Something that is in scope of mathematics, but we don't have any infinite tapes in reality. That's why we call it a mathematical model (imaginary) and not a real machine.
  
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