Everything I know about humans I learned from birds. No, seriously. Birds have been an obsession for probably over half my life. It all started when

On Programming Purpose: Part 1 - Robot Bible

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2024-05-07 05:00:03

Everything I know about humans I learned from birds. No, seriously. Birds have been an obsession for probably over half my life. It all started when “Life of Birds” sparked my curiosity about behavior. What followed was countless hours of waiting, observing, and often listening to the real Twitterverse.

It’s fair to say that human language has come full circle. Beginning from pictures (see Fig A), and back to pictures again. English serving as programming of sorts. Very soon you can show a computer pictures and program that way too. Great day for symbols and symbolism.

The cuneiform script (depicted in Fig A) was in use from 2500 BC to ~1000 AD. That’s over 3000 years in popular usage. Here’s a thought exercise: What could a hypothetical LLM built in this era have accomplished for humanity, I wonder?

What could a machine learning system from the year 500 AD have learned? Would it achieve AGI/ASI (Artifical Superintelligence) by now? I believe today's machine learning systems are only learning our preferences. At best, they are learning to ape humans. If we want a monkey, we’ll get one. One that can be subjugated to do tricks, but I’m positive we don’t get intelligence.