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Someone once gave the analogy of climbing to the moon. You can report steady progress until you get to the top of the tree/mountain. I think this is applicable here. We'll need a new paradigm, beyond statistical learning, to create AGI

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David Deustch has an article online somewhere and his conclusion is that the leap has to be made by philosophy first. We need to first figure out the theory of intelligence and potentially consciousness first, and then information theory will follow.

Same could've been said about every aspect of human progress, if we had asked philosophers to opine (they opine anyway, but the civilization moves forward regardless).

David Deustch says a lot of strange stuff.

> We'll need a new paradigm, beyond statistical learning, to create AGI

What makes you say that? Can you suggest a problem that you think is not addressable by statistical learning?

The many facets of human thought include planning towards novel goals, inferring others' goals from their actions, learning structured theories to describe the rules of the world, inventing experiments to test those theories, and learning to recognise new object kinds from just one example.

That and machines making up jokes. And word puns. And jokes again, and machines understanding and enjoying said jokes.

Not being able to imagine how method A may produce result B is no evidence against method A. It may very well be evidence towards lack of imagination :)

The phenomenal binding problem.

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