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Its not an assumption, it is a fact about how computers function today. LLMs interpolate, they do not extrapolate. Nobody has shown a method to get them to extrapolate. The insistence to the contrary involves an unstated assumption that technological progress towards human-like intelligence is in principle possible. In reality, we do not know.

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As long as agnosticism is the attitude, that’s fine. But we shouldn’t let mythology about human intelligence/computational capacity stop us from making progress toward that end.

> unstated assumption that technological progress towards human-like intelligence is in principle possible. In reality, we do not know.

For me this isn’t an assumption, it’s a corollary that follows from the Church-Turing thesis.

That certainly doesn’t follow from the Church-Turing thesis because the Church Turing thesis doesn’t demonstrate that human intelligence is computational. That it is still an unstated assumption.

Noted, thanks.

I don’t know what non-computational intelligence would look like but I guess I’ll keep my mind open.

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