That person's argument is borderline insane to me - a severe lack of knowing what is unknown, a reverence of current best-models (regards modern science, including neurology - yet, open minded investigations beyond are also a requisite here.) And the pompousness is what truly boggles my mind ("Its silly to believe this, now.) A look in the mirror would suffice to say the least...
Anyway, thank you for a great answer and conversation throughout this thread.
Regards neural networks, parroting and the emulation of intelligence (or the difference between an emulation and the "real thing"):
Well, somewhat like you say, we cannot propose a valid comparison from one to the other without an understanding of one (consciousness) or both. It's fascinating that there are some open, valid and pressing questions about what / how the output of this new wave of software is concretized (from foundational, semi-statistical algorithms in this case.)
Yes, I do agree neurons have something to do with the "final output". But this is a subsection of the problem - organic neurons is-an/are order(s) of magnitude in complexity beyond what the tricky "parrot" is up to. Moreso, these components perform very different functionally - the known functions of the neuron compared to ANN, backprop etc. The entire stack.)
P.S: One interesting theory I like to simulate and/or entertain is that every organic cell in the body has something to do with the final output of consciousness.
Installing now to check this out for my large collection of PDFs. Thank you for the open source library.
Edit: Was hoping there was support for this feature, but after the long build / fetching of dependencies, a mandatory ask before I could even theoretically use this software would be bulk import of files / directories (ideally tree walking, but not necessary)
Also even for a single file upload, I was expecting the add form to at least be partially populated with scraped metadata, but that is not the case? Title / author / DOI is at possible. Title could even default to the file name but a lot of friction here otherwise.
Anyway, thank you for a great answer and conversation throughout this thread.
Regards neural networks, parroting and the emulation of intelligence (or the difference between an emulation and the "real thing"):
Well, somewhat like you say, we cannot propose a valid comparison from one to the other without an understanding of one (consciousness) or both. It's fascinating that there are some open, valid and pressing questions about what / how the output of this new wave of software is concretized (from foundational, semi-statistical algorithms in this case.)
Yes, I do agree neurons have something to do with the "final output". But this is a subsection of the problem - organic neurons is-an/are order(s) of magnitude in complexity beyond what the tricky "parrot" is up to. Moreso, these components perform very different functionally - the known functions of the neuron compared to ANN, backprop etc. The entire stack.)
P.S: One interesting theory I like to simulate and/or entertain is that every organic cell in the body has something to do with the final output of consciousness.