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How is it not emerging, if the phenomena hasn’t been hard-wired in and is unexpected?

• ggm 2y ago
  Unexpected I can handle. Emerging has overtones to AGI It's like fusion. "Sustained plasma" and "more energy out than in" said time after time after time.
  • baq 2y ago
    Emergent basically means ‘we didn’t design this capability but it’s there’, it’s always been a thing, not sure why you associate it with AGI so strongly.
  • johnthewise 2y ago
    Do you think its not emergent because you think this behavior was explicitly coded in or you dont think its emergent because you dont like the implications of thinking it?
    • daveguy 2y ago
      Option 3: It's not emergent because the capabilities are vastly overstated.
    • ggm 2y ago
      Words like emergent, hallucinate, reason, think, infer.. they carry additional meaning. Their use as terms of art in some cases is because for the cognoscenti it helps understand intent by simile, but for the person in the street it is read to mean much more. There are of course lots of interesting emergent behaviours, the patterns in bistable chemical reactions which fascinated Turing, patterns from fractals, flocking models for particle animations from a few rules.