Minsky/LLMs
09 May 2025 - 09 May 2025
- I wonder what he'd think. I suspect he'd say it was a great big distraction, disastrous in some ways to the real project of understanding how minds work. He would not be inclined to view what it is doing asa real intelligence.
- OTOH – they can do a lot of interesting and powerful things! And while they may not be intelligent in their own right, they seem perfectly suited to be components of a Society of Mind or tools for realizing Marvin Minsky/Why programming is a good medium for expressing poorly understood and sloppily-formulated ideas.
- People seem to realize this, that's why everybody and his brother is building some kind of "agent platform" with no very good idea what that means. Doesn't matter I guess.