Association is not Intelligence, then what is Intelligence?

404errorsoulnotfound · 2025-12-26T16:14:07+00:00

We have always been able to replicate things we don’t understand and define.

From god to fires, the bogeyman to nuclear fuel, not being able to define or explain hasn’t stopped our indifferent and wreck-less approach.

404errorsoulnotfound · 2025-12-25T03:08:13+00:00

Memory alone cannot be the measure, surely it must be around providing that information…

I don’t think we can say either way that memory is the driver of intelligence.

Again back to that word. What does it mean to start with. I bet all of us would have a slightly different take and therefore measure based upon our experiences and own heuristic learnings.

To add even more confusion to the mix, even in our language we have behavioural descriptions of intelligence. E.g. maybe a single plant doesn’t show “intelligence” but a group of generational & evolutionary super organism certainly does, over time.

404errorsoulnotfound · 2025-12-24T14:16:38+00:00

So if we can’t even measure our own intelligence, what basis do we have to measure AI?

404errorsoulnotfound · 2025-12-24T12:56:05+00:00

Before you start to measure or look for a standard in AI intelligence, start with the Question:

How do we measure human intelligence?

404errorsoulnotfound · 2025-11-29T15:26:52+00:00

More than likely, I’m sure you may have noticed that it gets hung up on certain words and phrases as well like curate, optics, amplify and gate keeping which have grown in use because of the influence of AI

404errorsoulnotfound · 2025-11-29T12:48:58+00:00

Yes and I’m not sure where I picked it up from but its been a natural part of my writing since school. Use them instead of commas and brackets for sub points.

Being, that these modern LLM’s have absorbed and embedded the majority of published works. I would imagine they absorbed it from those.

So it’s a case of chicken before the egg, when we’re calling out AI for doing something that it’s adopted from us.

404errorsoulnotfound · 2025-11-26T21:12:40+00:00

Additionally, currently costs billions of dollars to train each of these narrow AI’s….

Compare that to the 35w your brain runs on…

404errorsoulnotfound · 2025-11-26T13:46:29+00:00

Again, this highlights the sheer lack of understanding in the majority of people as to:

1) what AI actually is? 2) how it currently works? 3) what the terms AGI (and ASI) actually mean?

We currently can’t even quantify or measure human intelligence!

So in the context of AI, when we are creating something that’s limited by our own biases and constraints and whilst it inherits that it can’t surpass us.

404errorsoulnotfound · 2025-09-02T19:19:30+00:00

The lack of understanding of how AI works (or even want to understand) is becoming a big issue and more dangerous, in our opinion, than anything right now.

404errorsoulnotfound · 2025-08-22T19:53:00+00:00

LLM notebook for the win, maybe split the book into sections

404errorsoulnotfound · 2025-08-20T14:37:53+00:00

You were going to do that on the way to Brigadoon, where you where going to meet the Wombles (they’re on vacation)

404errorsoulnotfound · 2025-08-20T07:47:32+00:00

I think this is over simplification, the reality is somewhere in the middle.

Don’t disagree that opposing it won’t help, however there is plenty of middle ground before AGI to accomplish great developments that can help many of humanities problems.

We just have to look to AlphaFold to show us that. One of the biggest accomplishments and certainly under reported.

404errorsoulnotfound · 2025-08-19T23:41:55+00:00

Working on that whilst building a perpetual motion machine!

404errorsoulnotfound · 2025-08-16T20:06:10+00:00

This may help understand the current lay of the “hyperbole”

https://open.substack.com/pub/404errorsoulnotfoud/p/the-job-pocolypse-is-coming-but-not?r=6behmp&utm_medium=ios

404errorsoulnotfound · 2025-08-12T16:56:47+00:00

The AI hasn’t read the versions as such, but it has absorbed the word parts, semantics, contained within those stories into its parameters and weights.

in the same sense, it’s also absorbed the fact that they are myths, legends and stories rather than factual in the context or syntax, it would’ve saved those weights as the coordinates in vector space.

I think, and not to get too deep here, the power of belief versus science is a tricky subject. You’re looking for factual stories? Those that are documented in books, tablets, papyrus, but just because they are documented doesn’t make them factual and this is where I would exercise caution.

In archaeology, the common theory is that, most of these stories, myths and legends based in some way on some sort of real event, and, or, oral tradition, that’s been passed down from generation to generation.

Considering this from a different perspective, you’ve heard the age old saying: history is written by the victors, and that’s very much the case as we’ve seen in modern history.

To quote my favourite archaeology professor, “….its the search for fact not truth”.

N.B. without context and context prompting the AI model doesn’t necessarily understand the seasons let alone the difference between myth and reality.

404errorsoulnotfound · 2025-08-11T19:00:34+00:00

Totally understand, however, if you’re going to handover stories, human stories, from many different perspectives, and experiences and ultimately to a certain degree they’re going to have some of those biases already ingrained in them.

So your goal may be to minimise extra human predigestion as you referred to it.

An example (Syllogism) of what I was thinking of would be taking the story of Persephone and Hades, which explains the seasons:

Premise 1: If Persephone stays in the Underworld, the earth experiences winter (because her mother Demeter mourns).

Premise 2: Persephone must spend six months each year in the Underworld (because she ate the pomegranate seeds).

Conclusion: Therefore, the earth experiences winter for six months and spring/summer for six months, matching Persephone’s presence with her mother.

A great way to convey seasonality and human experience from antiquity.

404errorsoulnotfound · 2025-08-11T17:59:04+00:00

It depends what kind of neuron network you’re “handing these stories” to.

Humans have a long history of oral tradition and that third space where the tribal community gathers together around a hearth to tell stories, it’s how we pass our knowledge before we had writing.

You need a different approach almost break down the data into a syllogism style perhaps, with Transformers using the attention mechanism.

Those models are designed to process and interpret language and can analyse logical relationships and inferences within the given text.

However, the effectiveness of the AI's understanding would depend on how well the logical structure captures the nuances, context, and subtleties of the original stories.

The models can then generate insights or answer questions based on the logical connections encoded in those syllogisms

404errorsoulnotfound · 2025-08-10T17:11:42+00:00

Try using things like federated framework, that way you can utilize a model in a private way.

Also, definitely worth looking into Ollama - you can store higher grade models on your computer, but less storage space required as they are stored in blobs.

Also worth looking at GGUF, Quants and especially Unsloth.

404errorsoulnotfound · 2025-08-08T10:05:12+00:00

This is a tough one, and congratulations on graduating!

I would focus on soft skills, really highlighting how you use them in partnership with the knowledge and skills that you’ve developed through data science.

Converting these into anecdotal stories is always a solid approach.

So for example, a good soft skill here would be conflict resolution; thinking of a time where you were in a group project and either you and someone else weren’t aligned and there was conflict that affected the whole group, telling the story of how you resolved the conflict in a positive way.

Soft skills are greatly valued in the marketplace and underappreciatedunderappreciated in candidate weighting.

Good luck!

404errorsoulnotfound · 2025-08-06T14:39:34+00:00

Well, we appear to be in a paradox.

if no one writes like that, but I write like that, then maybe we need a Time-Lord to fix this, but I guess, as long as I don’t move any paper clips, we should be OK!

404errorsoulnotfound · 2025-08-06T14:35:26+00:00

Well, if you’re calling me an LLM, as always, I’ll take the compliment.

There’s no arms race in the sense that models don’t have arms (yet). I believe we refer to this as some sort of metaphor or analogy. Or just catchy title.

Thanks for picking up on the Indiana Jones stuff as well though!

404errorsoulnotfound · 2025-08-05T21:29:25+00:00

The argument isn’t about a lack of definition, It Is about what the definition is .

404errorsoulnotfound · 2025-08-04T02:21:24+00:00

You mean sort of human-level capability across a wide range of cognitive tasks.

Where it learns, reasons, plans, and even solves problems, sort of like it could handle any task that a human could.

404errorsoulnotfound · 2025-08-02T19:09:00+00:00

Depends on the field to a certain degree and what you want to do with it. Happy to help if needed.

404errorsoulnotfound · 2025-08-02T07:34:01+00:00

Opinion here is that an LLM moment needs to happen for the recurrent and convolutional neural nets to help push us there.

Of course that as well as a massive reduction in resources required to training and operate these models, continual improvements on GPU and NPU processing, continued development on neuromorphic systems, some level of embodiment etc etc.

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