For your viewing pleasure, here’s a great video of Richard Feynman:
“Can Machines Think”
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Always love a bit of Richard Feynman!
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It may come down to scaling issues, as many things often do. Hallucinations and diminishing returns are the reasons behind the insatiable demand for more and more compute.
Could it be that true intelligence requires physical (sensorimotor) existence? A human mind uses tens of watts, not billions. Embodied Cognition Theory may rise again.
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About a year ago, there was a topic (Real-world implications of the TBT?) that touched on some vaguely related topics. For example, I posted:
… I’d strongly recommend watching Bret Victor’s tour de force presentation, Media for Thinking the Unthinkable. His companion essay, An Ill-Advised Personal Note about “Media for Thinking the Unthinkable”, is also worth reading…
In the video presentation (made a dozen years ago at the MIT Media Lab), Bret talks about how Watson and Crick used manipulative thinking to discover the structure of DNA.