from Diary 2023-03-21 AI’s physicality and symbolic emergent systems.
t_inamura I think the mainstream view of ChatGPT is that “there is no corporeality, so it is still in its infancy”. His (her?) “body” is the Internet, his “brain” is the Transfomer and memory space, sensory signals are text information from humans, and the Actuator is a text generator (+display). We can think of Actuator as a text generator (+display). t_inamura Then, I feel that he is also a subject with his own body-brain-environment loop with a unique cyclic world. Yes, “environment” for him is the entire human race, and depending on the definition of “intelligence through interaction with the environment based on physicality,” it may be possible that “intelligence based on physicality” in his cyclic world is established. t_inamura Inspired by @tanichu’s statement that “the definition of physicality is important.
tanichu > Symbols are not important because they have a discrete or grammar. It’s important because it can be generated and can be used to observe others. And it transcends time and space as memory externalized by its expression. Furthermore, there is arbitrariness and freedom in its interpretation, so it can be tuned at the level of society. That is the meaning of symbolic emergence. tanichu > I feel like we can finally get over the problematics of just internalizing language and everyone can go to the main problem of symbolic phenomena. > [tanichu It has been almost 20 years since I got the idea of symbolic emergent systems and started talking about language as an emergent system. Constructivism is finally going to reveal the emergent dynamics of language,.
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