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Connor Leahy on AGI and Cognitive Emulation

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The Magic of Machine Learning

The term "magic" is used to describe computation happening that we do not understand. When I give GPT for a problem, so I ask it to do something, there's no idea what is going on in between these two steps. It's all empirical. We have no idea this is magical. This is, we have, you know, summoned a strange little thing from the dimension of math to do some tasks for us. But we don't know how it works.

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