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Let's take a kid and teach them garbage information as they are growing up... minimize as much 'real knowledge' as possible and see what comes out.



Right. There are various examples of what growing up isolated does to your mind.

Intelligence comes from a mix of the universe's stream of data hammering your senses and the teachings of another previous intelligent being.

There's nothing fundamentally wrong in kickstarting a chatbot with lots of pretrained data. It’s Chinese Rooms all the way down.


Agree. What happens? Is a human by default accepted to be an “AGI” entity?




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