Mark Ring
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Everything Mark Ring said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Mark Ring: A lot of modern AI is just a sophisticated party trick
“To a large extent, I think, ah, a lot of AI today is really a computationally sophisticated party trick.”
Mark Ring: Continual learning is the only path to real AI
“Continual learning is about building machines that learn on their own, which I think is the best, maybe the only path to real AI.”
Mark Ring: AI cannot answer questions requiring world visualization
“Nearly any question that requires visualizing how the world works will go well beyond the ability of any AI technology in existence today.”
Mark Ring asserts the human brain is an isolaminar learning mechanism
“The brain Is an isolaminar mechanism. You get one brain. No one gets to tinker with it and change it while you're growing up.”
Ring: Continual forecast chains show first glimpse of true AI understanding
“So I think that what we're seeing here is a first glimpse of true computer understanding of the world around us in the way that, that humans have it.”
Ring: True robot knowledge stems from experience, not pre-programmed labels
“There, these aren't just arbitrary labels or categories that are programmers assigned to a node in a graph. This is verifiable knowledge based on experience in the real world.”
Ring: AI forecasts encode knowledge as subjective, behavior-dependent predictions
“Their secret is that they encode knowledge as behavior-dependent predictions, meaning that each forecast predicts something about what an agent will perceive if it acts in a certain way. So they're subjective predictions. Each one says basically, I will percei…”
Ring: AI forecasts enable layered knowledge by predicting other forecasts
“But critically, forecasts are an isolaminar mechanism, so you can use them layer after layer, from simple to complex. And this is possible because a forecast can make a prediction about another forecast. You can build forecast A to make one prediction, and the…”
Mark Ring: Predictive forecasts can build endlessly abstract AI representations
“Distance maps to doorways, hallways, rooms of different shapes and sizes, and in principle, any distinctive set of forecasts can be predicted, and those predictions can be used to build ever more abstract forecasts continuing indefinitely.”
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