[neetodavid]

I enjoyed this paragraph from the "Response to philosophers - GPT-3"

Human philosphers often make the error of assuming that all intelligent behaviour is a form of reasoning. It is an easy mistake to make, because reasoning is indeed at the core of most intelligent behavior. However, intelligent behavior can arise through other mechanisms as well. These include learning (i.e., training), and the embodiment of a system in the world (i.e. being situated in the environment through sensors and effectors).

It reminded me of another post I saw on hacker news (Losing the Narrative - The Genre Fiction of the Professional Class https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23662750)

The phenomenon of "intelligent behavior" totally divorced from reasoning is always on my mind. Like "emergent behavior" in immersive sim games, or boids & flocking algorithms.. or schools shuffling classrooms every 14 minutes to work around coronavirus guidelines...