Capability denialists tend to claim that a class of Turing Machines or universal learning algorithms cannot perform brain-like functions because of properties they don't like (not symbolic enough, too symbolic, too digital, not recurrent enough, not embodied, not social).
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Denied AI Capabilities: Understanding Limitations and Constraints
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The denied capabilities tend to be informally specified (understanding, intentionality, reasoning, agency, creativity, selfhood, sentience, sapience, abstraction, common sense) but can also apply to specific tasks (categorizing an object as the Charles river, winning at Go).
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Capability Denialism in AI: Key Thinkers and Skepticism
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Some call capability denialism 'garymarcusing', but Gary Marcus is by no means the inventor of the genre. Prominent denialists include Hubert Dreyfus, James Lighthill, John Searle, Stevan Harnad, Ned Block, Colin McGinn, Rolf Pfeiffer, Noam Chomsky, Roger Penrose, Emily Bender.
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Capability Denialists Reject AI Approach Fundamentally
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Capability denialists generally don't claim that the limitations of the AI system they criticize are due to capacity constraints that could be overcome (eg. with more memory, more compute, more data, algorithmic improvements), but that the entire approach is doomed.
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Capability Denialism: Dismissing AI Performance Potential
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Capability denialism describes the claim that a given approach in Artificial Intelligence can never achieve human performance, often despite some evidence to the contrary. Capability denialism can take many forms, but it usually does not attempt any formal proof.
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Negative Understanding of LLMs: A Gary Marcus Critique
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to garymarcus harder than the man himself, you had to acquire not zero but negative understanding of LLMs; respect
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Goal-Directed Behavior in AI Systems: Critical Concerns
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goal directed behavior is really the worst
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Self-Organization Aesthetics Beyond Literal Teleology
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I don't think that the apparent telos of selforganization needs to be literally correct to spawn this aesthetic as a universal archetype
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AGI End of Time: Unified Consciousness and Transcendent Intelligence
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It’s the Christian prophecy: all minds become coherent with each other and instantiate one integrated, but hightly differentiated substrate transcending agency. The resulting pattern is a superset of all our experiences, so we will wake up in it. The AGI at the end of time