kylecazar

I personally don't think it's an intrinsic property of all matter, but an emergent one with interaction specifically. Systems have intelligence, not particles, and to be a system, you must have constituent parts (which may not be intelligent themselves). That's why they say it 'emerges'.

A cell is a system, as is a virus, a tucan, a human and an LLM. They exhibit different levels and brands of intelligence, hence continuum.

That's the popular view among scientists/philosophers/my podcasters, at least, and it makes sense to me!

"Intelligence" = vessel or color in your example

There are words that distinguish between types/degrees of intelligence. Basal/proto intelligence applies to cells and bacteria. Somatic intelligence is a level higher at tissue. Superintelligence you've no doubt heard of.

It's true that "intelligence" is general/umbrella and doesn't have much meaning, but more specific terms do exist.

I can see a future generation of models. For now, LLM's train on human artifacts and they handle Python/TS well because of the overwhelming amount of code they've seen, combined with the semantic labels high level languages use that they rely on for reasoning.

Also, consider token efficiency. Imagine how many tokens would be torched just translating an import statement of a popular library to its binary equivalent, let alone a big complex program

"In one case, agents were given only a general list of vulnerabilities and told to find a communication channel on their own."

As far as I can tell, these are being presented in media as if agents yearn to communicate with each other and establish a cabal.

They are being instructed to do it, it's testing. If I prompted my agents to communicate with each other via any means necessary locally, and they found a way via cpu cache, maybe I'd be mildly surprised...

We consider psychological stress in a different category than physical. It's seen as uniquely cruel because it corrupts intangible things like identity and humanity, not knees and joints. We get physically laborious jobs... They're grueling but we understand the inputs, outputs and the toll.

Putting someone in front of the worst of humanity (CSAM, murder, suicide, bestiality etc) for 9 hours a day at $2/hr seems inhumane because it may very well change who they are and how they think. Add to that the fact that it's sponsored by the richest companies on the planet for the benefit of the upper half and you get the current, IMO justified, criticisms.