🧵 Abacus and intelligence
Anonymous at Thu, 7 Mar 2024 13:03:48 UTC No. 16061285
Is the process of abacus acquiring intelligence(GAI) described anywhere? What are the requirements as far as the minumum number of beads, speed, etc?
Anonymous at Thu, 7 Mar 2024 15:14:50 UTC No. 16061413
Obviously nobody knows. More tractable question: How big an abacus and how much computation time would you need to run a large language model and thereby implement the Chinese room?
Anonymous at Thu, 7 Mar 2024 15:57:55 UTC No. 16061463
>>16061413
More general, validate Clarke's Third Law?
Anonymous at Thu, 7 Mar 2024 16:30:56 UTC No. 16061491
>>16061285
The best one to use is the Japanese Soroban. I have one and it’s very good.
Anonymous at Thu, 7 Mar 2024 17:27:24 UTC No. 16061553
>>16061491
You might be off topic
Anonymous at Thu, 7 Mar 2024 19:28:34 UTC No. 16061690
>>16061285
Hello. Surprised another anon mentioned abacus. I'm 3 time Taiwanese champion perfect score 1st place 3 time in a row undefeated and other student avoid competition I'm in.
There's surprisingly very little information about the Chinese abacus in western circles. Even Amazon books doesn't really have any information about it. The abacus is a ancient tool primarily used to calculate transactions and do basic adding and subtracting.
I could beat a computer using my brain in speed if it's anything like 2 digit numbers multiplied by one digit. If you ask me to do like a 10 digit multiplied by 5 digit number I would need to write it down and do it the American way. Sometimes when I do it in my head I'm off by 1.
I'm having trouble understanding your question. I don't think the minimum number of beads and the speed matter because when I do it in my head I only use like 3 or 4 rows. Ever since the smartphone calculators, abacus has not been all that useful. Even in college every student knows how to add and subtract and big problems get solved with a calculator. I'm really not sure what you're asking when you say the abacus acquires the ability to generate text, images, and other media. It's just a ancient calculator with beads. Maybe it would make images of shapes and patterns.
Anonymous at Thu, 7 Mar 2024 19:46:26 UTC No. 16061710
>>16061690
>It's just a ancient calculator with beads
So is the modern computer
Anonymous at Thu, 7 Mar 2024 22:43:46 UTC No. 16061952
>>16061710
You tell me, Charles Babbage
Anonymous at Fri, 8 Mar 2024 14:30:51 UTC No. 16062800
>>16061952
I think we need a $1T IPO first to find out. So far we've only been able to hit $100B on the stock market.
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/02/09/ope