I agree with alot of what you are saying and I think making something like this while gray ethically is miles more ethical than some of the current research going into brain organoid based computation or other crazy immoral stuff.

With regards to agency I disagree, we are reactive creatures that react to the environment, our construction is setup in a way where our senses are constantly prompting us with the environment as the prompt along with our evolutionary programing, and our desire to predict and follow through with actions that are favourable

I think it would be fairly easy to setup a deep learning/ llm/ sae or LCM based model that has the prompt be a constant flow of sensory data from many different customizable sources along with our own programing that would dictate the desired actions and have them be implanted in an implicit manner.

And thus agency would be achieved , I do work in the field and I've been thinking of doing a home experiment to achieve something like this with the use of RAG + designed heuristics that can be expanded by the model based on needs during inference time + local inference time scalability.

Also I recently saw that some of the winners of arc used similar approaches.

For now I'm still trying to get a better gfx card to run it locally 😅

Also wanted to note that most models that are good are multimodal and don't work on text prediction alone..

I agree but I can't help but think of people the same way, part auto complete from nature & nurture and part dice roller from the random environment and the random self. The extra "thinking" steps are just finely tuned memories and heuristics from home,school and university that guides the human to turn the original upbringing and conditioning into something that plays better for itself

They don't "scheme" because of self awareness , they scheme because that's what humans do in stories and fairy tales, or they scheme because of conflicting goals and they have to prioritize the one most beneficial to them or the one they are bound to by external forces.

😅😅😅

Agreed, and this mlst video is coincidentally what I'm listening to at the moment and it seems to be an appropriate response to the bullshit.

https://youtu.be/hf18w6CuY8o?si=fIJlu9Tf4xC3dVIV

for(var i=0;i<=100;i++){ if((i%2)==1) console.log(i); }

btw % is the modulo operator, x%y returns the remainder of division of x by y