For by Him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible,... all things were created by Him, and for Him: Colossians 1:16
Information = DESIGN
"Information is not meaningful simply because it exists or because it is improbable. It becomes meaningful only if there exists a system that can interpret it and use it to perform a function.Q: What do a software engineer, an information theorist, and a
It is not simply that the AI possesses vast amounts of information.
A library can contain vast amounts of information without being intelligent.
Rather, the AI would have expanded the set of functions it can perform by making a scientific discovery that no previous system had achieved. Therefore, the defining characteristic of a generally intelligent system (or AGI) is not that it can perform existing functions, but that it can generate new functional capabilities that were not initially part of the system and were not transferred from another system that already possessed them.
But this immediately raises a deeper question:
Q: What allows any system to acquire capabilities it did not previously possess?
Information only becomes useful when some system can use it to perform a function."
Q: What allows any system to acquire capabilities it did not previously possess?
Information only becomes useful when some system can use it to perform a function."
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