☝🏻Microsoft researcher assembled a working neural network from goats in Age of Empires II to ridicule the idea of "conscious" AI
Adrian de Winter is a researcher working simultaneously at Microsoft and the University of York.
In the map editor of the legendary 1999 strategy, he built a fully functional neural network, where the role of bits is played by goats.🐐
He collected logical elements from the built-in tools of the map editor, and the ice paths with “waiting” goats prevent the calculations from getting confused and overlapping each other.
The result is a tiny neural network of several logical blocks that can calculate the simplest “AND” operation.
Instead of answering in the chat, goats start running around the map, starting logic elements one by one and carrying out calculations step by step.
☝🏻There is serious criticism behind the absurd picture.
With his simulation, the researcher criticizes modern scientific works that claim that language models have human traits or the rudiments of consciousness.
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