Artificial intelligence research may have hit a dead end

Of course, an ordinary computer can generate pseudo-random noise algorithmically, or it can read quantum-random numbers from a special piece of hardware.

As regards limits to generative AI, I don't think this is relevant at all.

David

Well I, like Nail, don't think there are any "deterministic" or "random" processes. One person who had interesting take on this was the Idealist psychologist Don Salmon, who said it would mean this motion was akin to an endless improvised jazz session where novelty is rooted in an existing musical structure.

Why I bring in generative AI is because entertaining the question of these spontaneous fluctuations means the brain isn't acting "just like a computer". Which in turn means a computer is not acting like a brain, which matters [for] legal reasons (AI art gen isn't just doing what human artists do, it's stealing human labor) and confidence in task completion (AI flooded with data isn't going to drive cars like humans can).