I don't know exactly why but I never really understood this argument. Might be some kind of control thing? Because for me it's pretty simple, it's basically free to give access to reality. Just add "sensory organs" as it were. I can argue you can make them perceive reality even better than we (humans) do, just enlarge the audio/video spectrums. Bam...more reality. The whole point of the argument is we're missing information.
Again, I get the need for controlling the environment for what LLM/AI/AGI/whatever will be, but that will always cost more than giving them access to like...reality. Same reason I don't really believe in the whole simulation argument, it's just more expensive all around, loses resolution, let alone control. I don't doubt there will be some people that would indulge in neverending hedonism but not all people. You need to give up control for that.
First, reality is continuous whereas the digital world is discrete.
Second, data in the real world is many orders of magnitude more detailed than what we're able to model with today's computers.
I dunno what you mean by "free". The model is trained on text. To "give" the model sensory organs it would need to be trained on those sensory organs.
Current models can predict text, because that's what the weights represent. Models with sensory organs will need to be trained on the output of those sensory organs.
That sounds close to impossible in the foreseeable future.
Reality is free. You don't have to waste any resources to model it, you just need to capture it.
>The model is trained on text.
See in my previous reply:
>LLM/AI/AGI/whatever will be
LLMs don't even have a sense of time because they work differently to a human brain.