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What are functions in this context? How, for example, are they different from other kinds of computation, like database aggregation quieries?

Why just not rent a 3090 from vast ai? This is literally 0.2$ per hour.

something that can reach goals by solving complex, poorly defined problems within limited resource constraints (including time).

DNN RL agents can do that. Of course you'll wave it away as "not general" or "mouse is obviously better". But you won't be able to define that precisely, just the same you're not able to prove ChatGPT "doesn't really reason".

PS. Oh nevermind, I've read your other comments below.

I don't believe your first point will actually work without AGI. It'll run different buggy code indefinitely because it'll never fix all the bugs. My manual experience clearly shows this - GPT4 diverges and from some point in complexity it never recovers.

Not necessarily - you just need hierarchical abstraction memory. I reckon my "token" limit when analysing code is around 7.