Intelligence
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Intelligence
language models are not intelligent in the ways that even small children are intelligent, but they are already superhuman at tasks like summarization, translation (both linguistic and conceptual), and association. And when you apply those skills to artfully curated source material written by equally, but differently, gifted humans, magic can... See more
Steven Johnson • Revenge of the Humanities
Differences between AI and human learning, focusing on batch training, lack of continual learning, and catastrophic forgetting in AI.
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So mechanically, there seems to clearly be something different, or at least there's a big community of people in the computational neuroscience community that agree that there's got to be something different going on between these systems.
More abstractly, though, what's fundamentally different, which I think is maybe more practically
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"I grew up implicitly thinking that intelligence was this, like really special human thing and kind of somewhat magical. And I now think that it's sort of a fundamental property of matter..." @sama
damn, this one’s a mind bender I’ll have to sit this for a while
Duke Rem: You often suggest (without stating it directly) that human intelligence is inherently social and contextual. How (and why) does this perspective challenge current AI methodologies?
Erik Larson: Human cognition is deeply embedded in social interactions, cultural norms, and the specific contexts in which we operate. We learn, reason, and... See more
Erik Larson: Human cognition is deeply embedded in social interactions, cultural norms, and the specific contexts in which we operate. We learn, reason, and... See more
Erik Larson on AI’s Myths and Limits: Why Machines Can’t Think Like Humans
there’s lots of successful people who don’t necessarily have high raw iq but they have high “fuck around and find out” attitude
ppl who say fuck it and do the thing > ppl who overthink and get paralyzed by fear
tz (tiffany zhong)x.comthere are so many ways to be smart
One of the most remarkable traits of human intelligence, highlighted by the GMM, is opportunistic learning: the ability to draw a lasting rule from a very small number of experiences, sometimes just one. This stands in stark contrast to AI’s dominant approach, based on massive data repetition. For humans, a single experience, especially if... See more
as much about following the pattern as knowing when to break it