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Intelligence
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
The dream of a Liberal (arts) education—which is the scaled, democratic form of the Keatsian ideal of negative capability—cannot hold up when liberalism itself is held to be suspect.
Zohar Atkins • The Liberal Arts Are Dying Because Liberalism is Dying
Greatness does not come out of intelligence, it comes from character.
Character is not formed out of smart people: it is formed out of people who have suffered.
-Jensen Huang
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
