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Richard Haier: IQ Tests, Human Intelligence, and Group Differences | Lex Fridman Podcast #302
Lex Fridmanyoutube.com
Differences between AI and human learning, focusing on batch training, lack of continual learning, and catastrophic forgetting in AI.
TRANSCRIPT
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
... See moreThe 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
Modern Wisdom: #482 - Tyler Cowen - The Secret To Finding Great Talent
modernwisdom.libsyn.comThe reason experts are so split on whether or not we're on an exponential path to AI is that intelligence is multi-dimensional. You can be both exponentially exploding/scaling in one dimension and stagnating in another. You can be both superhuman and subhuman at the same time. People tend to focus on the dimensions most salient to their... See more
Kenneth Stanleyx.comgood take
A laptop operates the same whether it is open on a desk in an office or on a bench in a park. But human brains aren’t like that—they are exquisitely sensitive to context. One of the most fertile and fruitful places to “think with” is nature. That’s because, over eons of evolution, our brains were tuned to the kind of sensory information available
... See moreAnnie Murphy Paul • The Extended Mind: The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain
Many brilliant people are rewarded early in life but get lapped by those with average intelligence later on.
When test scores are off the table, courage will take you further than knowing the right answer.
When test scores are off the table, courage will take you further than knowing the right answer.