Intelligence
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Intelligence
Smart people are a dime a dozen and often don’t amount to much. What counts is being creative and imaginative.
Invent and Wander Quotes by Jeff Bezos
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
Evolving definitions of powerful AI
Evolving definitions of powerful AI highlight various perspectives on processes, generality, performance, and impacts, showcasing insights from notable figures throughout the history of artificial intelligence development.
Linkevolving definitions of AI, via Jasmine Sun
AGI is still a decade away. And even then, its not God in a box.
-Andrej Karpathy on Dwarkesh
A lot of very smart people work in strange ways / with a lot of quirks (e.g. contemplating for hours and appearing to do nothing, while then suddenly having 100x output burst). This usually makes them not a great fit for traditional corporate world, where you often have to fake…
Laura Wendelx.comBoth human and machine intelligence seem infinite to me.
Jasmine • 🌻 42 notes on AI and work
“If there’s a clear answer, AI can do it”
“Most of the time there is no clear answer”
This is why the people who score well on intelligence tests and win lots of chess games are no happier than the people who flunk the tests and lose at chess: well-defined and poorly defined problems require completely different problem-solving skills. Life ain’t chess! Nobody agrees on the rules, the pieces do whatever they want, and the board... See more
Adam Mastroianni • Why aren't smart people happier?
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.