Intelligence

Our work with AI reveals the nature of intelligence, just like sparks once showed us what electricity was

Kelly draws a parallel between the current wave of AI and the early days of electricity; specifically, in how little we truly understand what we’re working with. In the 18th and 19th centuries, even as scientists staged demonstrations of the... See more

"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

In late 1970, Lockheed was near bankruptcy because of the large debt they had built up to fund the L-1011 Tristar commercial aircraft program. They approached the Nixon administration for a $250 million loan guarantee to avoid insolvency. That is about $1.9 billion in today’s dollars. Here was an opportunity to transfer the assets to a private... See more

Human advantage will be caring about other humans: “humans care about other humans and also not at all about machines”

His most striking prediction: “Who in this room would say with conviction, I’m sure I’ll be smarter than GPT5? Not a single person.

Schools are good at teaching and measuring intelligence, so that’s what people tend to value and aspire to. But in almost any field, smarts is what gets rewarded long term.

You cannot measure empathy like you can SAT scores, so it’s not surprising that one is given more weight on resumes. But who is more likely to succeed in life – a person whose... See more

“The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.” — Krishnamurti