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
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
The project would attempt to invent an anti-gravity system from the ground up instead of reverse engineering it. This project began in 1955 with the establishment of the Research Institute for Advanced Studies (RIAS) at the Glenn L. Martin Company, which later became Martin-Marietta and ultimately merged with Lockheed in 1995 to form the modern... See more