👋take that, AI!

Option 3: take a breath. Become conscious of the anxiety this sort of message stirs in you. Consider the possibility that building the next phase of your career around the fear of getting left behind might be a really bad basis for producing the kind of work people will want to pay you for – not to mention (and not unrelatedly) a rather grim way to... See more
Oliver Burkemansubstack.comRedefining intelligence as effectively getting what you want from life, and why this exposes AI’s limitations
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But intelligence is poorly defined. What is the definition of intelligence? There's the G factor, which predicts a lot of human outcomes. But the best evidence for the G factor is its predictive power. It's that you measure this one thing and then you see people get much better life outcomes along the way in things that seem even somewhat unrelated
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