The Intelligence and Rationality of AI and Humans: A Conversation With Steven Pinker
Harvard Data Science Review Podcast
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The Relationship Between Intelligence and Rationality
The concept of artificial intelligence would be an oxymoron, he says. We can talk about whether the person deploys his or her raw brain power to attaining goals that are more consistent with a person's long-term and overall goals. When we say smart people can do stupid things, that's not a contradiction, it's not oxymoron,. What we mean is that in terms of what people value over the course of their lives, the steam, respect, health, stability, and so on, people can do things in the short run that subvert their goals in the long run. There may be a separate dimension of rationality that is not orthogonal to intelligence, but
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