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Intelligence 1: What makes us intelligent?

Simplifying Complexity

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The Importance of Instinct in Artificial Intelligence

The notion of what a reflex is or an instinct is is actually somewhat difficult. It's certainly not something fixed. When we get to these higher mammals like ourselves or humans, I've heard you speak before. But the things that we define as humans as intelligent, one example you talk about a lot is chess. We see chess as sort of the pinnacle of intelligence. But can you talk about chess and the Ruby's cube and something like basketball? Yeah, so it's interesting, right,  that when researchers became interested in creating artificial varieties of intelligence, computational intelligence. And it turns out to be quite easy, we already have programs that are better than us at chess. But we

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