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#312 - The Trouble with AI

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Inexpressive Power of Computers

A computer program can't recognize a circular sandwich and lose all its pieces. It's not just an accident, it seems to be a qualitative failure of these networks to generalize properly. And this notion of expressive power is absolutely central to computer science. If you use an inexpressive representation, then and you try to represent a given concept, you end up with an enormous and ridiculously over-complicated representation of that concept.

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