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Melanie Mitchell: Abstraction and Analogy in AI

The Gradient: Perspectives on AI

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The Chinese Room and the Zombies

I think there's that aspect of these benchmarks probably started as this is an easier proxy, something we can measure. But then at some point the proxy becomes the goal and then what you're chasing after really isn't good. That makes me think of things like the Chinese room argument or philosophical zombies where you've got this aspect of, well, this thing that I'm looking at, it seems to display intelligence,. And so the outcomes are perhaps what I expect.

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