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Melanie Mitchell: Abstraction and Analogy in AI

The Gradient: Perspectives on AI

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Is There a Degree of Intelligence?

A lot of people in AI talk about intelligence as the capacity to achieve one's goals. But where do those goals come from? How do these goals get into these systems? There's this idea that I think there's a big difference between me having a goal, whatever goals I have being a living system and something like AlphaGo having a goal. We conflate them, which makes it hard to talk about what this intelligence is, systems.

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