We're Not Platonists, We've Just Learned The Bitter Lesson
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The Importance of Intelligence in AI
Belief in intelligence has been a very fruitful way to think about AI. In the middle of a million companies pursuing their revolutionary new paradigms, OpenAI decided to just shrug and try the giant blob of intelligence strategy - and it worked. There are biological reasons why different kinds of intellectual abilities should be related to each other. Some animals are very carefully specialised for certain tasks. For example, birds can navigate very well by instinct. But when this isn't true, their skill at a wide range of cognitive abilities depends on how big their brain is,. How much of a chance they have to learn things, and how efficient the interconnections between brain regions are.
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