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Melanie Mitchell: Abstraction and Analogy in AI

The Gradient: Perspectives on AI

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Is It Even Useful to Slap That Label on Intelligence?

I think it's a problem because the target isn't well defined. What is this human level intelligence you're called? What are the criteria for it? And if you talk about being able to do any cognitive, quote unquote, task that a human can do, what does that even include? I don't think we have a clear sense of the target. We've kind of slapped this label of intelligence on a whole range of things and that makes me think about how there might be some benefit to questioning the use of that term in the first place.

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