Representation is present in the brain and culture.
Representation of cultural objects are used to convey ideas.
Number systems are a fossil record of human ingenuity when it comes to representation.
Binary number system is an easy number system for computers.
Representation helps in solving hard problems easily.
With the recent release of GPT-4, now seemed like a good time for our episodes on intelligence. And not just artificial intelligence, but intelligence in general. To help us on this journey, we're joined again by David Krakauer, President and William H. Miller Professor of Complex Systems at the Santa Fe Institute.
This episode is part one of our two-part conversation with David about intelligence. In part 2, David is going to cover artificial intelligence. But in this episode, we're going back to basics and David asks, what is it that makes us intelligent?