Talent is often used to describe athletes instead of intelligence
Competence without comprehension is key to true talent in any domain
Expertise acquired through practice becomes effortless and looks effortless
The better someone is at something, the more effortless it appears, which is counter to how we typically associate intelligence
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?