There was a fight early on in the history of intelligence between B.F. Skinner and Noam Chomsky.
Skinner believed in strict behaviorism while Chomsky argued that there was an innate structure that supports language.
AI is focused on reinforcement and neglects the importance of collective cultural artifacts for human intelligence.
Our intelligence is mediated through language, mathematics, music, or shared artifacts.
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?