as AI ramps up, we are rapidly going to need more words to talk about the different kinds of intelligence there are and/or what gets to be called intelligence in the first place
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as AI ramps up, we are rapidly going to need more words to talk about the different kinds of intelligence there are and/or what gets to be called intelligence in the first place
> I’d make a big distinction between super-functional and intelligent. Let me use the following analogy: No one would say that a car runs faster than a human. They would say that a car can move faster on an even surface than a human.
> So it can complete a function more effectively, but it’s not running faster than a human. One of the questions here is whether we’re using “intelligence” in a consistent fashion. I don’t think we are.
great article that resonates with some of the observations I've been making, although it's making some reifications I'm not nautil.us/does-gpt-4-rea…
> look at these algorithms. What is their selective context? Us. We are cultural selection on algorithms. They don’t have to survive in the world. They have to survive by convincing us they’re interesting to read.