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Musk and co should ask AI what defines intelligence. They may learn something
The X owner thinks artificial general intelligence is ‘smarter than the smartest human’. But it’s not as clever as he thinks
In that respect, they’re accurately representative of a tech industry that rebranded machine learning as AI in the hope that it would con mainstream media into believing that a rather mundane but interesting technology was about something really important, namely intelligence , without having to explain what that term actually meant. They included: wisdom and judgment developed through experience; creative insight that transcends pattern recombination; emotional and social intelligence; intuitive understanding that can’t be verbalised; embodied knowledge learned through physical interaction; and self-awareness and metacognition. What this interaction brought to mind was the most perceptive metaphor for LLMs that has emerged so far: US psychologist Alison Gopnik’s idea that these things are a new “cultural technology”, which she defines as a tool that allows individuals to take advantage of collective knowledge, skills and information accumulated through human history.
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