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AI ain’t easy
💰 Artificial intelligence is hard. Melanie Mitchell of the Santa Fe Institute is here to bring us all back down to Earth. In her new paper, Why AI is Harder Than We Think, she describes four fallacies in common assumptions made by AI researchers, which lead to overconfident predictions. The paper is worth reading in full.
Narrow intelligence is on a continuum with general intelligence.
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