As part of SFI’s broader Nature of Intelligence project, a recent working group explored AGI, or artificial general intelligence, from the perspective of cognitive science, asking how current definitions of AGI overlap with how researchers understand natural intelligence.
So sad to hear that Michael Rabin passed away. One of the most brilliant computer scientists ever, and a very caring, thoughtful teacher. I was lucky to be able to take a theory of computation class from him, way back in the day.
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There's some kind of meta claim to be made here: "No decent philosopher believes that no decent philosopher believes that...."
Philosopher click-bait, par excellence:
Very good article what it would take for AI to have "agency" and self-preservation goals (w/ a few quotes from me).
& I appreciate the reiterated debunking of the "GPT-4 on its own lied to a TaskRabbit worker to solve a captcha" story.
www.quantamagazine.org/why-do-we-te...
Wait, I thought Al Gore wrote it
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While we wait for the end of civilization, I'm stuck at the Denver airport, and the music they're playing on the speakers is Johnny Cash, Ring of Fire.
Incredible song.
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The Causality in Cognition Lab -- a supportive, bluesky-colored team -- is looking for a predoc to join us! Here are infos about the lab (cicl.stanford.edu) and the position (careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/iriss-p...). The application deadline is May 1st.
Please share, thank you 🙏
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The Experts in question are babies 3 months and older
I enjoyed this discussion with @benjaminjriley.bsky.social
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Pittsburgh! #NoKings
While most states have a state bird or state color, New Mexico has an official state question: “Red or green?”
Enjoy, and see you soon!
I'm not sure -- I will try to find out.
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Good article about the dangers of trusting "almost perfect" technology ⬇️
Can attest to this -- just underwent such a nightmare myself. A "half hour" is a vast underestimate....
I'm looking forward to visiting Carnegie Mellon University this week. I'll be giving a talk on 3/26 at noon at the AI Institute for Social Decision Making. For people in Pittsburgh, here's the link: events.cmu.edu/ai-sdm/event...
I don't know if there will be an option for virtual streaming.
3000 No Kings events. That’s because America is at an inflection point. Communities are hurting. People are afraid, and they can’t afford the basics. 3,000 No Kings events are already planned across the country & more are being added every day. That’s people power. www.nokings.org/news/over-30...
Looking forward to reading this paper!
Note that the "dark matter of intelligence" analogy was also used by Yejin Choi to talk about common sense:
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Great post! But one correction: I am not the author of the post "No, ‘AI’ is not a stochastic parrot". That's Margaret Mitchell. 🙂
"Skills that seemed the most technical and forbidding can turn out to be the ones most easily automated."
Or as Minsky said, when it comes to AI:
"Hard things are easy and easy things are hard."
