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13 Nov 2024

I refuse to believe that there are two totally unrelated kinds of intelligence, or paths to intelligence—where humans, monkeys, guppies, dogs are all one thing, and then neural networks and computers are another thing—and they have absolutely nothing to do with each other.

“I refuse to believe that there are two totally unrelated kinds of intelligence, or paths to intelligence—where humans, monkeys, guppies, dogs are all one thing, and then neural networks and computers are another thing—and they have absolutely nothing to do with each other.”

Speaker: Gwern
Episode: Gwern — Anonymous writer who predicted AI trajectory on $12K/year salary
Publisher: Dwarkesh Podcast

Gwern

What Gwern said.

Then, as I read more and more of the meta reinforcement learning literature, from DeepMind especially, I added in material about neural networks.

I refuse to believe that there are two totally unrelated kinds of intelligence, or paths to intelligence—where humans, monkeys, guppies, dogs are all one thing, and then neural networks and computers are another thing—and they have absolutely nothing to do with each other.