October 5, 2019

A Separate Kind of Intelligence

Alison Gopnik, on edge.org:

[…] the explosion of machine learning as a basis for the new AI has made people appreciate the fact that if you’re interested in systems that are going to learn about the external world, the system that we know of that does that better than anything else is a human child.

Fascinating — and yet another theme that a short story in Exhalation includes without being obvious.