Automated science as a vision for AI
Human intelligence is a misleading vision for AI. It’s bloatware, and bloatware can kill (or at least seriously delay) even the most determined projects.
The intelligence we need to create in machines isn’t a natural phenomenon, it’s a human invention. The goal isn’t artificial human intelligence, it’s automated scientific discovery.
The bloatware of intelligence
What is intelligence? It’s an inherently controversial and bloated question. Here are 70 definitions of intelligence, and this list barely scratches the surface. But whatever your working definition, the human variety of general intelligence is indisputably our best example.
As such, conventional wisdom holds that the only reasonable archetype for artificial intelligence is human. But is it true?
“99 percent of human qualities and abilities are simply redundant” — Yuval Noah Harari
Experts would dispute this popular notion. Norvig and Stuart highlight that thinking and acting humanly is but one slice of AI; rationality is a peer level consideration…
