"The AI industry has effectively substituted benchmark performance for deeper conceptions of intelligence, allowing "cheap tricks" that exploit statistical patterns to stand in for genuine understanding. This substitution enables progress measured in metrics while sidestepping the thornier philosophical questions."
It occurs to me that art realizes then combines seemingly unrelated unnamed flickers of essences into a new collection of essences. That is hard to say without resorting to using a term "non things"
“Flickers of essences” combined into “a new collection of essences” suggests art as a creative force that repurposes “non things” that never actually had a purpose, which are not things but ephemeral flickers into new things. Yes, I follow you, Malcolm. In a way, you're referring again to “word harmonies.”
I wonder if it's reasonable to consider intelligence as cognitive output. I see intelligence in the architecture of my feet, which allows for mobility to run away from sabretooth tigers, to dance with my wife, to paint with my toes, or to kick a ball. I see intelligence in the hydrological cycle of our planet, the unfolding of a flower, the spawning of a fish. Intelligence is all around us, most of which is not the result of human cognition.
I prefer to think of intelligence as a domain or substrate that finds expression through complexity. Humans once again fall into the trap of trying to assign value based upon a measurement, but can we compare the genius of the architecture of my knee to the brilliance of Terence Tao? I don't know that my knee 'understands' math; I don't know that Tao can calculate the genius of my knee.
Honestly, Ryan, I've been struggling with the notion of intelligence for years. I myself was misdiagnosed as being a "slow learner" when I moved as a child from a backwoods rural school to a more urban school district with ability tracking. The psychologist called my mom to verify his judgment with her understanding and she went ballistic. No, this kid isn't slow! Now his brother... The guy retested me and let us know I was "accelerated" and explained sometimes being accelerated turns up as being slower. I've been confused ever since. I think intelligence has been such a useful term because it's such an important concept and we can all choose to use it as we like. I think it should be retired from the dictionary myself. It has caused me more problems than it is worth. I do think the foot and the knee are elegant examples of intelligence; I believe biological intelligence may be worth studying.
"The AI industry has effectively substituted benchmark performance for deeper conceptions of intelligence, allowing "cheap tricks" that exploit statistical patterns to stand in for genuine understanding. This substitution enables progress measured in metrics while sidestepping the thornier philosophical questions."
It occurs to me that art realizes then combines seemingly unrelated unnamed flickers of essences into a new collection of essences. That is hard to say without resorting to using a term "non things"
for example the invention of new words.
“Flickers of essences” combined into “a new collection of essences” suggests art as a creative force that repurposes “non things” that never actually had a purpose, which are not things but ephemeral flickers into new things. Yes, I follow you, Malcolm. In a way, you're referring again to “word harmonies.”
I wonder if it's reasonable to consider intelligence as cognitive output. I see intelligence in the architecture of my feet, which allows for mobility to run away from sabretooth tigers, to dance with my wife, to paint with my toes, or to kick a ball. I see intelligence in the hydrological cycle of our planet, the unfolding of a flower, the spawning of a fish. Intelligence is all around us, most of which is not the result of human cognition.
I prefer to think of intelligence as a domain or substrate that finds expression through complexity. Humans once again fall into the trap of trying to assign value based upon a measurement, but can we compare the genius of the architecture of my knee to the brilliance of Terence Tao? I don't know that my knee 'understands' math; I don't know that Tao can calculate the genius of my knee.
Honestly, Ryan, I've been struggling with the notion of intelligence for years. I myself was misdiagnosed as being a "slow learner" when I moved as a child from a backwoods rural school to a more urban school district with ability tracking. The psychologist called my mom to verify his judgment with her understanding and she went ballistic. No, this kid isn't slow! Now his brother... The guy retested me and let us know I was "accelerated" and explained sometimes being accelerated turns up as being slower. I've been confused ever since. I think intelligence has been such a useful term because it's such an important concept and we can all choose to use it as we like. I think it should be retired from the dictionary myself. It has caused me more problems than it is worth. I do think the foot and the knee are elegant examples of intelligence; I believe biological intelligence may be worth studying.