Transmission Versus Truth: What Will It Take to Make an Al as Smart as a 4-Year-Old?

From Santa Fe Institute

Alison Gopnik (University of California, Berkeley, SFI) There is no such thing as general intelligence — artificial or natural — argues Alison Gopnik. Instead, there are multiple intelligences, each with its own trade-offs. Three different types of cognitive capacities mark human development, and our life histories accommodate intrinsic trade-offs between the three. The extended human childhood allows a period of protected broad-ranging exploration and truth-seeking, adulthood allows exploita...