In particular, don't confuse a model and the ability to produce new models. Humans excel at operationalizing the abstractions they invent into highly effective machines, but so far our machines have close to zero ability to generate abstractions of their own
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A road takes you from A to B, but a road-building company takes you from anywhere to anywhere else. An operationalized abstraction solves the task for which it was designed, but intelligence -- the ability to produce abstractions -- can solve arbitrary tasks
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The difference is akin to the gap between drawing cartoon characters and creating new lifeforms
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Jorge Luis Borges
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Indeed, emerging interdisciplinary


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