Tag: Marvin Minsky (1927‒2016)

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Erik J. Larson
Date
May 24, 2025

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Artificial general intelligence (AGI), Artificial Intelligence, History

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The Fiction of Generalizable AI: A Tale in Two Parts

_{Why intelligence isn’t a linear scale — and why true generalization remains unsolved} _{Erik J. Larson
May 24, 2025

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Artificial general intelligence (AGI), Artificial Intelligence, History}

The big idea behind generative AI (mistakenly) assumes a network can start blank and be transformed into an intelligent agent simply via enough data.