How to Raise Your Artificial Intelligence: A Conversation With Alison Gopnik and Melanie Mitchell

If there is one myth regarding computer technology that ought to be swept into the dustbin it is the pervasive believe that computers can do only what they are specifically programmed to do. As we’ve seen, machine learning algorithms routinely churn through data, revealing statistical relationships and, in essence, writing their own programs on the

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With all the challenges in ethics and computation, and the knowledge needed from fields like linguistics, psychology, anthropology, and neuroscience, and not just mathematics and computer science, it will take a village to raise to an AI.

• What a modern LLM does during training is, essentially, very very quickly skim the textbook, the words just flying by , not spending much brain power on it.


• Rather, when you or I read that math textbook, we read a couple pages slowly; then have an internal monologue about the material in our heads and talk about it with a few study-buddies; read an

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