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First, intelligence is situational—there is no such thing as general intelligence. Your brain is one piece in a broader system which includes your body, your environment, other humans, and culture as a whole. Second, it is contextual—far from existing in a vacuum, any individual intelligence will always be both defined and limited by its environme
... See moreErik Larson • The Myth of Artificial Intelligence: Why Computers Can’t Think the Way We Do
Ideas cause ideas and help evolve new ideas. They interact with each other and with other mental forces in the same brain, in neighboring brains, and thanks to global communication, in far distant, foreign brains.
Maria Popova • Networked Knowledge and Combinatorial Creativity
“Intuition itself is just an algorithm,” the Google executive, a highly trained engineer, contended, “it’s made up of millions of impressions that we input into the brain.” He suggested we reconstruct and simulate this process.
Tim Leberecht • The Business Romantic
Jim Simons: "I’m not an extremely fast thinker myself; I just work hard."
That was all I needed to do—work hard, not fast. A paper I published in '68 took me five years. But it has had 1,850 citations. For a math paper, that’s an awful lot.
There’s too much emphasis on a person’s being able to answer questions quickly."
Gary Marcus • Deep Learning Is Hitting a Wall
