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Which is a fundamental flaw in science.

Most of AI academics have spent their career theorizing complex algorithms or complex explanations of intelligence.

But the engineers have built large enough Neural Networks to give us data points that show intelligence is emergent out of relatively simple components.

Unsurprisingly, the people who believed they were the smartest were the least likely to explore the possibility that human intelligence isn't general, but specialized.

Echos of the academics building heliocentric models of the universe centuries ago.



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