{"id":10272,"date":"2023-07-26T06:51:07","date_gmt":"2023-07-26T06:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/?p=10272"},"modified":"2023-07-26T06:51:07","modified_gmt":"2023-07-26T06:51:07","slug":"10272","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/2023\/07\/26\/10272\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"
\ud83d\udcda Finished reading Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans<\/a><\/em> by Melanie Mitchell. This is an excellent introduction to the field that doesn\u2019t get too technical. Having read it, I\u2019m much less concerned about the near-term possibility of artificial general intelligence<\/a>, but much more<\/em> concerned about \u2018narrow\u2019 and \u2018brittle\u2019 AI systems being applied too broadly and failing in unexpected ways. For me, the most fascinating insight of the book was how all of our mental concepts as humans are based on analogies; the problems and exercises presented by the author had me smiling as she explained how people think about them.<\/p>\n

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\ud83d\udcda Finished reading Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans by Melanie Mitchell. This is an excellent introduction to the field that doesn\u2019t get too technical. Having read it, I\u2019m much less concerned about the near-term possibility of artificial general intelligence, but much more concerned about \u2018narrow\u2019 and \u2018brittle\u2019 AI systems being applied too broadly […]<\/div>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"status","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10272","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-status","6":"category-snippets","7":"post_format-post-format-status","8":"h-entry","10":"hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10316,"url":"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/2023\/08\/18\/10316\/","url_meta":{"origin":10272,"position":0},"title":"\ud83d\udcda Finished reading The Road\u2026","author":"Andrew Doran","date":"18 August 2023","format":"status","excerpt":"\ud83d\udcda Finished reading The Road to Conscious Machines by Michael Wooldridge. 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