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The solution must be co-evolved with the problem. (Or more precisely, with our understanding of the problem.)
If you are not making progress on a solution, look for new problems.
Complicated problems call for complicated solutions. Complicated solutions do not generalize and rarely scale. Ergo, prefer working on simple, abstract problems. Specifically: on the simpler, more abstract version of your problem.
If there is no solution, you have a metaproblem.
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François Chollet
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To all of Western society and liberal democracy
I've said this many times before, but the problem isn't social media as a product category, and it isn't ads as a business model. The problem is Facebook itself, its deeply toxic leadership and its deeply toxic social and political impact.
Perhaps with different leadership and a completely different company culture, Facebook could even be a good product. But as it exists now, it is not compatible with liberal democracy, and one of the two will have to give.
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François Chollet
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Pretty much everything wrong about our perception of AI technologies (among both researchers and the general public) boils down to excessive anthropomorphism.
AI is tricky; it emulates exactly the narrow set of human skills it is explicitly designed or trained to emulate, and none of the others.

In doing so, it takes every available shortcut, producing a system that has essentially no common ground with the human mind.
AI is effectively a cognitive cartoon -- superficially, it looks like it's alive, but it's really a sequence of crude sketches on paper that emulate human expressions/behavior.

As such, a project like Sophia the robot is really the epitome of contemporary AI.
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François Chollet
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I've just released a fairly lengthy paper on defining & measuring intelligence, as well as a new AI evaluation dataset, the "Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus". I've been working on this for the past 2 years, on & off.

Paper: arxiv.org/abs/1911.01547

ARC: github.com/fchollet/ARC
The paper contains:

1) A discussion of the history of how we've defined and evaluated AI so far

2) A new formal definition of intelligence + concrete guidelines for what a general AI benchmark should look like

3) A presentation of the goals of ARC and the logic behind it.
This definition is my attempt to formalize things I've been talking about for the past 10 years (in talks, conversations, on Twitter), into something useful and actionable. ARC itself has led me towards very interesting research directions, and I hope you will find it useful too.
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G. Elliott Morris
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Today's Applied Complexity Symposium begins with a panel on Computation and Complex Economies, feat. Rob Axtell, Joshua Epstein, @C4COMPUTATION, Blake LeBaron, John Miller, & @MelMitchell1

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We’ve just started our workshop on Contracts for Data Collaboration (#C4DC)! We open with a note about the need to identify the enabling conditions essential to #datacollaboration and build a community around it.
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A thread on things I took/learnt from @RayDalio's book "Principles" (~150 things)
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