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"A lot of AI research is about a kind of teaching-to-the-test." Insightful talk with Ted Chiang, sci-fi author and guest speaker to upcoming #ICLR2022 workshop, on #optimization, #intelligence, and the animal kingdom. @iclr_conf 1/4
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"Most things that people deal with – the outcomes that we want – cannot be captured by an optimization function. Trying to view things as optimization problems is very often the wrong way to look at it." 2/4

"The endless capacity for expression is a big part of what enables collective learning – the ever growing sophistication of culture among humans." 3/4

"I could imagine that in a simplified communication mechanism, you could create a sort of society of AI agents that did exhibit collective learning in the ways that we see in troops of monkeys and things like that." 4/4

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