I found Scott Alexander's take on this fairly convincing. Essentially if you master language you get broadly generalizable insights across domains. https://sla

I found Scott Alexander's take on this fairly convincing. Essentially if you master language you get broadly generalizable insights across domains. https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/02/19/gpt-2-as-step-toward-general-intelligence/ https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/02/19/gpt-2-as-step-toward-g... If you think of intelligence as distilling the essence of the universe around you and building on top of that, at least the former starts to sound like really really really sophisticated compression.