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Our aspirations for AI once included the assumption that intelligence involved the ability to explain its own thought processes... Settling for "computer progr

Our aspirations for AI once included the assumption that intelligence involved the ability to explain its own thought processes... Settling for "computer programs with interesting output that don't know how they work but neither do we" seems like a step back. Many things are too complicated for us to parse without remotely approximating intelligence, like next month's weather.

kelseyfrog 4y ago
> Our aspirations for AI once included the assumption that intelligence involved the ability to explain its own thought processes Any idea who this idea traces back to? It would seem they were rather off the mark in their predictions.