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The Shape of Intelligence

Reading view · eight chapters

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How did our methods for making machines behave intelligently change, and what did each method leave unresolved?

  1. I

    The question

    What did people mean when they imagined a thinking machine?

  2. II

    The rules

    How far could explicitly programmed reasoning take us?

  3. III

    The promise

    Why did expectations repeatedly outrun results?

  4. IV

    The examples

    What changed when machines learned from data?

  5. V

    The scale

    What became possible when methods, computing and datasets converged?

  6. VI

    The context

    How did attention and transformers change the picture?

  7. VII

    The interface

    What happens when people can converse with generative systems?

  8. VIII

    The choices

    Which decisions about AI still belong to us?