Quanta podcast probes AI reasoning with Melanie Mitchell
Melanie Mitchell argues current methods lack adequate measures for machine cognition, calling AI an "alien intelligence" that operates through non-human cognitive mechanisms. She proposes adapting psychologists' methods for studying babies and animals, and lays out six principles for better assessing machine cognition.
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