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François Chollet argues that intelligence is rarely the bottleneck to solving impactful problems — grounded, iterated contact with reality is — comparing ungrounded theorizing to an intelligent system hallucinating due to lack of sensory input, as echoed by Elon Musk.
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François Chollet (@fchollet): String theory is what happens when an intelligent system is starved of sensory input and starts hallucinating. Intelligence needs grounding.
For this reason, intelligence is practically never the bottleneck to solving impactful problems. The bottleneck is iterated contact with
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