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Artificial intelligence
- Mechanistic interpretabilityChris Olah coined the term mechanistic interpretability to describe reverse-engineering neural networks. Before this moment, researchers mostly looked at…
- Organoid intelligenceIn 2019, researchers at Johns Hopkins University began using the term organoid intelligence to describe a new field combining computer science and biology.
- AI safetyIn 1988, Blay Whitby published a book outlining the need for AI to be developed along ethical and socially responsible lines.
- AI alignmentAI alignment is the field dedicated to making artificial intelligence do what we actually want it to do. That distinction sounds obvious.
- Neuro-symbolic AIIn 1992, researchers began exploring how to merge fast intuition with slow reasoning. Gary Marcus stated that building rich cognitive models requires a…
- Nouvelle AINouvelle AI is an approach to artificial intelligence that Rodney Brooks pioneered in the 1980s at MIT's artificial intelligence laboratory.
- Artificial general intelligenceArtificial general intelligence, known as AGI, is the idea that a machine could one day match or surpass human capabilities across virtually every cognitive…
- Recursive self-improvementRecursive self-improvement is the idea that an artificial intelligence system could rewrite its own code, get smarter, and then use that new intelligence to…
- Artificial intelligenceIn 1965, Herbert Simon predicted that within twenty years machines would be capable of doing any work a man can do. Two years later, Marvin Minsky agreed…
- AI agentIn the context of generative artificial intelligence, AI agents are a class of intelligent agents distinguished by their ability to operate autonomously in…
- Game theoryGame theory is the study of mathematical models of strategic interactions, and it began with a question about what a rational person should do when someone…
- AI OverviewsGoogle unveiled Search Generative Experience at its I/O conference in May 2023. This event marked the first public appearance of what would become AI…
- Commonsense knowledge (artificial intelligence)Commonsense knowledge in artificial intelligence refers to the everyday facts that every person is assumed to know: things like "lemons are sour" or "cows…
- Machine perceptionMachine perception is the capability of a computer system to interpret data in a manner similar to the way humans use their senses.
- Progress in artificial intelligenceProgress in artificial intelligence is a subject that has a strange habit of disappearing just as it succeeds. A quote that circulates widely in the field…
- AI effectThe AI effect is a puzzle that has haunted artificial intelligence research since the field began. A machine beats a grandmaster at chess, and the world…