"Applying sound methods to stupid projects"

Adam remains one of the most engaging writers in my feed. This post covers a lot of ground, but it does a great job of highlighting that while AI has been developing fast along one axis, there's another branch of intelligence that our current methods still haven't conjured. This is is one reason skeptics think the approach most frontier labs are pursuing is unlikely to lead to Artificial General Intelligence (or the Singularity, or Superintelligence, or whichever label and loose definition you prefer). Here’s what I highlighted: Some problems have clear boundaries and verifiable solutions, like “What’s the cube root of 38,126?”. These problems require objective intelligence. Other problems are vague and squishy and it’s not clear whether you’ve solved them, or whether they exist at all, like “How do I live a good life?”. These problems require subjective intelligence. Objective intelligence can be trained, reinforced, and validated. Subjective intelligence cannot. It’s unfortunate…