Ugh:<p><pre><code> The process might be akin to a chess-playing AI playing a million games to learn optimal strategies, Subbarao Kambhampati, a computer scientist at Arizona State University, told me. Or perhaps a rat that, having run 10,000 mazes, develops a good strategy for choosing among forking paths and doubling back at dead ends.
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Lab rats don’t run 10,000 mazes! They don’t live nearly long enough for that. They run less than a dozen, and seem to have a good strategy “baked in” as part of their spatial reasoning abilities. What Wong is really saying here is that o1 is like a very slow and stupid rat which cannot actually reason about anything.<p>The way AI constantly ignores and trivializes animal intelligence - a trend dating all the way back to Alan Turing - is in my view the root cause of AI winters, including the one coming in the next year or so. Investors don’t want to ask “is this thing actually smarter than a fish?” and executives don’t want to know the answer.