It's Called Artificial Intelligence—but What Is Intelligence?

Elizabeth Spelke, a cognitive psychologist at Harvard, has spent her career testing the world’s most sophisticated learning system—the mind of a baby. After playing thousands of games against itself at hyperspeed, and learning from winning positions, AlphaZero independently discovered several famous chess strategies and even invented new ones. “What makes human intelligence special is its adaptability—its power to generalize to never-seen-before situations,” says François Chollet, a well-known AI engineer and the creator of Keras, a widely used framework for deep learning. That's a very different capability.” Chollet posed a set of problems designed to test an AI program's ability to learn in a more generalized way. Keep Reading The latest on artificial intelligence, from machine learning to computer vision and more Josh Tenenbaum, a professor in MIT's Center for Brains, Minds & Machines, works closely with Spelke and uses insights from cognitive science as inspiration for his programs.