To Test AI, Look at How We Study Babies and Animals

To Test AI, Look at How We Study Babies and Animals

When people want a clear-eyed take on the state of artificial intelligence and what it all means, they tend to turn to Melanie Mitchell, a computer scientist and a professor at the Santa Fe Institute. Her 2019 book, Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans, helped define the modern conversation about what today’s AI systems can and can’t do. Melanie MitchellToday at NeurIPS, the year’s biggest gathering of AI professionals, she gave …