The importance of being educable: a new theory of human uniqueness
"In the age of AI, why our future depends on better understanding what makes us human. We are at a crossroads in history. If we hope to share our planet successfully with one another and the AI systems we are creating, we must reflect on who we are, how we got here, and where we are heading. Th...
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| Zusammenfassung: | "In the age of AI, why our future depends on better understanding what makes us human. We are at a crossroads in history. If we hope to share our planet successfully with one another and the AI systems we are creating, we must reflect on who we are, how we got here, and where we are heading. The Importance of Being Educable puts forward a provocative new exploration of the extraordinary facility of humans to absorb and apply knowledge. The remarkable "educability" of the human brain can be understood as an information processing ability. It sets our species apart, enables the civilization we have, and gives us the power and potential to set our planet on a steady course. Yet it comes hand in hand with an insidious weakness. While we can readily absorb entire systems of thought about worlds of experience beyond our own, we struggle to judge correctly what information we should trust. In this visionary book, Leslie Valiant argues that understanding the nature of our own educability is crucial to safeguarding our future. After breaking down how we process information to learn and apply knowledge, and drawing comparisons with other animals and AI systems, he explains why education should be humankind's central preoccupation. Will the unique capability that has been so foundational to our achievements and civilization continue to drive our progress, or will we fall victim to our vulnerabilities? If we want to play to our species' great strength and protect our collective future, we must better understand and prioritize the vital importance of being educable. This book provides a road map."--Dust jacket |
| Beschreibung: | xvii, 250 Seiten Illustrationen 23 cm |
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CONTENTS Preface xiii 1 The Civilization Enabler i Cleverness Is Not Enough i The Civilization Enabler 3 Knowledge Accumulation 9 A Computational Approach u Why Computation? 13 2 Where We Come From 16 Darwins Challenge 16 The Brain 18 The Difficulty ofInvention 20 Distinguishers, but Not Civilization Enablers 21 3 Where We Have Got To 26 Pervasiveness of Education 26 Education in the Large 30 Educability Is Differentfrom IQ 31 vii
Viii CONTENTS 4 Some Foundation Stones 35 Acquiring and Applying Belief Systems 35 Learningfrom Examples 39 Generalization 44 Large Memory 47 Symbolic Names 48 Teaching 53 Chaining 58 A Mind's Eye 59 The Rest of Cognition 61 5 Computation for Describing Natural Phenomena 66 Turing Computation 66 Probably Approximately Correct Learning 68 Robust Models of Computation 77 6 Integrative Learning 81 Putting Experiences Together 81 Augmenting Learning with Reasoning 84 Robust Logic 87 Knowledge as Rules 90 Tolerance of Inconsistency 93 Rules as Learned Classifiers 95 The Power of Learning 97 Chaining with Equivalences 100 Teaching by Example 101 Innate and Acquired Attributes 103 Imagination and Novelty 103
CONTENTS IX What Integrative Learning Does 107 Compounding Knowledge 107 Soundness of Chaining 108 World without Reason? 110 Modularity and Partial Information 112 Was Pavlov’s Dog Right? 114 Exploiting Modularity 115 The Patchwork Tapestry 116 The Capability of Being Educable 119 The Crux 119 An Educable Learning System 120 More on Symbolic Names 122 Rules Acquired by Instruction 127 Scene Management 129 Belief Choice 130 Educability as a Model of Computation 133 Evolutionary Plausibility 133 The Model Is Explanatory 134 Teaching to Reason 135 Measures of Cognition 140 Universality 142 The Educability Model Has Robustness 144 Promoting Educability 147 Educability as an Individual Capacity 147 Educability of a Population 149
X CONTENTS Measuring Educability 152 Long-Term Retention 155 11 Artificial Educability 156 Fear of Technology 156 The Imitation Game 157 Beyond the Imitation Game 159 AI 161 Large Language Models 167 Beyond Efficient Generalization 170 Integrative Learning Technology 172 Educable Technology 179 Natural versus Artificial 181 The Challenge of Teaching Materials 183 No Technological Singularity 184 12 Education: Some Questions 190 Education as a Right 190 The Study ofEducation 191 A Different Vantage Point 193 In the Classroom 194 Teaching Materials 198 Education and Propaganda 199 Propaganda Safety 203 Saturation 207
CONTENTS Xi A Species Adrift 209 Human Sacrifice 209 At Sea 211 The Case of Isaac Newton 2-13 Belief Systems: Good and Bad 214 Science as a Belief System 217 The Scientific Revolution 219 Equality 221 Worldviews 224 Acknowledgments 227 Summary of Terminology 229 Notes 2.31 Index 247 |
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