Dr. Jeff Beck

There's a lot of disagreement there.

That's just my take.

But it certainly has a lot of the features that we associate with associative cortex, right?

Wow, I just said three different uses of the word associate in that sentence.

But I think you see what I mean, right?

Yeah.

It was all about, like, taking old capabilities, right, combining, you know, simple models and modules to create something that was more complex.

And then over time, right, so that was what made the brain work, right?

It was all about taking little things that worked and combining them in new and different ways in order to evolve things.

effectively emergent properties, emergent computational abilities, and an emergent understanding of the world in which we live.

I do think that when we get to the point where we start really saying, oh, this is actually truly intelligent, it's going to have that feature.

It's going to have a modular description of the world, and it's going to have the ability to combine those modules in a way that creates a more sophisticated understanding.

It's like Legos, right?

The Lego bricks all connect in certain ways, and I can build all sorts of new and amazing things that were never built before out of them.

That's the capability that we have.

And that's the essence of creativity.

It's why I refer to systems engineering as the thing we really want our AI models to be able to do.

Yeah, I think that's absolutely correct.

Specialization is great.

In fact, I would argue that specialization is how we got all of this.