Contributors to Pennachin and Goertzel (2007b) outlined a number of potential reasons for the dearth of AGI research, one of them being that “a great number of researchers reject the validity or importance of ‘general intelligence.’ For man…We thank Alexander Thomas, Beth Singler, Douglas Rushkoff, Emily M. Bender, Jacob Metclaf, Jenna Burrell, Katherine Heller, Keira Havens, Remmelt Ellen, Samy Bengio, Syed Mustafa Ali, Nicholas Rodelo, and the anonymous reviewers for First M…
Pennachin
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Pennachin appears primarily as co-author of a foundational work on artificial general intelligence (AGI) research, specifically examining why the field remains underdeveloped despite decades of effort. The readings invoke Pennachin and Goertzel's analysis to frame debates about whether "general intelligence" is a coherent scientific target, using their work to historicize current anxieties about AI's scope and ambitions. This reference anchors the course's critical genealogy of how researchers have conceptualized and pursued machine intelligence at different scales.
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