Focus on Learning Not On Knowledge
Blog: For Practitioners by Practitioners!
Peter Voss lists “Focus on Knowledge, Not Learning” as one of The 7 Deadly Sins of AGI Design: “There’s a common misconception that knowledge is a good measure of intelligence. This is not so. An encyclopedia has a lot of knowledge but no intelligence. We also all know people who are quite knowledgeable but seem to lack in intelligence. On the other hand, we know of Bushmen in Africa who grew up not knowing books, electricity, or cars and yet able to learn to succeed in a large modern city within a short period of time.
AI development over the past several decades has focused far too much on having knowledge and skills rather than the ability to dynamically acquire, integrate, and generalize new knowledge and skills effectively. Large Language Models in particular are quite unable to update their core model in real time.” Link
