Facianating write-up on math and humans who moved it forward!
Boy I wish math and other disciplines were thought trough more of human stories. Who, how and why discovered those things. That would make so much difference instead of that distilled dry way of standertized teaching we have… So misguided…
You threw me off though in last paragraph. We are full of limitations. We need to sleep and otherwise take rest. Our perception is very selective and we are full of those localised algorithms tuned to being efficient for our cave man past and often failing in our modern context… I obviously speak about biases.
Then you are correct that current AI are tuned for specific tasks in specific contexts but if done without human knowledge hard-coded they are starting to find very novel solutions humans did not knew about. But still they are local, not general.
But even that is being tackled. Check this out. One of problems of current algorithms that they are driven by external motivators in firm of rewards and punishment scores. But here they introduced an intristic motivator in form of curiosity towards ability to predict outcomes of one’s actions with promising results.