Book Description: "What Is Intelligence?" - MIT Press Publication on AI and Neural Networks
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This appears to be a book description for "What Is Intelligence?" published by MIT Press, discussing how large neural networks that predict next words have unexpectedly produced systems with general intelligence, surprising some AI researchers. The content includes publication details like ISBN, publication date, page count, and illustrations.
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· 5 pulledIt has come as a shock to some AI researchers that a large neural net that predicts next words seems to produce a system with general intelligence.
Paperback ISBN: 9780262049955
Publisher: The MIT Press
624 pp., 5 x 8 in, 38 b&w illus.
Pub date: September 23, 2025
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