AI Researchers Debate Whether Intelligence Lives in Societies of Models
Blaise Aguera y Arcas argued that human intelligence resides mostly at the societal level and that today's strongest AI likewise operates as a 'society of models.' Thomas Dietterich pushed back, saying the multi-agent analogy fails because even a thousand copies of a model cannot replicate society's collaborative intelligence.
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