<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:proxima-nova,sans-serif;font-size:20px;line-height:26px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:26px">"Indeed, some AI researchers maintain a close link with the <a href="https://singularityhub.com/2018/08/14/amazing-map-of-every-synapse-in-the-mouse-brain-points-to-the-roots-of-thinking/" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(237,102,41);text-decoration-line:none">neuroscience</a>community, and inspiration runs in both directions. But the metaphor can be a hindrance to people trying to explain machine learning to those less familiar with it. One of the biggest risks of conflating human and machine intelligence is that we start to hand over too much agency to machines. For those of us working with software, it’s essential that we remember the agency is human—it’s humans who build these systems, after all.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:proxima-nova,sans-serif;font-size:20px;line-height:26px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:26px">It’s worth unpacking the key differences between machine and human intelligence. While there are certainly similarities, it’s by looking at what makes them different that we can better grasp how <a href="https://singularityhub.com/2018/07/22/from-here-to-human-level-artificial-general-intelligence-in-four-not-all-that-simple-steps/" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(237,102,41);text-decoration-line:none">artificial intelligence</a> works, and how we can build and use it effectively."</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;line-height:26px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:26px"><font size="4"><a href="https://singularityhub.com/2018/10/19/why-we-should-stop-conflating-human-and-machine-intelligence/">https://singularityhub.com/2018/10/19/why-we-should-stop-conflating-human-and-machine-intelligence/</a></font><br></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:proxima-nova,sans-serif;font-size:20px;line-height:26px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:26px"><br></p></div></div></div>