A Brief History of Intelligence
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A Brief History of Intelligence
| Full title | A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains |
|---|---|
| Author | Max Bennett |
| Published | 2023 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Max Bennett reads the brain’s 600-million-year evolution as five breakthroughs — steering, reinforcement learning, simulation, mentalising and language — each a computational problem natural selection solved, then asks which ones today’s AI has and hasn’t reproduced. A single frame that carries both evolutionary neuroscience and the AI question. |
A Brief History of Intelligence
Where I heard about it
- Michael Mauboussin — one of his favourite books of 2024, posted December 2024.
Connections
- Evolution · Neuroscience — the two halves of the book’s historical argument.
- Large Language Models — the contemporary systems Bennett measures the five breakthroughs against.
- Michael Mauboussin — the curator whose 2024 list this came from.
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.