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A basic case for accelerating conceptual reasoning capabilities

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Outline · 170 paragraphs

  1. Introduction¶1
  2. Overview¶6
  3. It’s important how soon AI is good at conceptual reasoning¶26
  4. Important challenges need conceptual reasoning¶27
  5. AI R&D and takeover rely much less on conceptual reasoning¶62
  6. AI being better at conceptual reasoning earlier would be very valuable¶85
  7. We can probably differentially accelerate conceptual reasoning¶94
  8. Work on conceptual reasoning is likely counterfactual and tractable¶95
  9. Effects on generic capabilities are likely small¶102
  10. Counterpoint: Using our datasets to develop generic techniques¶107
  11. Our work¶111
  12. Acknowledgements¶118
  13. Appendix: Examples and non-examples of conceptual domains¶120
  14. Appendix: is ML bottlenecked by conceptual insights?¶137