François Chollet says string theory resembles a system hallucinating after being starved of sensory input, arguing intelligence needs grounding. He adds that intelligence is rarely the bottleneck on impactful problems, and that iterated contact with reality is.
String theory is what happens when an intelligent system is starved of sensory input and starts hallucinating. Intelligence needs grounding.
For this reason, intelligence is practically never the bottleneck to solving impactful problems. The bottleneck is iterated contact with reality.
Source: François Chollet · x.comPublished · added here
