Human intelligence combines perception and intuition with explicit reasoning, using continuous (value-centric) and discrete (program-centric) abstraction in an interwoven way at every level; to achieve truly general AI, both forms of abstraction must be leveraged together, as focusing only on one hemisphere leaves the field incomplete.

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François Chollet

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human intelligence results from uh uh these two kinds of abstractions that are enmeshed, that are supporting each other.

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Francois Chollet | Why abstraction is the key to intelligence, and what we’re still missingHarvard CMSA
Created: 8/12/2026, 6:07:58 PM

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