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Can AI Learn How to Search?

Part 5 of AI Beyond the Model. Part 4 introduces the specialist-building system. In the previous article, I imagined a general model that discovers repetitive tasks, creates specialized components, and coordinates them. That still leaves one of the deepest questions from my August discussion unanswered: who designed the space in which the system searches for solutions? Choosing among existing models is one kind of intelligence. Training a new model for a specified task is another.