Intuition vs Thinking

A few weeks a ago the CEO of deepmind was giving a talk at YC and he mentioned that he plays chess with the latest models.

One interesting insight from playing chess with models is how our (human) minds have the ability to shortcut problems via intuition, whereas an AI needs to think, and think hard, about how to get there.

I’ve thought this for a while, but there are hints that what our minds do is very different than just produce words, but somehow we are able to very quickly produce actions that are out of distribution but directionally correct. There are many areas of life like this, but it’s worth considering vs listening to the AI doomers talk about how the AI will get better than us at everything because not everything is thinking in words.