What is intelligence? Dante in an age of AI

Dante's imagery, particularly in the Paradiso, offers powerful prompts to developing the sense of what it is to be intelligent. He wrote for modern times, he said. And now, as AI becomes more pervasive, he can help us understand how machine learning and human intuitions are very different capacities. This was part of a talk given at the Scientific and Medical Network - https://scientificandmedical.net/webinars/ For more on Mark's work, particularly on Dante, see www.markvernon.com