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Making Sense of Artificial Intelligence

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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Artificial Intelligence Is a Very Good Idea

In principle, of course, there's no in principle reason why we couldn't have an intelligence that operated completely differently from the way human children learn. But at the moment, the best case we have is a four year old and we're very, very, very far from being able to simulate that. We should remind people how alarmingly powerful it is in narrow cases. When you extrapolate that kind of process to anything else we could conceivably care about - like recognition of emotion in the human face and voice. Once that solution is found, you're never talking about human level intelligence. It's always superhuman.

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