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#116 — AI: Racing Toward the Brink

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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Is There a Continuum of Intelligence?

What you're gesturing at here is a continuum of intelligence that i think most people never think about. And because they don't think about it, that they have a default doubt that it exists. As you ramp up in inte gence, whatever it is, at the level of information processing, spaces of inquiry and ideation and experience begin to open up - and we can't necessarily predict what they would be from where we sit. For alpa go to play better go than the best human go players, it must be the case that the best humanGo players cannot predict exactly where on the go board alpago will play. If they could predict exactly where alpago would

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