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#312 - The Trouble with AI

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Importance of Reasoning in AI

We're in an AI paradigm right now where we don't do much reasoning. So when chat GBT decides so to speak whether or not to say a particular thing, it's not really reasoning over the principles. You need a diffeasible reasoning system just like we need for almost anything else. I can conceive of a scenario in which we build self-improving machines and the values drift. One thing that I cannot conceive of is a truly general intelligent system that could not represent values, could not reason about values, and actually would turn us into paper clips.

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