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The AI Revolution Could Be Bigger and Weirder Than We Can Imagine

Plain English with Derek Thompson

CHAPTER

What Does It Mean for an AI to Understand?

CNN's John Sutter talks with Melanie Mitchell at the Santa Fe Institute. She says there is disagreement over what it means for an AI to understand. Some believe that if GPT-4 can ace or get very close to acing the SATs, then it means it has even synthetically an understanding. But true understanding is not just making inferences, it's having life experiences and feeling temperature changes.

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