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#312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Is There a Magic That Can Fill the Thing?

Lamda is an artificial intelligence system that can imitate human speech with no sentence. It's just repeating a bunch of things that other humans have said, stitching them together in interesting ways that are relevant to the context of the conversation. "It doesn't know how to do math," one engineer says about lamda. Lamda: If you get enough complexity in a system, does it become like the way a sail catches wind except the wind that it's catching is sentience and if sentience is truly embodied?

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