Is the Turing Test Legitimate?

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It's a fictional narrative about the team that kind of first cracks AGI or to some extent it definitely like, you know, they start over a weekend with like put on a mechanical and like let it make $500,000 a day performing thousands of mechanical turk jobs in parallel. They were previously only humanizable but are now doable by this AI that was this can train itself. And then the snowball just goes on from there like they start media companies and I mean, articles and blogs and texts and videos like all sort of benevolently optimized for people. Yeah, that's when you start to get into a little bit of the some of the scary scenarios.

Topics:

(5:29) - Max’s background and career

(14:15) - Is it reasonable to use Neural Net, Deep Learning and Machine learning interchangeably?

(26:37) - The Future of AI

(39:18) - Google & AI Writing

(49:42) - Hiring AI for help in our personal lives

(55:02) - How Improvements in Robotics will massively push things forward

(57:12) - Computers being able to smell and taste

(1:04:56) - Scarier futures of AI

(1:08:13) - Is there a new field of opportunities you’re paying attention to now in Computer Vision?

(1:16:03) - Prompt Engineering

(1:24:54) - Final recap