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#306 – Oriol Vinyals: Deep Learning and Artificial General Intelligence

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Is There a Future Where Exciting Is Better Than Truth?

I would actually venture to say that excitement is easier to label than truth, or perhaps has lower consequences of failure. But there is perhaps the humanness that you mentioned. That's perhaps part of a thing that could be labeled and that could mean an AI system that's doing dialogue should be flawed. Maybe it also needs to have a strong sense of identity. And if it says something stupid and gets canceled on Twitter, that's the end of that system. So maybe that the high stakes nature of it, because you can't say anything stupid now, or because you'd be canceled on Twitter,. I don't know, there's all those elements somehow connect to a compelling conversation, and I

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