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Ben Goertzel: AGI is 5 Years Away!
Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal
The Importance of Consciousness
I think that the essence of what it is to experience to me is just imminent in everything and it does manifest itself differently in a human brain than in a microphone. I tend to think that you know this microphone has its own form of consciousness but there's still something to be gained by thinking a little bit about what is intelligence. But one thing that's very clear when thinking about this sort of definition of intelligence is humans are pretty damn stupid. Like we're very bad at optimizing arbitrary reward functions in computable environments. Running a 708 dimensional maze is very hard for us, which is not even formalize right? We learned to run a 2D maze, 3D maze, most people
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