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#148 Kenneth Stanley: Set The Right Objectives

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

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Is It Ultimately Harmful to Just Try Something?

I think the field of AI is kind of like that. Like at some level there's like this really grandiose conception of like some human like computer. We don't know what the stepping stones are that lead to that although they're getting closer perhaps but they're still not close I would say. And so it's sort of a side effect of the fact that people have this kind of grandiose vision that a lot of interest has now focused in and we don't really know where those stepping stones lead. They may not lead to the human level but they do lead to interesting things that you have to distinguish which type of thing are we talking about.

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