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Science is learning from start-ups (with Adam Marblestone)

Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

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AI and Theorem Proving

Theory proving has been around for a really long time but it seems like a big bottleneck of theorem proving is that how do you generate the idea for the next step in the proof. Conrad courting and some colleagues have proposed called a system two recommender which is to say your sort of higher level planning and reasoning longer term thinking or something in this kind of very colloquial sense. Is there a way to make recommender systems that are actually optimizing for what you will want or what you would want upon reflection or what you yourself 10 years from now would have wanted to you to do now? That's another area where we're thinking about sort of beneficial AI projects.

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