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Will AI destroy civilization in the near future? (with Connor Leahy)

Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

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The Unbroken Chain of Human Reasoning Explains Why It Works

In a hypothetical co-amp system, you can ask it to write your program. But in addition to this, you get a trace of what was thought and why. This is not the same as a narrative story; GPT-4 does not have access to its own internal cognition. It itself doesn't know why it makes the decisions it makes. Is it possible to do science this way? Yes, I think so. If you were like a hive mind species or like an alien species where every time you reproduce the children inherit all the memories then yeah, I think you could probably do crazy leaps of logic that are completely make no sense to human and cannot be taught.

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