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#155 – Max Tegmark: AI and Physics

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Is There a Human Intuition in Chess?

The ability to see like 10, 15, sometimes 20 steps ahead was not a calculation that humans were performing. Can that be done in developing theorems? We know it can by neural networks because we did it with the neural networks in the craniums of the great mathematicians of humanity, right? And I'm so glad you brought up alpha zero because that's the counter example. It turned out we were flattering ourselves. The difference was no human told it's how good the position is. It just learned it. So combining the intuition with all these boot for-state capabilities, I think it's going to be able to help physics too.

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