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Are we about to lose control of AI?

The Rational View podcast with Dr. Al Scott

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The Theory of Mind in Chat GPT

Dr. Michael Kaczynski, a computational psychologist at Stanford University, put earlier AI systems through their paces with standard psychological tests used on humans. His extraordinary conclusion is that a theory of mind seems to have been absent in AI systems until just last year when it spontaneously emerged in the leading AI systems. This level of understanding is not present in toddlers, for example, in young children. At certain ages, this theory of mind emerges in the neural network that's up here in our heads. Well, this has emerged in chat GPT.

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