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What, if anything, do AIs understand? (with ChatGPT Co-Creator Ilya Sutskever)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
The Importance of Causation in AI
Ilya: I think one of the biggest concerns that I have personally is that there will end up being a race as we get closer. Are you optimistic that as AI's get more and more capable that the top groups really will work together instead of filling in competition with each other? He says he doesn't put too much back in evidential decision theory because it doesn't perform well in some of the weird philosophical thought experiments. Ilya: Causation is an element of a model, so when you're trying to make the world different than it would have been had we not existed, then you automatically are concerned about causality.
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