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What, if anything, do AIs understand? (with ChatGPT Co-Creator Ilya Sutskever)

Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

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Two ways to define intelligence and the history of AI advancements

Intelligence can be defined in a few ways, but let's focus on what humans can do. If computers can perform those same tasks, they are intelligent. Trying to formally define intelligence is less useful. It's fascinating how computers have been able to accomplish tasks that were once thought impossible. It seems that more tasks are narrow than people realize. Our intuitions about intelligence are not perfect, as evidenced by the examples mentioned.

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