#407 – Guillaume Verdon: Beff Jezos, E/acc Movement, Physics, Computation & AGI
Lex Fridman Podcast
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Exploring Beyond Human-Centric AI
The term 'AGI' is criticized for being anthropocentric, as it refers to human-like intelligence. The speaker's career focuses on exploring intelligence beyond what a biological brain can achieve, such as quantum form of intelligence and systems with quantum entanglement. They believe that the space of intelligence inspired by physics is vast and that human intelligence is just a point in a much larger potential space of intelligences. Drawing a parallel to the shift from geocentrism to heliocentrism in astronomy, the speaker suggests that letting go of the anthropocentric view of AI can lead to exploring a wider space of intelligences, which could greatly benefit human well-being and the advancement of civilization.
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