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Steven Pinker: AI in the Age of Reason

Lex Fridman Podcast

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I Don't Think That All Powerful Systems Should Be Suddenly Implemented

The speaker cautions against the sudden implementation of untested, all-powerful systems, emphasizing the importance of a gradual and safe development process, similar to the culture of safety in engineering mindset for airplanes. They highlight the impressive progress in artificial intelligence over the last decade but dismiss the idea of an abrupt exponential leap in AI capabilities. The speaker argues that the current techniques, like deep learning, do not support the concept of sudden self-improvement and considers it as magical thinking not grounded in the actual workings of AI.

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