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Published · transcript-backedGeorge Hotz: observation
30 Jun 2023 Lex Fridman Podcast #387 – George Hotz: Tiny Corp, Twitter, AI Safety, Self-Driving, GPT, AGI & God
“The problem is if you go back to 1960 and you tell them that you have a machine that can play amazing chess, of course someone in 1960 will tell you that machine is intelligent.”
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- George Hotz
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- observation
- Recorded
- 30 Jun 2023
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- Lex Fridman Podcast
Transcript context
…Because it’s very human. Listen, there is something different between chess and language. Chess is a game that a subset of population plays. Language is something we use nonstop for all of our human interaction and human interaction is fundamental to society. So holy shit, this language thing is not so difficult to create in the machine. The problem is if you go back to 1960 and you tell them that you have a machine that can play amazing chess, of course someone in 1960 will tell you that machine is intelligent. Someone in 2010 won’t. What’s changed? Today, we think that these machines that have language are intelligent, but I think in 20 years we’re going to be like, yeah, but can it reproduce? So reproduction. Yeah, we may redefine what it means to be… What is it? A high performance living organism on earth.…
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