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Lex Fridman: belief

2 Aug 2024 Lex Fridman Podcast #438 – Elon Musk: Neuralink and the Future of Humanity

“I think what AGI is is when it’s smarter than the collective intelligence of the entire human species in our [inaudible 00:52:49].”

— Lex Fridman

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Lex Fridman
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belief
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2 Aug 2024
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Lex Fridman Podcast

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…Oh, yeah. I think what AGI is is when it’s smarter than the collective intelligence of the entire human species in our [inaudible 00:52:49]. Well, I think that, generally, people would call that ASI, artificial super intelligence. But there are these thresholds where you could say at some point the AI is smarter than any single human. And then, you’ve got eight billion humans, and actually, each human is machine augmented via their computers. So, it’s a much higher bar to compete with eight billion machine augmented humans. That’s a whole bunch of orders of magnitude more. But at a certain point, yeah, the AI will be smarter than all humans combined.…

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