Lex Fridman: belief

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…They are saying they’re building super intelligence and have a Super Alignment Team. You don’t think they’re trying to create a system smart enough to be an independent agent? Under that definition? I have not seen evidence of it. I think a lot of it is a marketing kind of discussion about the future and it’s a mission about the kind of systems we can create in the long term future. But in the short term, the kind of systems they’re creating falls fully within the definition of narrow AI. These are tools that have increasing capabilities, but they just don’t have a sense of agency, or consciousness, or self-awareness or ability to deceive at scales that would be required to do mass scale suffering and murder of humans. Those systems are well beyond narrow AI. If you had to list all the capabilities of GPT-4, you would spend a lot of time writing that list.…

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