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Lex Fridman: belief

2 Jun 2024 Lex Fridman Podcast #431 – Roman Yampolskiy: Dangers of Superintelligent AI

“Then you would extend that to maybe a very long conversation. I think the Alexa Prize was doing that.”

— Lex Fridman

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Lex Fridman
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belief
Recorded
2 Jun 2024
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Lex Fridman Podcast

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…I’m old-fashioned. I like Turing tests. I have a paper where I equate passing Turing tests to solving AI complete problems because you can encode any questions about any domain into the Turing test. You don’t have to talk about how was your day. You can ask anything. So the system has to be as smart as a human to pass it in a true sense. Then you would extend that to maybe a very long conversation. I think the Alexa Prize was doing that. Basically, can you do a 20 minute, 30 minute conversation with an AI system? It has to be long enough to where you can make some meaningful decisions about capabilities, absolutely. You can brute force very short conversations.…

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