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Interview With OpenAI's Sam Altman

         

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9:55 am on Jan 6, 2025 (gmt 0)

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In an interview with OpenAI's Sam Altman, he talks about a wide range of issues. including AI Safety, AGI, and many others. If you have even a peripheral interest in this it's well worth a read.

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9:39 pm on Jan 8, 2025 (gmt 0)

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Altman on AGI:

The very rough way I try to think about it is when an AI system can do what very skilled humans in important jobs can do—I’d call that AGI. There’s then a bunch of follow-on questions like, well, is it the full job or only part of it? Can it start as a computer program and decide it wants to become a doctor? Can it do what the best people in the field can do or the 98th percentile? How autonomous is it? I don’t have deep, precise answers there yet, but if you could hire an AI as a remote employee to be a great software engineer, I think a lot of people would say, “OK, that’s AGI-ish.”


It's a philosophical riddle:

What's the difference between:

a) AGI-as-conventionally-defined; and
b) a piece of software which, to the end user, is indiscernible from AGI-as-conventionally-defined?