Max Tegmark
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Just basically what we're talking about is instead of having a narrow AI like ChatGPT or like Clearview AI facial recognition or whatever, you're talking about a system that is flexible, able to go across domains.
Again, people are like, well, that doesn't exist.
Why is that a problem?
Why should you mobilize any political will to mitigate that or super intelligence if they're just dreams?
The Center for AI Safety and other companies like that do, organizations like that, they evaluate these systems systematically to see what their capabilities actually are.
And what they found with GPT, for instance, GPT-5 versus 4, even if it wasn't the huge media splash and sensation that people would have thought it would be,
The increases in the system's ability to read and write, to perform mathematical calculations, to reason, it's working memory, it's visual recognition, it's auditory recognition.
All of those have expanded, some of them dramatically.
The point I'm making is, yes, AGI is at present just a dream and artificial super intelligence.
Well, then, if we just go with vision, the difference between this and many other technological visions is that this is a vision that is materializing.
And there's objective data to show that this is a vision that is materializing.
Go to at J-O-E-B-O-T-X-Y-Z on X and get her.
As long as I'm on X, I may be locked out very soon.
Or my website, joebot.xyz.
I've got a big lecture circuit coming up beginning on Friday.
It's right at the top.
Where are you going Friday?
Friday, I will be in Fort Myers, Florida, with the Florida Citizens Alliance.