Professor Gary Marcus

And what you're seeing with ChatGPT is, you know, it's the famous Turing test, right?

Alan Turing proposed this in the 40s, this idea that if you can talk to an AI in natural language and you can bring up any subject and you can't even tell if you're talking to a human or a bot, which you used to kind of be able to tell.

And now the only reason you can tell is because they programmed it to act like an AI.

But if somebody goes and programs it to pretend to be a human, they've done tests where they do that and you really can't tell.

This was a famous test.

I didn't think the Turing test was going to fall in my lifetime.

And now there's been studies to show like, nope, we're past the Turing test now.

This is such a brave new world where we're past the Turing test, watching the AI, the meter evaluation, where the AI is getting better than humans at every single task.

And the time horizon is going up at a rate of like faster than doubling every year.

It's about to do things that humans can do in a whole year.

It's about to be able to grind through that in who knows how little, like a day, and then what's it going to do the rest of the year?

It's going to do superhuman amounts of work in a single data center, and this is just all happening soon.

So yeah, brave new world.

No, very much techno-optimist.

And this really cuts against some people's assumptions about AI doomers.

I've never suffered from depression.

I've never been a pessimistic guy.

I've loved technology my whole life.

If you ask me about self-driving cars or virtual reality, I'm like, yep, that's great.

I love that.