Sam Altman

I think in the longer timelines, it's harder to have a slow takeoff.

There's a bunch of other problems, too.

But that's what we're trying to do.

Do you think GPT-4 is an AGI?

So I think that GPT-4, although quite impressive, is definitely not an AGI.

But isn't it remarkable we're having this debate?

I think we're getting into the phase where specific definitions of AGI really matter.

Or we just say, you know, I know it when I see it, and I'm not even going to bother with the definition.

Like, if I were reading a sci-fi book and there was a character that was an AGI and that character was GPT-4, I'd be like, well, this is a shitty book.

You know, that's not very cool.

Do you think GPT-4 is conscious?

How to fake consciousness?

I mean, look, you don't know, obviously, we can go to the freshman year dorm late at Saturday night kind of thing.

You don't know that you're not a GPT-4 rollout in some advanced simulation.

Yeah, yes.

So, if we're willing to go to that level, sure.

Maybe I can just share a few disconnected thoughts here.

But I'll tell you something that Ilya said to me once a long time ago that has stuck in my head.

Ilya Setsgever.

Yes, my co-founder and the chief scientist of OpenAI and sort of legend in the field.