Sam Harris
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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Yes, I know.
Were they witnessing Weimar?
No?
And what were your principal intellectual influences as a kid?
I mean, how did you find your path to computer science as a young person?
In Tel Aviv?
Yeah, yeah.
And your first language is Hebrew?
So, but the people who had just come from Heidelberg, your professors were speaking Hebrew at that point?
Hebrew.
Yeah, yeah.
Okay, so as I said, we spoke about your book of why last time where you talk about the importance of causal reasoning.
What's your current view of AI?
What has surprised you in recent years?
How close to causal reasoning are we achieving in the current crop of LLMs?
And I'm just wondering how you view progress at this point.
So you think the framework, the LLM deep learning framework, is a dead end with respect to AGI?
No, it's a step.
But does it require a fundamental breakthrough of the sort that we haven't had?
Absolutely, yes.