...LEX: Is there a way to measure general intelligence? I mean, I could ask that question in a million ways but basically, will you know it when you see it? It being in an AGI system?
YUD: Heh. If you boil a frog gradually enough, if you zoom in far enough, it's always hard to tell around the edges. GPT-4, people are saying right now, "Like, this looks to us like a spark of general intelligence. It is like able to do all these things it was not explicitly optimized for." Other people are being like, "No its too early, its like, like fifty years off." And you k
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