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The speaker says Geoffrey Hinton once used AI's ability to tell a funny joke as an internal benchmark.

Thomas Larsen · AI 2040: Plan A report - Daniel Kokotajlo & Thomas Larsen · 8 Sep 2026

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“And then sort of like the AIs have just like I think, you know, Joffrey Hinton,”
“one of the godfathers of AI,”
“I think he said once like like wasn't able to tell a funny joke was sort of his internal benchmark.”
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