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People once treated AI's ability to solve chess as evidence of true intelligence, but after AI achieved it, they dismissed the achievement as merely algorithmic.
Scott Alexander · AI 2027: month-by-month model of intelligence explosion — Scott Alexander & Daniel Kokotajlo · 3 Apr 2025
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“So for example, people used to think that AI would surely be truly intelligent if it solved chess and then it solved chess and you're like, no,”
“that's just algorithms.”1:27:55Report a misattribution
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