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People once proposed philosophical ability as a test of AI's true intelligence, but when AI produced philosophical discourse, they dismissed it as algorithmic.
Scott Alexander · AI 2027: month-by-month model of intelligence explosion — Scott Alexander & Daniel Kokotajlo · 3 Apr 2025
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“And then they said, well, maybe it would be truly intelligent if it could do philosophy and then it could write philosophical discourse and be like,”
“no, we just understand those are algorithms.”Play from 1:28:03Report a misattribution
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