What has and has not changed in the AI since the ChatGPT revolution? [Video]
Video of a new talk
Here’s the video (well-produced by Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST) of a talk I gave on Friday, as a keynote at AGI-Summit 24.
Clips of the talk have already been well-received. Here’s the whole thing:
There is also an audio only version, here.
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Ben Goertzel, one of the coiners of the term AGI (artificial general intelligence) convened the conference and the talk, and wrote a commentary on X, most of which I squeezed into this screenshot. Interesting to see where his take and mine differ:
My thoughts on regulation are of course coming soon, in my next book (Taming Silicon Valley, now available for pre-order). As for whether there is an AI winter coming, time will tell. At the very least, I foresee a significant reframing of expectations. And no, GPT-5 did not drop this week as many had hoped.
Gary Marcus greets everyone from the San Juan Islands.
Hi Gary, nice talk! And, interesting points of diff between you and Ben, a la AGI.
We humans (and other animals) are analog embodied, including with chemical reactions that happen in brains :) Our body-oriented accumulated experiences and memories make us 'human'. HLAGI seems improbable without a similar architecture (eg 'embodied' LLMs absolutely don't/can't cut it!).
Expectations of human-level AGI don't need to be reframed, but expectations of timescales do, especially if you want human-level-or-above AGI to be robustly aligned with human values.