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If we roll the clock back to the 2010s, the AI debate was maybe framed by the two canonical books that framed it.
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There was the Bostonramm book, super intelligence 2014, where AI was going to be this superhuman, super duper
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intelligent thing. And then um the anti-Bostrom book was the Kyu Lee 2018 AI superpowers. Think of the CCP
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rebuttal to Bostonramm where basically AI was going to be surveillance tech face recognition and China was going to
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win because they had no qualms about applying this technology. If we now think about what actually happened,
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let's say with the LLM and and chat GPT, it was really neither of those two. And
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it was this in between thing, which was actually what people would have defined AI as for the previous 60 or 70 years,
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which is passing the touring test, which is, you know, a somewhat fuzzy line. It's a computer that can pretend to be a
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human or that can fool you into thinking it's a human. Chat GPT passed it. And that seems very significant.