Aguera y Arcas: Foundation models reflect collective human intelligence
Blaise Aguera y Arcas · Fantasy and Fact: AI, Sentience and The Dangers Of Hype, from World Summit AI · Nov 9, 2022 · at 26:12
Blaise Aguera y Arcas (VP and Fellow at Google Research) explains why AI systems and foundation models should be viewed as products of collective cultural evolution.
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“Locating the spiritual element, or the, or intelligence, or any of these kind of things in the individual alone, and not thinking about that as a broader collective thing, I think is the root of a lot of cognitive dissonance. And from that perspective, you know, when we do things like build foundation models, you know, it's not really separate from the intelligence that we have collectively and that we experience.”
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