general intelligence
3 statements across 3 episodes · 0 bullish · 3 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Apr 25, 2023 by Noam Brown · across every show →
Everything said about general intelligence, oldest first
Apr 25, 2023 negative
The Turing test is no longer a useful measure for AI
“I think the Turing test is no longer really a useful measure the way it was intended to be. Certainly Just because we have bots that can, I wouldn't say they can pass the Turing test, but I mean, like they're getting close enough that it's no longer that usefu…”
Jun 11, 2024 bearish
Knoop: LLMs are high-dimensional memorization, not general intelligence
“Effectively what large language models do today is they are high dimensional memorization systems, right? They are trained on lots of training data. They're able to find and generalize patterns off of the training data that they're trained on and then apply th…”
Mar 20, 2026 bearish
Karpathy: Smarter AI models do not automatically gain broad societal capabilities for free
“The story is that we're getting a lot of the intelligence and capabilities in all the domains of society, like, for free as we get better and better models, and it's not, like, exactly fundamentally what's going on, and there's some blind spots, and some thing…”