Zaremba: Humans are proof of concept that AGI is doable
Wojciech Zaremba · An AI Primer with Wojciech Zaremba · Y Combinator · May 17, 2017 · at 45:05
OpenAI co-founder Wojciech Zaremba explains the theoretical basis for why Artificial General Intelligence is achievable.
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“So how we know that it's even doable? Because we, ah, there is an example of a creature that has such a property.”
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