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Building a Model of Reality and the Messiness of Intelligence
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21:46 - 31:58 (10:12)

The process of creating a model of reality involves simplifying reality to predict what will happen in the world. However, intelligence is inherently messy and imperfect, making it difficult to apply perfect compression to the task of intelligence such as predicting the next word in AI models like GPT.

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The subjective experience is fundamentally about storytelling and serves as a simpler abstraction of raw sensory information to create a useful entity in the world.
21:46 - 24:18 (02:32)
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Subjective Experience
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The subjective experience is fundamentally about storytelling and serves as a simpler abstraction of raw sensory information to create a useful entity in the world.

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Building a Model of Reality and the Messiness of Intelligence
Episode
#215 – Wojciech Zaremba: OpenAI Codex, GPT-3, Robotics, and the Future of AI
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Lex Fridman Podcast
The speaker discusses the purpose of AI models like GPT, which aim to predict the next word in a sentence.
24:20 - 28:37 (04:17)
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AI, Philosophy, Consciousness
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The speaker discusses the purpose of AI models like GPT, which aim to predict the next word in a sentence. They also reflect on the philosophy of consciousness and Stephen Hawking's question about the nature of mathematical equations in the universe.

Chapter
Building a Model of Reality and the Messiness of Intelligence
Episode
#215 – Wojciech Zaremba: OpenAI Codex, GPT-3, Robotics, and the Future of AI
Podcast
Lex Fridman Podcast
The belief that consciousness has to do with compression suggests that as things are compressed, eventually it makes sense for the compressor to compress itself.
28:40 - 31:58 (03:18)
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Consciousness
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The belief that consciousness has to do with compression suggests that as things are compressed, eventually it makes sense for the compressor to compress itself.

Chapter
Building a Model of Reality and the Messiness of Intelligence
Episode
#215 – Wojciech Zaremba: OpenAI Codex, GPT-3, Robotics, and the Future of AI
Podcast
Lex Fridman Podcast