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Re:AlphaCode as a dog speaking mediocre English by gspr on Sunday February 06, 2022 @09:59PM (#30239750)
While I echo some of these sentiments, I don't think they apply in the slightest to the author of the blog post this thread discusses.

Certainly a "real scientist" in every sense.

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Re:AlphaCode as a dog speaking mediocre English by qualudeheart on Monday February 07, 2022 @10:20AM (#30245990)
Aaronson doesn’t seem to believe in the scaling hypothesis like much of openAI and the Machine Intelligence Research Institute do.

That’s the only hypothesis that predicts something like AGI from emerging from even bigger language models.

Aaronson clearly isn’t expecting this tech to lead to AGI but that doesn’t make it not important.

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