{"id":155841,"date":"2023-01-20T01:23:17","date_gmt":"2023-01-20T07:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/connor-leahy-on-ai-progress-chimps-memes-and-markets"},"modified":"2023-01-20T01:23:17","modified_gmt":"2023-01-20T07:23:17","slug":"connor-leahy-on-ai-progress-chimps-memes-and-markets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/connor-leahy-on-ai-progress-chimps-memes-and-markets","title":{"rendered":"Connor Leahy on AI Progress, Chimps, Memes, and Markets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2RjuJzmafAA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Connor Leahy from Conjecture joins the podcast to discuss AI progress, chimps, memes, and markets. Learn more about Connor\u2019s work at <a href=\"https:\/\/conjecture.dev\">https:\/\/conjecture.dev<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Timestamps:<br \/> 00:00 Introduction.<br \/> 01:00 Defining artificial general intelligence.<br \/> 04:52 What makes humans more powerful than chimps?<br \/> 17:23 Would AIs have to be social to be intelligent?<br \/> 20:29 Importing humanity\u2019s memes into AIs.<br \/> 23:07 How do we measure progress in AI?<br \/> 42:39 Gut feelings about AI progress.<br \/> 47:29 Connor\u2019s predictions about AGI<br \/> 52:44 Is predicting AGI soon betting against the market?<br \/> 57:43 How accurate are prediction markets about AGI?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Connor Leahy from Conjecture joins the podcast to discuss AI progress, chimps, memes, and markets. Learn more about Connor\u2019s work at https:\/\/conjecture.dev. Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction. 01:00 Defining artificial general intelligence. 04:52 What makes humans more powerful than chimps? 17:23 Would AIs have to be social to be intelligent? 20:29 Importing humanity\u2019s memes into AIs. 23:07 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}