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Novelist Benjamín Labatut argues the AI industry's focus on superintelligence fails to address fundamental questions of human complexity

He reflected on conversations with DeepMind co-founder Demis Hassabis.

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jasmine sun@jasminewsun#1237inAI

An honor to interview the novelist Benjamín Labatut about Von Neumann, his conversations with Demis, and what the AI industry misses —

"Literature tries to weave the rainbow back together. It involves irrationality; it involves all of those things that science has, by its own method, left out. Literature presents a messier, darker, and perhaps more complete, if less powerful, perspective on the world."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8rLRIhDS-Y&t=12s

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@jasminewsun Almost as if literature would make a good subject for a benchmark that tests the limits of LLM capabilities.

Gee, someone should work on something like that.

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James Cham@jamescham

@jasminewsun That is so cool!

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