how far along is AI in its life again if we’re anthropomorphizing here uh is it a child is it an adolescent where is it um it’s more like a toddler maybe like a three-year-old let’s imagine that we’re in that gangly awkward teenager phase of of AI what what happens next there’s a huge debate whether AI is a toddler or an adolescent today the question is how far can it go how much can it learn and perhaps most important will it catch up to us humans for Jeffrey Hinton it’s a matter of when not if does that mean that uh generative artificial intelligence will be able to do whatever humans can do is there anything that it cannot do that we humans can do yes who think people work a completely different way and they’re wrong they never managed to produce stuff that works nearly as well as these big language models no our best model of how people understand is that exactly the same model as how these big language models are they’re just like us and they’re much more like us than they are like standard computer software so understanding is all about converting words into features having the features interact and having those predict the next word what about creativity can can general of AI be as creative as humans are um you want people to be special if you take standard tests of creativity AI already do better than most people