Berkeley's Efros on True AI: Not Just Writing Poetry, but *Wanting* To
berkeley_ai · x · 2026-08-10
UC Berkeley professor Alyosha Efros discussed the nature of "True AI" at a Simons Institute workshop. Quoting a friend, he suggested that the milestone for AI isn't when a computer can write poetry, but when it actually wants to write poetry.
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