What We Get Wrong About AI (feat. former Google CEO)
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AI is here. Now what?
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Everyone’s talking about artificial intelligence and machine learning. There are lots of names thrown around - OpenAI’s ChatGPT and DALLE-2, Google’s Bard, Meta’s LLaMa 2, Midjourney, AlphaFold…
Right now, we’re in this weird moment where lots of smart people agree we’re on the cusp of a truly world-changing technology. But some seem to be saying it's going to lead to human extinction while others are saying it’s “more profound than fire.”
But it all feels so VAGUE.
I want to know: How specifically would AI kill me? Or totally transform my life for the better? In this video, that’s what I’m going to try to learn. We dive into what the most extreme bad and good AI futures actually look like, so that you and I can get ready. And more importantly, so we can make sure that we get our real future RIGHT.
Chapters:
00:00 Why is AI so confusing?
1:13 What is AI?
2:37 Why is everyone talking about AI now?
5:12 Why is AI dangerous?
6:22 How would AI kill me?
8:08 Should we pause AI?
9:12 Why do we WANT AI?
10:30 What has AI already done?
11:27 Why is AI so hard to talk about?
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Bio:
Cleo Abram is an Emmy-nominated independent video journalist. On her show, Huge If True, Cleo explores complex technology topics with rigor and optimism, helping her audience understand the world around them and see positive futures they can help build. Before going independent, Cleo was a video producer for Vox. She wrote and directed the Coding and Diamonds episodes of Vox’s Netflix show, Explained. She produced videos for Vox’s popular YouTube channel, was the host and senior producer of Vox’s first ever daily show, Answered, and was co-host and producer of Vox’s YouTube Originals show, Glad You Asked.
Additional reading and watching:
- Statement on AI Risk: https://www.safe.ai/statement-on-ai-risk
- AI and compute, by OpenAI: https://openai.com/research/ai-and-compute
- Mythbusters Demo: CPU v. GPU https://youtu.be/-P28LKWTzrI
- 2022 Expert Survey on Progress in AI https://aiimpacts.org/2022-expert-survey-on-progress-in-ai/
- Introduction to protein folding for physicists https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/36046451.pdf
- AlphaFold reveals the structure of the protein universe, By DeepMind https://www.deepmind.com/blog/alphafold-reveals-the-structure-of-the-protein-universe
- But what is a neural network? By 3Blue1Brown https://youtu.be/aircAruvnKk
- How Far is Too Far? The Age of AI https://youtu.be/UwsrzCVZAb8
- Artificial Intelligence, by Last Week Tonight with John Oliver https://youtu.be/Sqa8Zo2XWc4
- The AI revolution: Google's developers on the future of artificial intelligence, by 60 Minutes https://youtu.be/880TBXMuzmk
- How smart is today’s artificial intelligence? By Joss Fong (2017) https://youtu.be/IJKjMIU55pE
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Welcome to the joke down low:
This time, I asked GPT4 for an AI related joke. They were mostly TERRIBLE. Like:
"Why don't AIs play hide and seek?"
"They always find you in 0.001 seconds!"
Finally, it gave me:
"Why did the AI go to the gym?"
"It wanted to work on its 'training set'!"
… Good enough.
Use the word “training” in a comment to let me know you read to the end :)
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