Tag: artificial general intelligence
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Podcast: What if Dario Amodei is right?
One of the biggest challenges we face with AI is that it does the hard parts of thinking for you. It writes the first draft when you’re staring at the blank page. It reads the hard paper and summarises it for you at an easier level. It removes the challenges that you may not enjoy,…
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Podcast series: Imagine a World, by the Future of Life Institute
https://worldbuild.ai/podcast/ I’m working my way through this podcast series from the Future of Life Institute, and have enjoyed every episode so far. I love the (mostly) optimistic perspectives that are nonetheless embedded in what you might call less-than-ideal contexts. The stories aren’t utopian or dystopian; they’re in an in-between space that’s entirely plausible, if not…
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Podcast: The trouble with AI
https://samharris.org/episode/SE5DD11091B Sam Harris speaks with Stuart Russell and Gary Marcus about recent developments in artificial intelligence and the long-term risks of producing artificial general intelligence (AGI). They discuss the limitations of Deep Learning, the surprising power of narrow AI, ChatGPT, a possible misinformation apocalypse, the problem of instantiating human values, the business model of the…
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‘The discourse is unhinged’: how the media gets AI alarmingly wrong
Zachary Lipton, an assistant professor at the machine learning department at Carnegie Mellon University, watched with frustration as this story transformed from “interesting-ish research” to “sensationalized crap”. According to Lipton, in recent years broader interest in topics like “machine learning” and “deep learning” has led to a deluge of this type of opportunistic journalism, which…