Artificial Intelligence presents both a solution and a challenge to modern societal issues. While AI may solve problems like employment, disease, and poverty, it also creates concerns such as fake news, automated weapons, and cyber threats. The concept of AI suggests it could lead to highly stable dictatorships and produce beings with goals potentially misaligned with human interests.

AI technology, particularly machine learning, is akin to biological Evolution, with simple algorithms leading to complex outcomes. Notably, advances like ChatGPT signify a turning point in AI capabilities, suggesting the nearing advent of Artificial general intelligence (AGI). AGI is anticipated to outperform any human task, though its development timeframe remains uncertain. Ensuring these systems align with human welfare is crucial as they hold the potential to dramatically alter society.

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Key Vocabularies and Common Phrases:

1. Autonomous [ɔːˈtɒnəməs] - (adj.) - Able to operate independently without human control or intervention.

We definitely will be able to create completely Autonomous beings with their own goals.

2. Philosophically [ˌfɪləˈsɒfɪkəli] - (adv.) - In a manner related to the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality, and existence.

Almost approach it Philosophically? Questions like, what is learning?

3. Watershed [ˈwɔːtəʃɛd] - (n.) - A critical point that marks a division or a change of course; a turning point.

It is a Watershed moment.

4. Heralded [ˈhɛrəldɪd] - (v.) - Announced or acclaimed publicly in enthusiastic terms.

Chad, GPT is being Heralded as a game changer.

5. Artificial general intelligence (AGI) [ɑːtɪˈfɪʃəl ˈdʒɛnərəl ɪnˈtɛlɪdʒəns] - A computer system capable of performing any intellectual task that a human can do.

GPT four is an early, yet still incomplete Artificial general intelligence system.

6. Evolution [ˌɛvəˈluːʃən] - (n.) - The process by which different kinds of living organisms are thought to have developed from earlier forms during the history of the earth.

I feel like there is a lot of similarity between technology and biological Evolution.

7. Dictatorship [dɪkˈteɪtəʃɪp] - (n.) - A form of government in which a single person or a small group wields complete and absolute authority.

AI has the potential to create infinitely stable dictatorships.

8. Cyberattacks [ˈsaɪbər əˌtæks] - (n.) - Malicious attempts to disrupt, damage, or gain unauthorized access to computer systems, networks, or devices.

Cyberattacks will become much more extreme.

9. Evolution [ˌɛvəˈluːʃən] - (n.) - The gradual development of something.

It is very easy to understand how biological Evolution works.

10. Alignment [əˈlaɪnmənt] - (n.) - Arrangement in a straight line or in correct relative positions.

It's going to be important to have these beings, the goals of these beings, be aligned with our goals.

The Rise of AI Navigating Challenges For a Better Future

Now, AI is a great thing, because AI will solve all the problems that we have today. It will solve employment, it will solve disease, it will solve poverty, but it will also create new problems. The problem of fake news is going to be a million times worse. Cyberattacks will become much more extreme. We will have totally automated AI weapons. I think AI has the potential to create infinitely stable dictatorships.

This morning, a warning about the power of artificial intelligence. More than 1300 tech industry leaders, researchers and others are now asking for a pause in the development of artificial intelligence to consider the risks. Playing God. Scientists have been accused of playing God for a while, but there is a real sense in which we are creating something very different from anything we've created so far.

Yeah, I mean, we definitely will be able to create completely Autonomous beings with their own goals. And it will be very important, especially as these beings become much smarter than humans. It's going to be important to have these beings, the goals of these beings, be aligned with our goals.

What inspires me, I like thinking about the very fundamentals, the basics. What can our systems not do that humans definitely do? Almost approach it Philosophically? Questions like, what is learning? What is experience? What is thinking? How does the brain work?

I feel that technology is a force of nature. I feel like there is a lot of similarity between technology and biological Evolution. It is very easy to understand how biological Evolution works. You have mutations, you have natural selections, you keep the good ones, the ones that survive. And just through this process, you're going to have huge complexity in your organisms.

We cannot understand how the human body works because we understand Evolution, but we understand the process more or less. And I think machine learning is in a similar state right now, especially deep learning. We have a very simple rule that takes the information from the data and puts it into the model, and we just keep repeating this process. And as a result of this process, the complexity from the data gets transformed, transferred into the complexity of the model.

So the resulting model is really complex, and we don't really know exactly how it works. You need to investigate. But the algorithm that did it is very simple.

Chat GPT, maybe you've heard of it. If you haven't, then get ready. You describe it as the first spots of rain before a downpour. It's something we just need to be very conscious of, because I agree, it is a Watershed moment.

Well, Chad, GPT is being Heralded as a game changer, and in many ways, it is its latest triumph, outscoring people. A recent study by Microsoft research concludes that GPT four is an early, yet still incomplete Artificial general intelligence system. Artificial general intelligence AGI, a computer system that can do any job or any task that a human does, but only better.

There is some probability the AGI is going to happen pretty soon. There's also some probability it's going to take much longer. But my position is that the probability that AGI could happen soon is high enough that we should take it seriously, and it's going to be very important to make these very smart, capable systems be aligned and act in our best interest.

The very first AGIs will be basically very, very large data centers packed with specialized neural network processors, working in parallel, compact, hot, power hungry package, consuming like 10 million homes worth of energy.

You're going to see dramatically more intelligent systems, and I think it's highly likely that those systems will have completely astronomical impact on society. Will humans actually benefit? And who will benefit who will not?

The beliefs and desires of the first AGI's will be extremely important, and so it's important to program them correctly. I think that if this is not done, then the nature of Evolution, of natural selection, favor those systems, prioritize their own survival bubbles. It's not that it's going to actively hate humans and want to harm them, but it is going to be too powerful.

And I think a good analogy would be the way humans treat animals. It's not that we hate animals. I think humans love animals and have a lot of affection for them. But when the time comes to build a highway between two cities, we are not asking the animals for permission. We just do it because it's important for us.

And I think by default, that's the kind of relationship that's going to be between us and AGI's, which are truly Autonomous and operating on their own behalf.

Many machine learning experts, people who are very knowledgeable and very experienced, have a lot of skepticism about heo, about when it could happen and whether it could happen at all. Right now, this is something that just not that many people have realized yet, that the speed of computers, for neural networks, for AI, are going to become maybe 100,000 times faster in a small number of years.

If you have an arms race dynamics between multiple teams trying to build the AGI first, they will have less time to make sure that the AGI that they will build can care deeply for humans. Because the way I imagine it is that there is an avalanche, like there is an avalanche of AGI development.

Imagine you have this huge, unstoppable force, and I think it's pretty likely the entire surface of the earth will be covered with solar panels and data centers. Given these kinds of concerns, it will be important that AGI is somehow built as a cooperation between multiple countries.

The future is going to be good for the AI's regardless. It would be nicer if it were good for humans as well.

Artificial Intelligence, Technology, Science, AGI, Cybersecurity, Societal Impact