Excellent Important Watch: AI pioneer explains why it poses an existential risk for humanity
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Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton, known as one of the “godfathers of AI” for his pioneering work in deep learning and neural networks, joins Kara to discuss the technology he helped create — and how to mitigate the existential risks it poses.
Hinton explains both the short- and long-term dangers he sees in the rapid rise of artificial intelligence, from its potential to undermine democracy to the existential threat of machines surpassing human intelligence. They discuss:
How to gauge concerns over AI's ability to corrupt democracies or develop new viruses and autonomous weapons
Job creation vs. displacement
Chatbots and the need for safety guarantees
The opposing views on the risks of AI
The need for an international framework for AI; and
The various AI models out there
Chapter markers:
00:00 Intro
00:48 The difference between AI and nuclear weapons
02:28 Why the sudden focus on AI?
05:15 When did AI become a threat?
07:10 Why Hinton decided to leave Google
12:23 Will AI cause unemployment?
20:00 How should we be training AI?
23:45 Preventing an AI takeover
27:30 Opposing views on the risks of AI
33:53 Thoughts on how to regulate AI
35:34 Will the China outpace the US?
37:37 An international framework for AI
40:40 The potential AI bubble
44:00 Open source vs. closed source models
49:30 How to avoid deepfakes
54:03 The Godfather of AI
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Hinton explains both the short- and long-term dangers he sees in the rapid rise of artificial intelligence, from its potential to undermine democracy to the existential threat of machines surpassing human intelligence. They discuss:
How to gauge concerns over AI's ability to corrupt democracies or develop new viruses and autonomous weapons
Job creation vs. displacement
Chatbots and the need for safety guarantees
The opposing views on the risks of AI
The need for an international framework for AI; and
The various AI models out there
Chapter markers:
00:00 Intro
00:48 The difference between AI and nuclear weapons
02:28 Why the sudden focus on AI?
05:15 When did AI become a threat?
07:10 Why Hinton decided to leave Google
12:23 Will AI cause unemployment?
20:00 How should we be training AI?
23:45 Preventing an AI takeover
27:30 Opposing views on the risks of AI
33:53 Thoughts on how to regulate AI
35:34 Will the China outpace the US?
37:37 An international framework for AI
40:40 The potential AI bubble
44:00 Open source vs. closed source models
49:30 How to avoid deepfakes
54:03 The Godfather of AI
Subscribe: https://goo.gl/FRleYo
FOLLOW US
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/42ntT7X...
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/ onwithkaras. .TikTok:
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