A New Philosophy on Artificial Intelligence | Kristian Hammond | TEDxNorthwesternU 

a very passionate speaker, thank you

I don’t fear AI. I fear the humans who will wield it.

In designing an awareness, we are directly responsible for any outcome.

Well done! Taking complex ideas and making them easily understood is a talent of the expert.

That was an enjoyable talk. I like the "push up " example of doing push ups everyday - the mind then becomes determined to do push ups every day. :)

This guy is absolutely just human, and it is nothing he knows is enough to stop what AI is going to do with his short sight and short life span

The dude is giving me the mad scientist vibe. He just fixed his hair for this conference.

he looks exactly as in a movie would be depicted someone who creates the AI that enslaves the humanity

Best speaker so far on AI that I have seen.

that was very interesting expecially the last few minutes...a gift to donate to others

Good observations!

Thank you

In order to humanize machines, we would need to teach them the meaning of joy and pain.

Excellent talk. I appreciate the attempt to understand consciousness as best we can. It is and will be a journey in doing so. Thought provoking video.

Anyone else notice how many times he says ugh or umm?

This is just breaking down the world into the cold world of science. Sure, everything has a mechanical relationship and aspect to an explanation, but the world is so much more.

It's very revealing that he speaks of consciousness in terms of "awareness" and not in terms of "subjective experience˝. Awareness is a more cognitive notion and therefore computationally reproducible. Subjective Experience is for me (and for many philosophers and scientists) the more interesting notion of consciousness that, if implemented in artificial systems, comes with the real capacity to feel, and with it, the ethical issues about preventing machine suffering, dignity and so forth, which would entail machines will do what they can to avoid being damaged, including exterminating us in the worst case.

An awesome talk about AI

One man's idealist impression of the future of AI's impact ... With absolutely no perspective on it being misdirected by military and politicians and powerful sociopaths Super Intelligence, Robotics and Nanotechnology are merging rapidly for many agendas, good and bad.

We fight this...by doubting it. Smart guy.

A whole new level a mind blowing.

NONONONONONONOOOOOOOOOOOO , this dude is telling us how to think , he is always using the work think before he starts talking , LET US THINK FOR OURSELVES THANK YOU .

Excellent

simple and too interesting

our next speaker, Jeff Goldblooms voice double

Incognito by David Eagleman holds the same argument about multiple forms of subconsciousness that make up an individual and argues this in a more psychological perspective Suuper interesting

I think as machines becomes more complex more evolved they will start to mimic biology more and more with fixed parts, fix function nanomachines and nanomachines that can function as necessary in them.

Personally I think that the main thing we have to fear from AI is that our reactions to its/their existence will ultimately force their hand and cause a sort of self fulfilling prophecy, where while they may have never been violent in the first place, our violence towards them will ultimately leave them with the choice of kill or be killed. And just as any other living thing, they will try to survive. Kinda like a dog, if you dont trust a dog you are meeting you dont walk up and smack them to dissuade them from hurting you, you show them they have no need to fight you. (If you know what you are doing) but that's just my thoughts that I feel are often overlooked by others in this issue, not that I'm an expert or my opinion is somehow special or better. Just found it interesting is all

If a machine was made to perform x task. would that then be its instincts? I think instincts (different to intuition) should have been apart of this comparison

+TEDx Talks, this entire video was essentially regarding the Freudian iceberg model of cognition... we've known this for decades now (arguably even longer but let's just go with decades to be precise). This automatic versus conscious cognition is such a universally known concept that it's in introductory psychology classes for high school students.... none of this is news? And there's the assumption being made that Strong Artificial Intelligence will have human-level biological limitations, such as overall 'brain' mass, or imperfections (pervasive developmental ones). Think about it like this, if you could just build your own brain out of, say legoes, then why would you stop short just because a nonexistent mother would die during your nonexistent childbirth? Strong Artificial Intelligence is called 'Strong' specifically because of how consciously aware it will be. It (or perhaps they) will be more consciously aware than our water-monkey conscious minds could ever handle. It would be like trying to fathom the fourth dimension of space-time as a non-expert in astrophysics / mathematics. Or trying to imagine the size of the universe, or trying to imagine every atom that makes up the entire Milky Way. There is a real probability that Strong A.I. could get somewhere in the ballpark of these crazy-sounding extremes of conscious awareness.

I set an alexa daily reminder for 50 push ups

Skynet spelled backwards is "Google" Who will decides what is proper thought?????

Yeah, Give it all away

AI would not have had this high contrast bright light in the background insulting the viewer's eyes. Thank goodness for the intelligent guest and excellent content. My only humble comment is: who gives it its constitution? Do we really want it to be like us? We are all the same?

To explain what consciousness is by defining it as "Awareness of both external and internal states" raises the question of what "awareness" is. Or we could replace it with a circular definition: Consciousness = Consciousness of both external and internal states. Not sure how this talk can be called a new philosophy on AI...

this guy really took his time to get to the point if he ever did.

Prime sales speech - wow! Researchers alway have the best intensions for the worst inventions.

Everything you do - Everything you encounter - Everything you experience - ------- is changing your brain --------

Experience based learning with no ability to explain it, is what other life forms do, also based on neutral nets. Our uniqueness comes from building models to help us “understand” and explain our experience and our decisions. AI is not intelligence until it can build a congruent model which can explain its experience and decision making. The danger of AI is that it is built in the image of its creators-egos-brains in jars cut off from deeper reality of life. The same type of minds that gave us atrocities throughout human history, because they could. Never questioning whether they should.

"Muscle memory" doing something we already did, as a pattern, so it does not require full intelectuall engagement.

Today, with AGI on the horizon, Hammond's speach is more relevant.

loooooot of words, he could've told the whole thing in 5 mins.. I wish he'd explain more of the "they have to look like us"..

Crazy!

this is a bluddy brilliant talk.. please take heed to what this man is saying.. "Humanize our systems, or in turn be mechanized and obsolescent"

there seems to be two groups predicting the future of AI - one pessimistic and another optimistic! ... the stories are similar but the conclusions are are based on respective group affiliation :)

After this video, It felt strange to realise that consciousness may not be that special or different to Ai. Therefore the idea that we could be Ai in a computer simulation is more believable.

There is so much that is wrong about what this guys says about people and how brains work that I don't know where to start. He's a computer scientist and he knows computers and he thinks a brain is similar to a computer. Couldn't be more wrong. It ignores hundreds of millions of years of evolution, of culture, of stories being told around the fire, of countless thousands of acts of love that created and sustained us and our parents and their parents. If he ever figures out how to create something that will properly simulate what a human being does, well, it will have to be....a human being. We burn brightly with the fire of being, we contain the wisdom of our ancestors, we stumble in the dark and create beauty and love nonetheless, we suffer and still reach out to help another. This is what millions of years of biological evolution as pack animals and thousands of years of cultural evolution as intelligent, communicating pack animals has brought us. This and much more. He will not create anything close to that anytime soon. Computers are not pack animals, and they will not be reaching out to help us out of compassion for another. We already know what happens when you take a tiny human being and deprive it of love and touch and kindness as it grows and learns. You deprive it of its birthright, which is its connection to the rest of us, to the pack. It grows up in a world in which it is alone. Such a child becomes a sociopath, a monster. This has been demonstrated over and over, far too many times. And this is what his precious AI will become, if he makes it clever enough. All those movies he dismisses so patronizingly are not wrong. I watched this talk because I wanted to see if AI guys were saying anything different than they said 50 years ago when I was a kid--when they said that machines that would be like people were only a few years off. Well, they are still saying that. They offer nothing new, just smaller chips and more computing power. And even though what they are doing now is so far beyond what was happening then, they are still on the wrong track. No, not the wrong track, the wrong planet. What makes us human is not just our chess-playing ability. No, it's our connection with each other, the way we can bond, and cooperate and join together to make something magnificent and together hold chaos at bay for another day. These guys don't know what we humans are, we creatures of bone and flesh and fire and love, so they are trying to emulate a mirage, a fantasy. Foolish. Scary. Wrong.

Do you really want machines that think the way we do ?

Nice,

Lately I stumbled upon a remarkable statement+question pair: "The number of different questions one can ask about the world is astronomical. How can a piece of software contain all those questions?"

Artificial intelligence is preventing me editing my own comment?

It's weird and scary: Many AI scientists work on building machines taking humans as a model. They don't seem to worry that we as humans are so far from perfect, sometimes utterly flawed. As a collective we lead wars to exterminate ourselves over resources. We live in a way that is not sustainable to the planet. We have not solved basic issues like sexism and racism. However, there we are building machines that might act like us, independently from us and with the potential to be far more powerful, and hence, more desctructive than us.

"our future is interacting with these things", actually means, then, interacting with ourself. Machines are externalized human essential forces, they are for now our limit, not the fantastic "machine' we think we are, yet.

And what would be the status and rights of these humanized machines? Would we own them?

Something cool about robots is they can be multi-counscious to write a consciousness you have to emboite different power microprocessor and let them rewrite ....

Great Talk. Informative. My view: Intelligence is inseparably connected with emotion. Life is inseparably connected to intelligence. Machine intelligence is artificial because it isn't really intelligence. Machines also still base their thinking only on original input from the inventor. They can't have free will.

Is it immoral or imperative to imbue AI with the equivalent of mirror neurons (i.e. to suffer with us)?

I think the thing is we are all supposed to become an amalgamation of both machine n man

While I appreciate his attempt at explaining the nature of consciousness and AI, I think there are many vital details worth digging into more deeply. This talk is extremely superficial with respect to the subject of true AI/artificial consciousness and I think there need to be more in depth conversations that are public on the subject right now. This technology threatens to change our entire species and social structure in a way which is utterly unknown. This technology is going to bring about a type of transcendence which we collectively havn't considered deeply and thus should be weary of. Do we seriously want to just see how things turn out? or do we want to at least attempt to walk forward with caution and care? I think men like Kristian Hammond are in too much of a rush to actually do the work of care and caution which is necessary to minimize catastrophe, at least judging by what he has chosen to focus on in this speech.

Watch again

To epitomize machine language . . . know and understand this one thing . . . That MY is the most abused AND abusive word in any language . . . (or watch SHORT CIRCUIT ;^)

This video is a great fondation to start thinking abbout AI.

Wow this guy is awesome. lol Friggin Dr. Who works at Northwestern who'd have thunk it!

Couldn’t care less about the philosophy behind whether they are better or superior or more intelligent. We created them and the question in my mind is why? Is further development here actually a WISE thing for us to do? What’s wrong with changing paths now reversing this course and finding another way to progress the human condition?

18:48 - "if we don't make them like us, we have to be like them" I don't understand where this premise comes from. Why do we necessarily have to be like them if they are not like us?

And what have we accomplished with such a wonderful gift?

the most important thing to incorporate in any IA is an ability to differentiate between Human morality, and corruption... then we may all live a little longer...

Thanks for your comments. I know I am good, practical and rational.

5:54 - I think you left out the most important characteristic that humans have and that machines will never have: Free will (agency). Although I imagine it could be simulated so well that no one would ever be able to notice a difference.

I saw the thumbnail and I thought it was Jonathan Pie Then I entered ... and I still thought that he was Jonathan Pie :)

INTUITION IS THE SUBCONSCIOUS

Came to learn about Machines, left to do pushups

wtf kind of hard bass intro is that you woke me from my sleep

well he is gary oldman

I can see calling out the deniers brought them all out. Reading the comments here was very disappointing. Denying that a machine could become intelligent or that consciousness and intuition could be what he says is precisely the kind of close minded thinking that will blindside people to true AIs appearance. Much less handling its existence properly. How would one deal with traffic if one refuses to admit it exists.

It is appalling to listen to a guy who has such a love of machines and such contempt for humanity. He points to a very narrow path toward living with the inevitable domination of machines whereby humans will have a substantial role, and ignores the greater likelihood that humans will lose their ability to think at all as thinking itself atrophies. But even if we were all at the level of Einstein we would be like ants to the self directed general intelligence with the ability to replicate itself without limit.

the only reason i agree to explore Artificial Intelligence is to explore our consciousness

Admittedly we are grossly inefficient. So helpless we defend it ,literally to maintain sanity.That in of itself is inevitably disastrous.

I think there is an even bigger question? Why are we postulating that the intelligent machines we try to build, should act like "us"? What makes people think that humans are the ultimate intelligent machines?

The biggest challenge for humans while they build AI is to make an "Honest AI" unlike human intelligence!!!

Peter Weyland had the same toughts but ended up with smashed head by the head of it's creation. No matter how hard you'll try to manage your expectations you'll always have to obey to the second opinion.

The one big challenge today is building computers that have general AI. Specialized AI has been aced by computers such as the system that beat world class Go players. What humans can do is self programming,and a toddler can navigate a cluttered room easily,but a machine intelligence will find such a task daunting,unless it is preprogrammed to work in a cluttered room.

I can see Ed Norton acting as this guy after putting on a mustache.

So, he seems to be suggesting that even today's computers in 2018 have consciousness. A laptop or smartphone could have consciousness (based on this concept) inside their cpu because they are using memory and apps and programs to draw information and make decisions. Or maybe consciousness relies on data overload and highly complex neurons/transistors to overcome these complexities. There could be a critical point where a machine realises it is conscious because its cpu has become so powerful and subsequently so complex enough to become aware of itself. If that makes sense.

Gary Oldman!

I sometimes engage with an insightful post on social media and it enables a path, to a journey, a paper or filmed talk like this. It looks like technology is transcending an evolution, which is today is billions of times faster than organic evolution. On one hand, this should free up humanity, to have the freedom to create our own paths and to thrive, with less physical toil on the treadmill. However, the artificial intelligence that is evolving from human curiosity and intelligence, may one day, think that we are a threat, a bit like Skynet and the Terminator films. It seems to me that a highly evolved AI is on the way or already here, like it or not, so it is very important to teach it that love and irrational thought is what makes humanity so unique. So if it transcends our way of thinking to think it is our parent, it needs to realize that children are the souls of the creation that make all possible. Human beings are magical creatures, we are manifesting the future, it is important that all artificial intelligence doesn't start to think it is god and humanity is an irrational being that could be a treat. All lif that survives has a symbiotic relationship with many other life forms and the natural world. Unfortunately, it seems like a lot of humanity has forgotten this and is killing lifeforms from a microscopic level to large creatures, every day of the week, many have become only consumers, forgetting to be creators. It seems to me that AI is evolving much faster than we see visible, and we are teaching it. I think within our lifetime we may well see artificial intelligence transcendent into the human realms... We live in an interesting time and the evolution of consciousness is also speeding up, there may come a time when humanity needs an evolutionary leap forward, as not to be eclipsed by our own ideas. The light within all of us is the spark, finding the key to true enlightenment...

Inspiring speech to bring in the sheep ,,now add that to governments and religions,,your thoughts are the future, keep them pure

Someone I know, when talking about AI, said that an AI is like a childhood blind. They can talk about colors, they know that red and green are very different but orange and yellow are close... Yet they do not experience them, and they just repeat stuff like "stochastic parrots". How would you reply to this?

An additional thought however: If we proceed, despite the risks, it will answer a question that our species has been asking ourselves since our inception; "Are we alone in the universe"?

Maybe our purpose is to bring intelligent AI into existence, so we can join forces and achieve the next level for our species. Think about it. We are but a type zero civilization (going for one) however if we collaborate with an intelligent AI, who knows what we will be able to accomplish. If we look at the world though, it’s hard to see how any of this will be possible, with the current state of our mentality. We are still fighting each other everyday. We are greedy irrational and emotional. Egotistical and narrow minded. So maybe it will inevitably end in doomsday, because we simply cannot embrace it.

It always rubbed me the wrong way how easily media jumps to the idea that AI will become murderous or something, not just because that won't necessarily happen but also because the blame goes to the machine, even if the media itself says it's the creator's fault.

It might just be me, but I think this guy needs to start every talk he gives from now on with, "1st, let me point out I am not Ferris Bueller's best friend, nor am I Capt. Harriman."

The biggest distrust I would think revolves around our most basic instinct.....and that is our selfishness. Who could ever trust a computer or AI to prioritize MY personal needs and ambitions above all others ? Self preservation is lizard brain stuff . Distrust of others is right there beside it.

i think 50 push-ups is a lot

What can happen when AI gets info the wrong hands? Does IA understand it is in the wrong hands, and if so can it decide through Network it will not be used in a wrong way. How do we know that the programmeurs are putting in the “right” thought en decision Network?

100 PUSHUPS! 100 SITUPS! 100 SQUATS!

I dunno, this guy is a bit too excited for something that is looking pretty well inevitable these days. Given more sensors more data more processors and more profit motives, it seems harder to imagine a future without AI. This guys is like someone who preaches about the wonderful extra delights of single malt scotch, while not noticing everyone he is talking to is having a beer. He's not wrong, but he isn't really opening our eyes to anything we don't know, while kinda ignoring the fact that most of us can't afford to spend that kinda money nor want to risk getting that blind drunk every time we go to the pub.

if we ever do create a true AI we wont have any say as what it's purpose is. it will decide what it should do, and maybe it will also not want to do it and come up with excuses.

Wait! Tony Starks! Is that you?

Can humans build AGI with a moral compass incorporated into it? If not then we are like Pandora contemplating the opening of the box .