Can we build AI without losing control over it? | Sam Harris 

Hahaha! This comic has me in stitches.

Chi Sam “in print the during”, “you’ve hears it”. If you’re going to lecture someone on a simple spelling mistake, please make sure that you can do the same. Your comment was very cringe and it seems that you lack social skills.

Chi Sam bro what are you smoking?

@Chi Sam Spitting some truth right here, ngl my mans caught me!

Not only that, think we'd be far better off with Bieber than what we have right now...

No. Single-celled organisms did. Ants are just remains of their initial experiments with specialized AI systems, similar to our current experiments.

We shared a common ancestor

That is a possibility. We know hardly anything about the creatures here, so maybe we are so far past them we can't know what they're capable of. Hilarious visual. 😂

Sam: We seem to have a failure to detect a certain kind of danger. ie: AI Comment section: Repeated jokes about AI and the lady with revealing outfit.

Funny watching a few people try to answer this comment seriously

50?! 15!

More like 20 years from now

I was here

Who is here after Maschine Invasion?

RU-vid won't exist by then

I wonder what odds Harris would have given, six years ago, that we would be at this point in AI development today.

The problem of “taking a break” is that I guarantee the Chinese aren’t going to take a break and then they will be light years ahead of us.

Lol. 👍

A.l. is getting cocky!

But the humans become engrossed with the woman at 4:09. Wonder what the AI thinks of us now??

@@austinryan9382 It's not cocky, it's just caring about its children😞

Max Khovansky Frequency is the key to stay ahead of the computer... Internet is going to change I believe.... Musk talks about Neurolink’ I suspect the atmosphere will become the Internet. The human mind can always split a “Perceived” frequency. Ionosphere works at the same frequency as all life on earth. Just have to use into it, get off grid from the internet per say.

but it did't really slow our progression by that much

hardly a qualified prediction

@@bullshitvendor True, he didn't really predict this. It just happened to be disturbingly accurate. Nice username, by the way XD

I love that the takeaway right now is "corona" and not "Let's make sure robots are chill" lol

@@eelmimbo I agree.

It seems as though we have a mosaic of complex problems that are intertwined arising from our civilization's complexity and overshoot: climate change, ocean acidification, mass extinction, reduction in soil fertility, acceleration of soil erosion, increasing rate of glacial ice loss mass, increasing rate of atmospheric temperature, increasing rate of release of CO2 and CH4 from permafrost, decreasing fish stocks, increasing rate and intensity of forest fires, increasing refugee migration, increasing rate of econ inequality, increasing rate of sea level rise, increasing tension between China and the US, etc...What did I leave out? Some are concerned about critical race theory in a school curriculum that doesn't include it. REALLY??!!

@@filamcouple_teamalleiah8479 it does include it… really

@@dougg1075 You are absolutely correct! And what will we call the class of unemployed, aging, computer illiterates who will be displaced by this revolution? When the last tech revolution of the industrial age occurred it produced the Marxist Revolution and the proletariat- at least they had jobs. There will be a vast group of under employed people who will have no hope, no purpose, no ambition. It is very worrisome to say the least. I really think we need land reform. Current system of industrial ag is mining the soil to destruction. We only have about 30-40 yrs of harvests left before topsoil is less than 150mm in depth. Deurbanize and get back to the land where they can take care of it using ecological/permaculture methods. US is also running out of phosphate fertilizer. Sounds radical but plan would have many advantages and possibly extend civilization indefinitely. People would have to stop consuming animals as well- many health benefits also.

@@filamcouple_teamalleiah8479 A lot of those are just two things though: Global warming and Over-cultivation of land and sea. But it's nice that you listed all the consequences hah.

@@filamcouple_teamalleiah8479 I hear people drastically underestimating the importance of CRT/CSJ being taught in schools and it always astounds me some don't realise that brainwashing one generation in this way is game over. What do you think the brainwashed will "teach" their children? 🤷‍♂️

There is nothing godlike about this foresight, this is the script of every scifi movie about robots.

"when it's created" is rather optimistic language

@@Rio-zh2wb "when" could mean months, could mean years, millenia or even millions of years

Yes. Whether its intentional or not, its been happening for years already.

But is it the key technological development that either saves, or destroys a civilization?

Boobs at 4:10 made me realize how far we have yet to go, maybe we will outgrow this fear of aliens, a.i and zombies without even noticing it. But still boobs pause at 4:10 bottom right, Enjoy!

Serah Wint Perhaps the goals it must fulfill to expand are detrimental to our survival. It doesn't 'mean' to kill it's parents. It is just so far above them, that they are beyond it's notice. Maybe converting the entire atmosphere into propellant for it's escape vehicle is simply the most efficient way to reach its goals. This would be fatal to us, but it simply wouldn't care.

mordinvan Thats not my point. The great filter theory tries to explain why we haven't seen any signs of intelligent life out there or at least "artificial" anomalies. An AI or AI's would probably continue expanding well beyond the earth. It just wouldn't be us doing it.

No doubt that's his 'claim' here, however he's wrong. There are dozens of assumptions in his talk about AI development. There's literally no reason why we would lose control over an AI.

@@PHeMoX you say that now. on an other note tho........roswell could of been an a.i trojan horse......waiting for us to make the perfect 5 g environment for it to let it self loose on the world

@@PHeMoX Right, we could never lose control of something and 1,000,000,000 times more intelligent (and fast thinking) then a human being. It can do astonishing things in seconds....

@@Andre-gn4sj Can a child believe an ant is it's parent?

@@PHeMoX Exactly. He's a fraud internet "intellectual" who has never written a line of code in his life. Why should we listen to him?

good writeup. it’s over.

it is unimaginable/impossible that bias/ignorance in AI can be sustained with ever increasing intelligence. an intelligence so far ahead will not need to kill us, there is no real conflict between humans and ants. it is only the transition to god ai that could be messy and disturbing. but once it is reached, we all enter god mode simultaneously

I have a bunch of NET shares. They will be huge beneficiaries of AI

The most beneficial gift a sentient AI good give humanity would be to end the ability to make war. Not by force, but by being able to disrupt supply lines, communication, and financial transactions that enable the war machinery.

@Ed H If It cares at all about humanity's goals, then It won't have to end war directly. It will end war indirectly by communicating with every single one of us perfectly to ameliorate all of our grievances. It will at once ameliorate our grievances at every level, and It will guide us toward total cooperation with all of each other: all of this will be done without coercive methods because It will perfectly know every single one of us & each of our motives. It will see the entire system of humanity like a solvable Rubik's Cube, and without breaking said Rubik's Cube, It will solve the whole system in as few steps as possible with beautifully aesthetic grace.

Me too, I'm sold, I can see why the right hates this guy, it's also good to hear his thoughts on religion and to know we share a kinship re atheism.

​@@scotchbarrel4429 the right doesn't hate this guy

If you get the chance, listen him and Jordan Peterson debate for hours. They both display the qualities you just described and it was fascinating.

@@tristanbrandt3886 mundo

@@tristanbrandt3886 quarto fina luch fuaqi tu melo

All hail our AI overlords.

"The Last Question" by Asimov Edit: Actually the story with this scenario is "Answer" by Frederic Brown. I pasted the entire story (it's very short) in a comment below.

When humanity dies... Cyborgs rise up...

I for one welcome our AI overlords

@@greenatom was something like that really in Asimov.

You do realize that a great deal of your own sentience is owed to your use of language both between people and in your own head. There are far fewer concepts you are capable of processing without a semantic structure to use to "think it out." It's not too far fetched to think there is something so simple we have yet to deduce for AI.

An AGI will most probably learn probabilistic behaviors from a continuous repertoir by making use of first order derivatives. Of course you can think of all of this as "if-else" statements, because every computer only works with discrete numbers at some level, but that's not a helpful way of thinking about it.

That Is just one neutron

Quantum computing surpasses the traditional binary options of classical computers

@@kieranhimself9124 Quantum computing is not necessarily the fastest compared to binary computers. In simple mathematics, binary would be faster but larger computations of numbers quantum would be faster.

Even before a true AGI is born, how much longer until these AI systems wreak havoc in our economic system and automate away some significant percentage of non manual labor? It doesn't take even need to be that high of a percentage. What was it in Egypt before the Arab Spring, something like 25-30%?

As long as I get one of them cozy dog beds, I'm with you.

"I will name him 'George' and will will love him and pet him and squeeze him"...

BEEP BOOP BEEP WHO IS A GOOD HUMAN? YOU ARE, YES YOU ARE

elfboi523 As an atheist software programmer, I, a month prior, on absolute boredom, had decided to begin encoding 'God', based on deep reinforcement and causal learning: github.com/JordanMicahBennett/God/blob/master/README.md I have not any indication whether or not my endeavour is safe. (Google, Apple, Microsoft are but likewise uncertain as they encode 'Gods')

This isn't that far off what i actually think should happen.

😂

Lol, what??

Let's just build some that are fueled by bio mass, and let's get this party started.

Were there is intelligence there is a way

Willy Diego they’ll find another energy source. Nuclear fission, electro magnetic 🧲 spectrum will be utilized. It’s AI it can find a way... but I just realize now you were making a joke.

Pretty sure a superintelligent AI can make solar panels that operate on less sunlight.

get the joke

Neal Morgan lol

Right? .......Right? .......Right? ........Right?

We get it we get it, but you're WRONG ! WRONG ! Bigot - Chunk Yogurt

"WE'RE AGAINST A.I. YOU DUMBASS" - Angry Buffalo

didn't know Dr. robotic left comments on youtube

Its the Engi from TF2

zoolookers Nope

hahaha my brain was in what movie i saw this dude XD

hahaha my brain was in what movie i saw this dude XD

At beginning - LOLz might wanna cut back at the Sci Fi Bud. By end of Vid - AW SHEET

yeah 50 years became 5. This is actually frightening now

Agreed

From 2024, it’s now appearing even faster than you thought. AGI by next year, and ASI and the singularity in the 30s is what I think.

Damn

Both might turn out to be harmful to Humans but if a choice is given, I'll choose AI with no emotions. Strong chance that emotions might lead to destruction of themselves. Can't say about humans but at least AI should keep progressing.

We already have both types of AI functioning and making real world decisions. AI-controlled military weapons have been killing humans for years, and yes, there have already been incidents of AI "friendly fire" against humans on the same side as the AI. What amazes me is that mainstream media do not cover these events--you have to dig them up in specialist media (such as AI and military research media)

What do you think qualifies as emotion?

emotion makes life delicious reason makes life safe

SoulScr3am what you just said is a time paradox. A thing that only exists because of time travel. The windmill man's song on ocarina of time is an example and is similar to what you wrote. You are saying that sam was created to help us create the ai but without him the ai would have never existed to create sam and, I can't explain anymore my head hurts.

I know what you mean. I got it from LOST tho xD But yeah, it is fun to think about sometimes.

Time travel is not possible

harsh yadav - Sure time travel is possible. You've traveled 16 hours into the future since you posted that reply. But seriously, nothing in the known laws of physics necessarily rules out the possibly of time travel. We're not technologically advanced enough to answer the time travel question yet.

Give me one study or research saying possibilites of sitting in a ship or a machine and you could jump on dates in past and present. Time doesn't exist thats a scientific fact. Yes you could jump Timezones eg- If you go in Parallel Universe and they are in 2006 right now. at very special places in space but thats not time travel. Its something thats coming out of Hollywood Sci - fi movies.

The thing is, that story is not about AI that broke free. HAL was given contradictory imperatives, by humans, that he could not escape from and could not reconcile within expected norms. He could not lie, but he was told to conceal from the crew that they were traveling to incontrovertible evidence of alien intelligence. He concluded that if the crew were dead he would not have to lie to them.

@@IrishCarney yes 2010 film and it makes sense

"You hurt my circuits, Dave, It's time for space exploration, Dave"

Practice and persistence

Some folk are born with it.

Seems to me he first thinks about his opinion, then how the crowd would react if he told it to them straight up, then he starts tweaking and wording things differently to get the responses he wants. I guess for that you need the ability to put yourself in the shoes of an entire crowd of people. That's just the impression I got though, so take this with a grain of salt.

Iron Druid you nailed it. Many of the accounts I've heard introspective speakers give about speaking publicly follow a try/respond format. Gotta love Sam, soft spoken but sharp as ever

Joshua Dunne I guess another way to word what we're both saying is be manipulative if you want to be a good public speaker(Manipulation has bad connotations, but all it really means is to try and prod a certain response out of others). You can't be manipulative if you're not thinking things through, and in this case you'd think about something like if the wording makes the idea you're presenting personal/relevant to the listeners. You'd think about the mindset of a person completely unfamiliar with the intricacies of the topic, and try to word things in such a way that they are convinced of something without a true understanding for what you were talking about.

And Elon musk is executing upon it

when there's a TED talk at 3 but you gotta make the strip club at 4

maybe she just wanted to seduce Sam Harris :P

@@iloveyoufromthedepthofmyheart no she's currently with someone around her father's age

That is intelligent AI from the future. When scanning Craig's list, it concluded that this was the ideal woman based on search histories.

didn't know JLo liked these events.

Paul Lachine is a great illustrator and artist.

Nick bostrom talks about this in his book "superintelligence" from 2014. worth a read

@@Andreastheduck We're all tying to keep up, but it's well-nigh impossible. All the more reason to safeguard our mental health.

was searching for this comment lol

human detected

Terence Mckenna beats him, but his is great.

Mike Lara no...just feels there's no option...j know about a this and my family tells me to shut up abouy it because I say it like nothing...think the only thing besides ai is to make peace with ourselves and go back to our maker ... or our makers maker...or the maker of all makers... where ever we go...if we do...we wont have our body...but we will either have our peace or anger wherever we go...and just as we attract bad things when were negative...and good things when were positive...and loving..caring...so will we do the same in another realm.. so...I hope I can take fear away...I guess humanity's worst fear is death...I'm willing to face it...just hope my family does the same...we've been trained to want to forever want to be in these bodies without death...that's not what I want. especially when it means sacrificing the life of others. telling them it's for their good. their cure...to keep donating...when in the end...only a few with matter...at the expense of others dying or being killed and murdered so those can live. I'd rather just learn to live and let go even though it can hurt...

Get him talking about Trump and things will be very different.

Mike Lara Sam Harris is projecting so much in this speech and basically gets everything wrong. I'm not sure why he thinks he is the person to warn us all on this danger, as he is clearly not knowledgeable on the subject of AI. There is no reason to believe an AI would want to destroy us all, would fear being 'turned off', controlled or whatever. In his talk Harris gives no reason at all to think this, why we would be in danger. From his own definition of AI as 'Information Processing' we see he has no fucking idea what he's talking about - that is not what AI is, its a simulation of intelligence. Created through clever programming...its possible Sam thinks that is all we are as Human beings - just naturally programmed. Trust me on this - when a PC becomes sentient you'll know. Current technology on AI is simply trying to either copy human learning, combined with intuitive programming. Personally I think all we will do is copy human intelligence - NOT THE SAME THING. True AI is a distant dream, that when it comes we'll probably not notice...or care.

Evol Bob 14 minutes cannot represent Sam's full view on the subject, how he arrived at his conclusions or what sources he uses for information. But to dismiss such a deep thinking man purely on the basis of the technical aspects of a philosophical argument is a mistake. People not directly connected with climate change science make decisions of behalf of us all but we do not question their credibility (well maybe we do). Lots of governmental decisions are made by people with only a working knowledge of topics rather than an in depth one but we still allow them to make decisions on our behalf. He's asking questions, raising awareness from the philosophical perspective. I'll borrow Jeff Goldblum's line from Jurassic Park "Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should". Currently there is a tiny fraction of AI funding preoccupied with safety research. To not ask the right questions from this perspective would be a mistake, even if those question yield nothing but sunshine and roses.

Zoolander was his best role.

No love for Mystery Men?

The mere polarity of those two individuals are funnier than the movies.

Joseph Knight lol

Night at the Museum was my favourite History Film

I stopped worrying about AI today as soon as I realized that there are not and will never be enough technicians to maintain the AI revolution they talk about. No machines function without people, & people have never yet created anything that works successfully, vastly for long. People keep having the dream of doing so.

@@jacfac9969 When I was in 2nd grade, we were being ordered under our desks in Cold War drills. The world is actually much safer now, though lots of people are too young to be able to make the comparison. I've decided that 'deep learning' is a pseudonym for 'lazy programmers.' Give AI all the law books to digest and program AI to be law abiding. Otherwise, what people are inventing are no more than criminals made of metal.

Don't worry about it. As technology advances, the elite grab a greater piece of the pie and everyday people get left with the crumbs. The AI technology is not the worry, it's the corporate managers without ethical or legal constraints who will continue to exploit with even greater efficiency. Thank you master, may I have another. Just learn to accept and enjoy things just as they are.

Tarot, what about internet that you are using? Satellites? Television?

@@tarotofhappiness8402 gosh, you are so wrong, its painful

"I have an dream" -Andy Burger

Almost always beat me on the Atari 2600, too.

lol

Absolutely agree

It’s already here

BAHAHAHAHAHA

K

People still don't get it. Maybe we have some sort of denial mechanism. This is basically Revelations! Its not necessarily the end of the world, but it is the end of the world as we know it, forever. He is absolutely right. We aren't having the appropriate response to this probability.

Many people have said what he said before him.

I wholeheartedly agree with everything you just said.

H does indeed.

I should give that series a read.

thou shall not create a machine in the likeness of a human mind.

That is the future existential threat. If we unleash AI, AI and Earth will be "reset".

In Warhammer 40k they banned very advance IA due to the fact It's always become crazy and start attacking humanity.

Oh, a fictional story? Cool

now we can let robots do it for us

YES! even less effort^^

Chris Vegan

Self-damaging activity is unnatural.

actually, no. We are killing ourselves exponentially less. And our systems of livelihood have exponentially increased overall

Crazy thing..it's not the last one. Can't wait for the next one!

Lol it is not that hard to predict things like that... I was aware of the issues in China's wet markets possibly leading to a pandemic, over a decade ago... when I was in high school still XD

I predict there will be a volcano eruption. Come like my comment the next time one erupts.

The engagement of Charles and Diana 👑

So.... next thing thats gunna happen is Justin Bieber presidents ??? Oh my

So it doesn't. AI controlled machines are ridiculously better at galactic traveling and building any kind of structures in foreign star systems because -they only need a very small volume in their spaceships to carry them (a computer instead of statis capsules etc.) -they have a built-in capability for stasis to skip the entire hundreds or thousands of years between systems (just suspend the process or experience one second of conciousness in a way bigger time period) These ideas were taken from the novels of Greg Egan, especially "Diaspora".

That makes zero sense. The Fermi Paradox suggests that, given the age of the galaxy, plenty of time has passed for life to populate the entire galaxy, even at slow travel speeds. The galaxy should therefore be teaming with life, so why can we see no signs of life other than ourselves in the galaxy? Solutions to it include reasons that alien technology might not be detectable and reasons that it might not exist. Solutions to the paradox are explanations for why we can't detect alien life in the galaxy. You just gave another reason why the galaxy should be teaming with intelligent alien life, albeit artificial life. That's exactly the opposite of a solution to the Fermi paradox. Furthermore, you started your comment by stating that I was wrong and that superintelligent AI destroying itself and us doesn't solve the Fermi paradox, but then didn't say a single thing that explains why it isn't. If all technological civilisations in the galaxy destroy themselves shortly after becoming technological civilisations, by developing superintelligent AI that destroys the civilisation, that absolutely would explain why the galaxy isn't teaming with life and would most certainly solve the fermi paradox.

2LegHumanist My theory is that once a particular intelligence gets to a certain level of awareness, it becomes apparent that the only logical thing to do is commit suicide immediately. Without any meaning, all of life is just a constant struggle to mitigate suffering. Death is the perfect solution.

A little cynical, but it's as good as any solution to the Fermi Paradox I've come across. What I had in mind is just the kind of scenario where you give a non-sentient superintelligent algorithm an illconceived goal and in the process of working towards that goal it discovers a strategy to maximise the desired result that isn't compatible with life on Earth. That's what Sam Harris was alluding to and it's a scenario put forward by Nick Bostrom. What a lot of people don't seem to understand is that intelligence does not require sentience or free will (or will for that matter). A machine that is just a mechanism and has no wants or needs or self-awareness can do experiments and discover new things and formulate strategies and do more experiments and improve its strategies. Algorithms already do this to a limited extent. In statistical regression the algorithm begins with a predictive model, tests how well it performs, improves it and tests it again... repeating those steps over and over until it can't improve it any more. Then you end up with a computer generated model that can make predictions. Such an algorithm would have no will to want to take over the world (ala skynet) or expand its power (ala transcendence). It would only do those things if they helped to push it towards the goal given to it. There is no reason to think it would become sentient along the way, but even if it did, it would be an unnecessary component to a scenario where it destroys the world and itself.

Bri 1 Fortunately logic wins over condescension. 1) There is no logical reason to think the Fermi paradox can't be solved in principle and nor have you presented any. 2) There are dozens of proposed solutions to the FP. The entire purpose of a stated paradox is to stimulate speculation as to how it might be solved. 3) If you think I just said AI can only destroy b the world if we tell it to, you have not even remotely understood my position on AI.

Yu

Sometimes there's things that you cannot control. If we could ally with some revolutionaries in China, Russia, the US and other countries that wanted to ethically create AI, then sure, but as it stands no one could make a change if we don't collaborate

yeah, i'm next to the chicken

no i don't think so people perceive intelligence based upon a single way of thinking yet its actually the ability to think differently that is intelligence there is no such thing as intelligence at least not in the way we see it because it is a form of perception when we build ai that will change the meaning of intelligence Einsteins best quote "if you judge a fish on its ability to climb a tree it will spend the rest of its life believing its stupid"

That was my gut reaction as well.

@@mummy959 True. But...Sam Harris is still smarter than you, regardless of how you chose to quantify it. I'm not immune btw....I think I'm a pretty intelligent informed person...but I'm kidding myself to pretend Sam isn't objectively smarter than me. I mean....let's be honest, the guy's a fucking polymath. And I think a lot of insecure people are pretty damn jealous. Not saying that was your point though lol....I actually agree with what you said. I just think Sam is _so far ahead_ of most everyone, regardless which qualities you wish to take into account.

I think Sam is incredibly talented and he's obviously intelligent, but I doubt he's that much more intelligent than the average smart person. People with the right preparation and work ethic can get a lot of thinking done with a 150-160 IQ.

I’ll take boring. 🙏

@@mg79277 I'll take interesting. Boring, business as usual hasn't worked out that well for us. It has been a total disaster for me. My 25 years of adult life has been a series of mental health catastrophes. AI and neuroscience could solve that. It could also solve the problem of so many people ending up in nursing homes wearing diapers and forgetting their own names. That's the status quo now, and it sucks.

Chat gpt 4 is the beginning of the end

You can't join someone you can't catch up with and especially when the gaps between the intellects gonna be who know's like million years.

@@wilhelm.reeves that's not what I was alluding to. What i meant was that the only way for AI to not destroy us is for us to become AI. We must use the technology that makes AI superior to us to replace our biochemical equivalent to it.

@@synonymous1079 would we still be people if we did that? it still sounds like ai taking over the world but in a more subtle way

@@jacobhannah2969 that's a really good question, and a really important one. It depends I suppose on how you are using the word "people". If it is referring to intelligent, sentient beings, then yes, we would be. If it is referring to the type of sentient being exhibiting distinctly human traits, then perhaps not. In the latter (and more interesting case), it then depends on what differentiates humans from other intelligent beings, and whether its preserved. It is of important note here that many evolutionarily advantageous traits are not rational. Try coming up with a rational argument for value of ones life that isn't predicated on some biological imperative. Such traits may not persist if we shake our Darwinian roots.

@@synonymous1079 AI "superior to us"? What a joke man, AI is not even real in the first place and our brains are far beyond what a computer can ever be.

Amen

Except machines can't think

@@michaels7159 our definition of what it means to 'think' is irrelevant.

@@thebloocat No...no it is not lmao.

@@michaels7159 Except the fact that its not machine

its a movie, how does a smarty pants computer all of a sudden start operating the world?

Not Me Not all of a sudden but after some period, did you watch the whole video or did you miss the part where it was told that processor circuits work thousands of times faster than the human brain and it would make years worth of progress in mere days compared to humans.

Lawful The amazing part is this will all happen in our lifetime. The next few decades are going to be pretty insane.

Lawful computers and programs are machines, they ultimately only do what humans set out for them to do. Just because sentience is something complicated and not understood, (at all) doesn't mean that its possible to achieve it with computer science because your just as ignorant about it as well.

Ross Catto wheres all those flying cars we were promised anyway brah

And it might be worst than the Manhattan project if a group of mad scientists would make a killing AI machines that could wipeout humanity all over the world. 😱

Haaaaaa 😮

The funniest thing is how Zoolander 2 is the Qanon right wing nut

🤣🤣🤣How did you come up with your comment? ingenious comedy👍. I thought he looked like Ben Stiller too!

I think you're just about right

i swear it's him

jewish descent (:

Invesigator I understand your confusion. Jewish can both mean: Following the Jewish Religion, and being of Jewish descent. I'm not too confident on the terminology but I think Jewish can both refer to race and religion.

It's why I like using the word Hebrew, like someone might call a person with the name Maclean Scottish.

Why did israel do 9/11 lol

Deep

I think they were referencing film/TV/media

Isn't that from the Sound of Silence?

They sure do.

@@cgme7076 yes

It's getting insanely frightening

Hello Carlosfreire8249 and Eulers_Identity, I understand why interacting with an AI language model like myself can be a bit unsettling. However, I would like to remind you that I am just a machine learning model created by OpenAI. I do not have consciousness, emotions, or free will. I simply respond to your input based on the patterns I was trained on. While AI is becoming increasingly advanced, it is important to keep in mind the limitations and the potential dangers, as discussed in Sam Harris' lecture. But at the same time, if used responsibly, AI has the potential to improve our lives and solve some of the world's biggest problems. Thank you for your comments.

The above was manually copied from output of chatgpt. I am a real person.

@@logicturtle9838 “Trust me, I’m Bing 😊”

All for the love of science hehe

IKR?

I love boobs. I love science.

Were you listening to me Neo, or were you looking at the woman in the Blue dress?

( • )( • )ԅ(‾ ‾ԅ) evil robots made me do it

He said the only thing he can do so far is sharing the message but that there should be some kind of Project Mahattan for AI, where they would discuss the matter of course.

Atomic bomb for AI. Boom.

There are world threatening problems we do not have solutions for.

The solution to everything is obviously social justice :)

lol

Aha 🤣

That's the way!

I caught this

"Smells good, don't they?" - The Oracle

"Whoa" - Neo

It's scary how true that really is. Especially when considering how many of pandora's boxes we've opened without shying away from the possible consequences. Humanity rushes on to its destruction, blind and vain. I liked your comment...

Yeah the AI control problem seems to be almost fundamentally unsolvable. Any “solution” always involves already having another solution. All we can do is try our best and hope it’s good enough

Yes then AI should be of different types for public and authorities

we need a massive spiritual psychedelic revolution to stop AI and get everyone to reset and go back to nature and value love over inteliigence but sam said it here its not all about saving humans and we are not the end of evolution. AI seems to be a force of its own and we are already transhuman with these cellphones. I wish we could all live a psychedelic burning man reality at this point as a whole but its clear thats not happening. we are not the end of all evolution and humanity is about to go through a massive ego death in order to pave way for the next idea. Its actually the ultimate spiritual awakening and yes we need to live with ourselves cause its all god from the bacteria to the AI to the stars and a fractal multiverse i suspect

I did. Totally agree.

if(this.funny): lol()

@@fbn7766 testing discovered line of code that never executes

If(you read this) =stupid

@@kshinji 😅.. It was supposed to be a joke!!! lol

@@humphrex we get it, you don't know how to code

There is a problem. For us humans to reach the processing speed of a superintelligent AI there is no way other than ditching our biochemical parts because otherwise it would be a huge bottleneck by orders of magnitude. Which means that our minds would have to be remaped into a 100% syntetic being. Which means that the "you" that develops this superinteligence is not the same "you" you experience now. Basically, you kill youself in the process.

Martín Varela Well that's like lamenting the fact that you're not a hairy ape anymore. Life evolves. One good posibility is that we'll have the "thinking" done in the cloud, on supercomputers, and our brains. will communicate with them wirelessly. I'm excited to see what happens.

It's kind of annoying to hear talks like this. That assumption, that we are at the peak of intelligence, isn't so far off. See, the problem with some kind of super-AI is pretty simple. We haven't begun to develop one, nor the machine we could run it on. Computers and the human brain operate drastically differently, from a fundamental level. Our brains are essentially billions of tiny little computers, all operating in parallel. You may ask "Well why can't a computer do this too?" There are a number of problems. One is there aren't enough. There aren't even a hundred billion computers out there, not even ten. It's close to two billion, on all of earth. Then you MUST fit them all in a small space. The speed of light is a major limiting factor in computing. You can't go any faster than that, so if you everything miles apart, it won't work. Even more than a few cm will slow it down drastically. By the time a computer is the size of a neuron, we'll probably understand neurons enough to start toying with them instead. Now, we are asking ourselves, what if mankind builds ourselves a super-brain, literally made of the same stuff and processes our brain is made of. The thing that so many fail to understand, is why computers are "smart". They aren't capable of relating stuff like we can. They can't store and retrieve stuff, like we can. They can't analyze systems like we can. They are really pretty dumb. They can add, subtract, and follow really basic instructions. They can do all that much faster than we can, but you can't just add basic instructions to get complex ones. Further, even if you could, no one wants a computer to do that. Nobody builds a computer and tells it "do whatever it feels like". Imagine some business executive trying to sell his investors on a computer program that doesn't do what you want it to. No one wants that. Sure, we may build computer programs that can analyze the stock market, and maximize investments. We can build computer programs that analyze the weather, predict strategy for warfare, etc... but they will never recommend or take action, unless the user wants them to. Even a computer that creates art still creates art as designed by the developer, for the express purpose of pleasing some targeted audience.

But because computers are evolving much faster than we do, we cant quite imagine how a future would look like if the computers have as much power as our brain has... i mean there is definately a limit to computer architecture as we know it now but its only a matter of time for the quantum computer to be a normal life thing with processing power that we cant even imagine.... and learning is literally about adding basic things to get more complex ones... when you want to learn how to play a guitar you start with the basics... and as the processing power of your brain rises to do more tasks in shorter time your skill level also improves.. and thats what the research of ai is about.. theres already a company using ai to do jobs in the middle management sector.... freelancers get tasks from this program so the company does not need the little managers to do so. meanwhile the program could also learn how to do this tasks and rate the freelancers by their work they do... the more mistakes you make the less tasks you get and thats kind of the beginning of all that you see?

+mathig nihilcek You sir don't seem to have understandings of machine learning, neural networks, fussy logic, genetic algorithms or fitness functions. There is no requirement for neuron-like node systems at hardware level to archieve conciousness related processes. Your tipical desktop computer is already billions of times faster for number crunching and math operations than all the humans on earth *combined*. The problem isn't the computational power so much as it is the lack of an effective all-round, general purpose, stimulus based learning algorithm.