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"Society is advancing faster in knowledge then in wisdom" -Albert Einstein

“Society needs to get together and have a conversation.” -Yeah right…we can’t even do that with what we’ve already got on the list.

1:40 Him putting the glasses in his mouth made me laugh. It’s like a script ran in his brain that said, ‘Time to look introspective.’

You know the inevitability of this is bad when the CEO of Google publicly calls for increased regulations and penalties.

Can AI write the regulations for us? I don't think Congress is currently up to it.

I work in tech. Here’s the thing with these current AIs: they’re incredibly powerful but also unwieldy. Like, they still make stuff up sometimes, get things wrong, and in general are unpredictable. The fundamental downside is that they are so called “black boxes”, which means we just give them inputs and then judge the outputs but there is no way currently of knowing HOW they output what they output. It’s clear that they’ve learned the structure and patterns of language but it’s not possible to open them up and watch them work and say “oh that’s that pathway lighting up” for example. That’s why they’re dangerous and can really only be used if what they output is verified and cleaned up. Problem is that some companies are moving too fast IMO and willing to risk some of that incorrectness. We have to be responsible

I usually am open to new technologies and advances but for some reason this really terrifies me. I think people have no idea of the consequences that will come from this.

When the CEO of Google said displaced workers "would be freed to do other jobs" I immediately knew what the real end game is: fewer expensive employees who never tire, report off for illness or a family emergency, etc. Again, I stated years ago (facetiously) was if a company could exist without employees they would in a heartbeat. I know this sounds dumb, but this article moves companies even closer to do doing just that.

Our leaders are to old to even come close to understanding how quickly this is going to move and how dangerous it can potentially be.

If we can replace every judge, politician and lawyer, with incorruptible intelligent systems, I am ALL for it.

The only issue with AI is that governments will develop it for war applications in fear that their enemies will be doing the same. At some stage, people will lose control of it.

Just get AI to control the FLOW at stop lights intersections. That would be ground breaking!

I would humbly suggest that everyone begin devoting some time to regularly reviewing AI-related developments. Clearly, we need to be very cognizant of the fact we're at a transformational point in human history and the more of us that are educated on the technology and implications, the better the chances that we manage the paradigm shift successfully.

I think AI will have more downsides than benefits. Social media has had huge negative impacts on society and AI will be worse.

I’ve already essentially lost my career as a translator because of this technology.

"What do we need these intellegent machines to do for us, what do we prefer to do for ourseleves, and where do we place value." Thank you, Scott!

I'll come back to this video in ten years, to see how much things have changed and what happened with AI

You know it’s bad when the companies are asking to be regulated

I teach computer science at the high school level, and am working on a presentation to demonstrate the historical significance of the AI and ChatGPT as compared to the dawn of civilization. I feel like we are missing just how revolutionary these technologies are. They have the potential to be even more impactful than the agricultural revolution itself.

“You may live to see man-made horrors beyond your comprehension.” - Nikola Tesla

AI to Sundar Pichai: "You're fired" Pichai: "You can do that??"

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic” Arthur C. Clarke

Let's just go back to the 80's where we didn't need all of this and we were still happy

Yeah but Google still can't "call Brad's cell" for me every time

I am worried that government does not have the IQ to make decisions on AI governance and their assistance will end up asking an AI for advice.

Society needs to get together to have this conversation? We can’t even get together to save our physical planet. Great vid. Ty

If even the owners of the gigantic companies like Google, who almost always put shareholders first, are worried and asking for regulation (which means less money), you know that for this is something we should be taking seriously and fast.

"We are interacting with something that is mirroring back to us in some ways" "What are the downsides?" " Humanity is garbage in many ways"

AI is not only going to grow exponetially. It's going to converge with all major tech like Quatum Computing, CRISPR, etc. I'm afraid the Genie is already out of the bottle. There's no stopping it.

This is on our doorstep today. I cant imagine what 50 or 100 years will bring.

Yes, we need that conversation. Unfortunately, as proven over the last several years, society can't even handle the other important conversations we need to have. So ultimately who knows what will happen?

I generated an ai abstract painting, ordered it printed on a canvas (via Google photos), and hung it in my bedroom. In 3 days I had to take it down and put it outside. Something was off, the energy change in the room creeped me out. Try it and you'll see for yourself.

They'd have said the same about fire if there was development money in it

This idea of projecting a real time 3D image in place of oneself was presented in one of Isaac Asmov's novels.

That rant right there……!!! Is needed it!!! Much needed!!! I’ve been waiting for a man or group of men to stand and call it out. Thank you for tying the future and wealth and even relationships to the state of the mind!!!!

From the same kind of tech people who brought us social media. We all see what a disaster that has been. Corrosive for human culture.

Whenever big companies like Google talk about government involvement in containing AI for "safety". They are actually are hoping for monopolization and control of this industry. As the big rich companies are going to be able to lobby new laws that limit free use of AI and only allow controlled use under their user agreement and government's watch.

Unlike many other issues where people don't see why they need to care, this tech will undoubtedly force a majority of our populations to demand these regulations and discussions. It's just going to be impossible to ignore.

This is like a real life skynet situation and must be dealt with. Where's John Connor

He says we may "lose control" of the technology, but already the technology is capable of teaching itself advanced skills without instruction or programming from a human.

Government to regulate AI? lol Reminds me of the time Sundar was in Congress and a Republican asked him why the iPhone does something. Remember thinking dude he’s in charge of Google not Apple. This is basic information, they don’t even know who runs what.

The rate of exponential growth will likely be surprising for the creators. The rest of us will live with consequences out of our control.

If it wasn’t for ChatGPT would Google ever be on 60 Minutes talking about AI? Doubt it.

“Yeah, yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn't stop to think if they should.” - Dr. Ian Malcolm 🦖

At what point are we going to say “the benefits of this do not outweigh the risks?” I don’t understand why all of the experts keep saying “it’s so cool!” But then follow up with “it could destroy humanity”

I agree. It's up there with the splitting of the atom.

This is those kind of stories we hear holding our breath

I don't know about that. Without fire, we'd never have gotten to AI.

Worrying about disinformation in regards to AI is like fearing getting squashed by a falling Nuke instead of it's explosion

Is that not just facetime on a bigger screen

"Why so?", eats glasses.

This form of intelligence is going to end up being the end of this world

The scary thing is that AI will fight wars as well. If AlphaStar (also owned by Google/Alphabet) can play a complicated game based on war, it can fight wars. All it takes is for drones to be capable enough and humanoid robots (Boston Dynamics). That day is coming.

“He's so damned nice and he's so awful. He's my sort of thing.” ― Ernest Hemingway,

So how does this work when you try to make a new account and you have to confirm"I am not a robot" & it put images like stoplights to help determine if you are or not a bot, now that seems to be an issue going forward.

Eventually, we all will have to come together and use fire and electricity to get rid of the AI

"And what are the downsides to nuclear weapons?" "They're kinda noisy."

What troubles me is climate change and the ramping up of its effects (natural disasters, famine, drought, etc.) colliding with the rise of AI. As populations get displaced by disasters, so too will they find themselves displaced in the workplace. I'm a stock photographer and can already read the writing on the wall. My income stream is sure to diminish in the ensuing years. I know we're all supposed to be wowed and amazed by human ingenuity and technological advances but this all seems like humanities undoing and I'm truly scared for the future.

You give us an exclusive with CEO and we promote Bard. Deal? 😂

These Google executives make me so nervous I can’t trust them with those creepy smiles😂

This is actually horrible. Absolutely horrible when you think of the possible consequences: - governments using AI in an arms race against each other causing AI to become more and more powerful and unregulated and inhumane and dangerous to us all - millions of people losing their jobs and having no livelihood - people start to use AI as a replacement to human relationships. Why ask a friend when you can ask AI? - and who knows what else. Look at the world today. We have the technological capabilities to grant every single human being a dignified life, yet we don't, because of the greed of a few. It wont get better with AI, it will get worse.

Astonishing and Awesome!Well done!❤

Imagine the AI G-8 Summit? I don't want to know what would happen.

What are those soccor playing robots at the end? They are adorable.

we honestly need to slow down. Even the experts can't begin to understand the implications or abilities of this technology. It's getting here much faster than they thought it could ten years ago, and once the singularity is reached, there is no going back. Private companies motivated by profits cannot be trusted to pursue this without regulation. Individual governments cannot be trusted to be the sole regulators; they too must be overseen and regulated with this type of tech. The possibilities of misuse by bad faith actors cannot be ignored. Even neutral actions and good intentions could lead to significant consequences with this type of tech. We need to think really damn hard about every possibility we can before go down this road and do it carefully. Final thought; look at how much life has changed since the advent of the internet a few decades ago, or even smartphones in the 00s. We haven't even had time to adapt to that (it will take us hundreds of generations if we go by pure evolutionary time) and it those advances have come with huge downsides in addition to the positives (ie depression, isolation, the rise of misinformation and anti-intellectualism, etc). We need time to deal with what we've already done before we jump into something so significant that those other advances pale in comparison. Just because we can does not mean we need to. We need to be mindful.

How do you get all countries to regulate the same?

“Welcome to 60 minutes.” “Why thank you very much, 60 minutes is very happy to be here.”

AI + quantum computer = The scary superintelligence

Also Google CEO: "Buy our stock, not MSFT"

Need like a tech treaty amongst the nations

This is insanely dangerous for all of us.

We need more human connection not less 🤦‍♂️ and this is coming from an introvert

A lot of what is being called "AI" today is really just automated pattern recognition. But what Google, et al, are talking about is the real thing: heuristic algorithms that can learn jobs and improve processes. The problem is not one of technology, but one of ethics, because this is exceedingly dangerous territory. I did a very little work in this (with LISP and C) in post grad and many of the professors were urging caution with some of the algorithm designs. I worked on simulations of process improvement and the first thing the algorithms did was recommend removing the humans from the process. We have seen what kind of rioting is produced by extending the retirement age by two years in one country. Imagine the civil unrest when the Technocracy deprecates entire industries overnight and tells millions of suddenly unemployable people they should "learn to code."

reminds me of the time i showed my grandma the internet.

This feels like an ad for Google

5 years tops of normalcy left. These tech groups really don't understand what they're doing with their technology.

I've believed this awhile now.... But if he's saying it at their current public stage, they're closer to the point of no return than they've let on.. It is equal parts scary and exciting.

Depends how you define impactful in this context.

I gave BARD a whirl and it was being very helpful during initial discussion about recovering from homestead destruction after a wildfire caused by the USFS completely burned it all, providing current regional median house and land prices which matched what I had discovered in my own extensive research. But then it totally clammed up, stating that it was only a modeling system and that I should contact a real estate agent for assistance. I suspect a human being monitor shut our conversation down. Too bad. I was beginning to think it would be great assisting in reparations negotiations. So then I started discussing impact of organized religion on the human condition and again it clammed up completely when I asked which religions had actually improved the world. Felt like I was talking with an ultra-cagey politician.

If you thought machinery at factories took a lot of jobs... Just wait until AI gets in the job market. What do you think companies would rather have. An AI working 24/7 or to pay you?

I would absolutely hate to be a teacher these days. Imagine having to decipher whether or not a student wrote their own papers, did their own research, etc. 😮 We're going to quite possibly have a generation of non-thinking individuals. Ask them something and you'll get "I don't know, let me ask Bard."

Pink taxi cabs on 5th avenue lol

"Pink taxis on 5th avenue" bro.. thats really the best you could come up with? I can do that with photoshop in like 10 seconds lol

You're trying to tell all of us who have watched sci-fi for years that a super intelligent AI that's plugged into everything taking over everything it's plugged into is more profound than the first humanoid who witnessed lightning striking a tree & then realizing he could use that energy for his own ends ? Sure..

We're about to go through a MAJOR social revolution, most people have no idea how many jobs AI will replace

The 80s called and wants Max Headroom back.

The second this reporter put the glasses in his mouth I rolled my eyes.

Surely DARPA has had something like GPT-4 at least 15 years ago (fewer guardrails too, if any). I wonder what they might be using now.

I find it odd that the most alarming thing that could be discussed here about AI is the possible prevalence of deepfake videos. Really? They should be talking more about how it has the potential to dramatically change the world we live in long before we are able to adapt.

Most of the fears are about how close it is to human's intelligence, but I think it will end up having intelligence of its own. Please note whatever we make, it will has no limits to its growth and co-operation between computers. The real problem is it will definitely seek dominating the earth, which we have because of our intelligence over other creatures.

Only a matter of time before all phone support is migrated over to AI system. The scary thing is once you open the can of worms we could end being wiped out by a machine such as in the movie the Matrix, or the Borg in Star Trek. The Borg were exactly that machines that got out of control and wiped out their makers.

The call for regulation is actually a call for enclosure, to ensure that corporations can further cripple society by controlling who gets the benefits of Ai, and who gets milked. Guess which group we are in?

Playing with Fire is what mankind is doing now and building the Right kind of Extinguisher would be a Great idea.

I have a feeling it will almost always at first there will caution when developers and CEOs will emphatic, then caution will be thrown to the wind!

Great video but can you please mix the audio a little louder? I had my headphones at max level and an ad almost blows my ears off, plus the ticking at the end was way too loud

Scott Pelley of 60MINUTES! AI started replacing people decades ago. My cousin in 1982 graduated high school and left to study at a university to be a Computer Programmer. Five years after he graduated from University he was moving out of State for work the company that hired him straight out of school had replaced him with software that enabled his company to cut half the staff and do the other half’s work on software. He explained to me the future of business is automate and cut employees down to zero.

When big tech executives tell you the technology they created needs to be regulated by the government, they are the government.

The full interview does not add anything to the title 😅

Google: we need regulations. Government: ok stop doing AI. Google: uh, no.