All priors go out the window, unless you consider Homo sapiens winning out as a prior, then you know what will and must be done. It stems from whether or not you believe we are witnessing the creation of an intelligent subspecies. I do. PS: notice I didn’t say super intelligent. If it is ASI that’s been achieved in (relative) secrecy, we don’t even need to have these debates. You don’t need to adjust your doom clocks because such a thing cannot be stopped.

Unfortunately AI safety is an illusion at best.

I hope the hardcover is cheap 😅🥲

Thanks man, this is so beautiful ❤

Sounds evolutionary

All drama, no information, zero solutions. As connor would say, you need to work on your memetic hygiene.

I love this guy

Dr. please stop simulating old film imperfections with the charts. For me, it's highly distracting. I feel like a cat chasing a laser beam from the hand of an epileptic .

A year after this video came out and the AI hype is even worse. Microsoft and Meta declaring they'll spend $100 billion each over the next 5 years to build massive AI data centers and put AI in everything. Everyone jumping on the bandwagon with a severe case of FOMO.

RIP PROFESSOR ❤

Overall, I think Hotz did better here. His position is more optimistic and more reasonable.

too much talk outside of the interview.

It's kind of funny to watch two guys I could knock down with one finger debate the more rarefied dimensions of personal emancipation. This is why people like Andrew Tate have acquired a harder sort of credibility in these times; in the kind of winner-take-all situations discussed here someone like Tate would quickly assert himself over glib nerds espousing high-flown philosophies they couldn't possibly implement given the limitations of their physicality and life experience. I happen to like and respect both of these dudes as scholars and intellectuals, but they are way out of their depth talking about life in Somalia and Terminator-style scenarios.

It's good book! Thanks Chris!

awesome talk thanks!!

10:04 "Code is Data" is especially clear in Linear Algebra. A vector |v⟩ is data. A function is code. But a vector also canonically defines a linear function: x ↦ ⟨v∣x⟩.

I came to this video because of Wes Roth

There are negative forms of symbiosis, it has become quite a bad buzzword to use. Especially if we get VIKI.

1:14:20 Wouldn't Godels Incompleteness indicate that it's not possible to prove all facts of the universe from finitely generated axioms in higher order logic? Edit:Nvm, watched more

As long as humans and human artefacts are part of the AIs environment, we'll influence the AI. However, even in the case of Sydney, our influence wasnt intentional, and we weren't steering it in a purposeful direction. So our influence was irrelevant to whether or not it ended up doing what we actually wanted. So far, humans have always needed bacteria to survive. But we don't bend to their will.

Dude stop reading neuro"science" it's pretty dumb. I am a physicist and have been looking to how accurate different sciences are, and if physics and chemistry are pretty accurate, let's say 7/10" anything related to how humans work or behave is less than 4/10. Every 20-30 years we have to admit how stupid we were 20 years before. Your man sam that sounds smart is indeed like a gpt, he will tell you the dumbest shit in a very convincing manner.

140IQ on left, 115IQ on right

Connor is just consistently derailing the conversation with highly sensationalized and emotional retorts. Sure Connor, a random asteroid liquefying the earth would be bad. Let's act together right now to offset the earth by who knows how many kilometers in who knows what direction. That'll certainly prevent the inevitable doom of this liquefying asteroid that's totally going to come for us someday.

Does anyone else think that they both could be variants of each other? They both look like eventual outcomes from the same seed person.

2:07 so glad you mentioned Schmidthuber. 😅

"The dark side of the Force is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural” - 48:35

How many years away are we from "Lets replace human players with humanoids who can respond better to our AI tactical algorithm providing real time positioning, "velocity" and instructions"? Convince me the game will actually be better with all teams working through tactics generated by machines. We will arrive at a very bland brand of the game where everyone predicts each other and responds accordingly to a dire state - individuality will be punished, collective styles will be punished, unique team compositions will be punished. etc. Look at what Petar assumes coaches actually do - 17:09 - "It will free up coaches to do LESS of staring at situations and more of the actual creative and actionable decision making part" - He doesn't understand that creativity isn't something you arrive at, its the result of the very process that technology is replacing. Ask an artist if their creativity is truly manifested when they prompt stable diffusion to spit out 20 images in a minute OR when they spend 2 hours painting 1 image? The PROCESS is the creative part. The "Creative Decision Making" IS the result of the boring "Staring at situations" part - without that you might as well give a monkey 4 options to choose from and go from there. Also, Who would actually enjoy that sanitized version of the sport? Another case of technologists pillaging industries/fields they have no attachment or stake in (so they don't care what they destroy). They're doing it to art, doing it to sport....go solve real problems that are facing humanity - ecological crisis, affordable housing crisis, global energy crisis etc. instead of continuing to destroy the last remaining bastions of human existence & creativity. AI technologists are the human version of lemurs running us off the cliff. Ask how many technologists studied the humanities alongside their software development, statistics courses etc, next to none. This is why you have technologists who don't understand the social and human impact of the work they are pursuing, more importantly, why they don't care. Is the technology cool? Sure but just because you can do something, doesn't mean you should.

Can I read this even I have no Idea about AI Engineering or coding? I don't even know calculus it seems it has a lot calculus inside the book I think couldn't understand it when I'll start reading this book btw I'm still interested to read this book because I've a plan to take AI engineering course.

This is a fascinating topic, but it's hard to focus because the greatest mystery is why he decided on that facial hair. I can see where he has stubble on his cheeks and further down his neck, so he could grow a full beard, but he's gone for a ridiculous looking chin strap. He needs to grow it on his cheeks, but most importantly his neckline is WAY too high and it's so bad it's actively distracting.

Every researcher on planet earth want the bitter pill to be false. What's more exciting: 1) get more data + GPUs 2) engineering smart solutions

Discussing a made up example (Paperclip) instead of understanding the concepts behind the example proves that he has not even undertstood the example in the first place. It hurts my brain to listen to the guy on the right. Why is he here?

Deep learning is hard?

After a month, I found that the conversations were too low quality, with a bit too much passive aggressiveness. For example, there’s a bot / troll with the fake name Phil, with a completely CGI avatar. People say weird things when they hide behind robotic avatars. From the Maven I saw, it will be a passing fad with a small cult following and no monetisation.

Wait! Do I lose something? We created the tool of deep learning, but we do not understand how and why it works?

The british engineer is spot on. Respect sir for your clear vision and clarification of the BS sold by Google marketeers.

Connor Leahy is the most distinct and acute voice in AI. Can't remember the last time I disagreed with him on anything he's said.

I am from Pakistan sir and a big fan of yours. Thank you for making this available for us in the third world

ethics is @ the end so teach people how to do it and then throw in the ethics interesting

Rest in peace, Professor Dennett, one of the greatest philosophers of all time. A modern-day Bertrand Russell.

RIP Dan Dennett :( April 19 2024 due to complications of interstitial lung disease. Thank you for everything. The world is a better place because of him.

• Townsquare node (1:15:00) why not.

I always love to hear more from Connor. Daniel was great, too! The 'outside view' of lines on graphs seems especially important right now. It's difficult to imagine that nearly every measured aspect of AI's competence will become significantly more advanced in the next few years, while AI somehow just never gets any better at autonomously pursuing open-ended goals. If the ceiling on coherence and agency somehow turns out to be just below human-level for the current paradigm, I would call that a life-saving miracle. (As long as we don't then turn around and immediately try to pursue new paradigms.) As things stand, without a moratorium, I expect lines to continue going up on graphs until someday this decade, we stop being relevant to the future of the planet.

I was thinking at some point maybe AI can watch and analyse football matches, and automatically rate players top speeds, agility etc, or maybe even rank the best players. Exciting times!

a person who focuses so much on the perceived extenal is not someone worth listening too. There is nothing out there to change, because there is no out there. The only thing to change is you. Love your channel but only made it about 3 minutes into this one and that was generous lol Not worth listening too

Superb conversation that really goes up a notch after 50 minutes to discuss AI in solving scientific problems (I've been interested in HPC for some time). I ordered the book midway thru watching. It was fascinating to see them discussing all of the topics that the current AI developments are leaving open for future research questions. Tho it's fascinating to me that his son, and co-author, is working at Wayve. Essential perspective on DL.

Love the look on your shots. Which G Master lenses are you using? 50mm? 35?

Sounds like lisp

I wanted to root for Beff but damn...

Beautifully produced! Love these types of videos from you. The amount of work that goes into creating one of these videos is mind boggling. Serious kudos. What a service you’re doing for the current and future generations of technologists.

I agree with jesus here, but not necessarily with how the debate (if that is what it is) has been conducted. It's annoying to listen to. Give it some structure, let each other talk and finish sentences, then respond. YW.