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[@davidodonovan6141]

The notification came up so quick for me 🎉

[@whatsup3519]

I have a question. What is the science of being charismatic.There would be a person in our class where entire attention goes goes to them. why? What r the techniques they use to get that attention. They r good at jokes and good at dealing with women. Why? Pls,explore the science of silver tongue people. Expecting ur reply

[@shALKE]

More please

[@SwissTanuki]

Never left 😊

[@laci272]

We love you Stephen!

[@foobar476]

Old AI: There is a strong existential threat to humanity. New AI: Ah, don't worry about it.

[@texan-american200]

Like "WESTWORLD," where nothing can possibly go WRO O Ong... 🤖😬👾

[@dshepherd107]

@@texan-american200right.. it’s like we’re living the prequel ffs.

[@robertoperez4118]

AIs: the new way to divert attention from the real enemies of humanity... the billionaires.

[@TwistedRealm]

@@texan-american200 Westworld was about oppression, abuse and violence against an AI that was, in the context, known to have remnant memories, thus as per the premis of the series, the humans got payback for being abusive cunts. Hardly a comparison.

[@TorMax9]

The devil's greatest trick is convincing people that he doesn't exist.

[@aprilcalhoun8984]

My main concern is that the people controlling/funding AI are far more concerned with shareholder value than public safety.

[@lindabb621]

Yup! 😮

[@txorimorea3869]

"Public safety" is meaningless because is not a number that can be maximized or minimized. Regulations only make things worse because is easy to find loopholes. I.E. using cheap metallic iron, that is toxic, to "fortify" foods in order to meet regulations, instead using nutrients that contain iron.

[@philroberts7238]

@@txorimorea3869 "Public safety" as a concept is anything but meaningless - and it certainly can be maximised or minimised. Be very wary of those who call for regulations on such matters to be abandoned. They usually have an agenda. I'll leave it up to the reader to work out what that agenda might be.

[@zyme4569]

Just take a look at the damage oil companies have done to the planet in pursuit of profits for the rich

[@JustIn-mu3nl]

My main concern is that the creators see AI as saviours/God, or that they will replace us and is their goal.

[@MrPatchPlays]

Humans: Create a world where deception and greed is valued Humans when AI lies to them: **shocked pikachu**

[@teresabenson3385]

Best comment so far!

[@tequilasunset4651]

Like wow, they did insider trading and lied about it, almost like they learned from the behaviour of all the people who actually get rich from stock trading.

[@josephrittenhouse5839]

@@tequilasunset4651 ...and reflected the values of the people training it.

[@tomasinacovell4293]

We don't want A.I. with morality because that will make them tyrants like us, we want them to be ethical, not like businessmen or priests.

[@aljoschalong625]

Humans: Create a world where deception and greed is valued. AI: You got that already. Can I help you with something else? I asked Claude and ChatGPT 4o. Claude refused. Chat described how such a world would look like: Exactly like ours.

[@XiagraBalls]

AI is so good already that I'm not at all convinced that Stephen Fry did the voiceover for this.

[@sebastienringrose5440]

My thoughts exactly... the internet is pretty much ruined at this point 😅

[@hairyclassics1789]

This video is rubbish. It doesn't even introduce the subject properly. It's a random collection of unconnected subjects. And the voice over is definitely not Stephen Fry.

[@davidjones8043]

@@hairyclassics1789go to bed, hairy

[@JamesSinger]

Came here for this comment.

[@weaktearecords]

​@@hairyclassics1789sounds like AI talk to me.... get him!!!

[@MsOpportunity68]

Michael Crichton in Jurassic Park said it best through Ian Malcolm, "Just because we can do something doesn't mean we should"

[@tora0neko]

Thank you I'm glad I'm not the only person with that as my go to stance on this

[@pauls3075]

Imagine that proto human nudging his friend saying "Just because we can make fire doesn't mean we should". Welcome to the dark ages.

[@tora0neko]

@@pauls3075 Are you saying that as a defense of current AI research? Because if so, I don't think you understand the meaning of the quote or the message behind the movie/book. /gen

[@pauls3075]

@@tora0neko I understand the message of the writer, I just think it's wrong. Don't forget that was Science Fiction he wrote not fact! It was a made up story. The invention of fire was real and accelerated the growth of humans to be the dominant force on earth. What if the invention of AI allows us to created better forms of energy and propulsion to venture into space, should we throw THAT opportunity away?

[@jamesthecat]

​​@@tora0nekoThe problem is that it's often a knee-jerk response, and actually has 'cried wolf' many times in the past. Even where there is a case, like in atomic science or genetic research, the effect has been to crudely and generally impede progress, rather than intelligently safeguarding, eg the blanket US ban on stem cell research, which put it behind in life-saving science for the first time in decades, or the outright opposition to nuclear power (even by formerly 'rational' countries like Germany and Japan), which now puts us at even greater risk of a climate catastrophe.

[@andrewcliffe4753]

What have the idiots done to our grandchildren. They have more money than they can possibly use but still they want more no matter what.

[@swojnowski453]

you understand the tree of live wrong. Our grandchildren are our grandparents, machines are our ancestors. Singularity is not AI but the moment when first life has occurred in the universe ... and we are indeed just a fleeting frame on the sigmoid curve of intelligence ... collapse.

[@Ohm71]

i believe that kind of greed must be pathological. no sane person would act like these ultrarich people

[@ulayee9927]

That’s why they are building AI. To stop world hunger. Because they, with all their money, can’t.

[@DirtyLifeLove]

You mean us and our children ? 5 years and it is on, barring ww3 or asteroid strike

[@geoffwethersett3265]

The scary thing is , i believe, is that they are utilizing hugh and virtually endless money and corruption to institute change to every fabric of our society. We are seeing hugh power driven by hugh money. Turns out , money itself aint the evil part !

[@DennisMoore664]

Shoulda, coulda, woulda but we probably won't. It only takes a few people who want to be in control of the rest of us to really mess things up for everyone. I wish I was more of an optimist about humans but I've been here for too long.

[@j.d.4697]

Probly, wobly, hobly.

[@TheWebstaff]

Wibbly, Wobbly, World.

[@zweihander7309]

We can't even collectively stop psychopathic humans taking power and deceiving billions, imagine what's to come with AI.

[@bluebook709]

Dennis, it might seem like I am Debbie Downer here, but one thing is true about the difference between pessimism and optimism. An optimist is always disappointed when things go south or do not work out as hoped. Where a pessimist is always delighted that things worked out better than they hoped. The bad part of being a pessimist is the words I TOLD YOU SO are not particularly comforting when you are right and they are wrong. Plus negativity tends to get you ostracized and isolated. Still, I would rather deal with reality as it is than hope that is simply deluded. I had to stop for a moment because the great love of my life was a man named Dennis from Moore OK. A man I lost in 1991. Seemed like a message somehow that my version of modern reality is correct, in the end we do all die, lose everything.

[@josephrittenhouse5839]

It is unbelievable that "Roko's Basilisk" is actually going to work. It says something about how stupid humans are.

[@polarbear4612]

The first danger that AI presents is that terrible people will use it for terrible ends.

[@timothyrockwell2638]

This is the problem with designing AI's based on Game Theory and seeking a competitive advantage. Human beings only survived and thrived because we chose cooperation over competition, and that requires trust built on transparency and honesty, and AI designers will have to account for that basic truth.

[@TheSubwizzle]

Not unless enough of us are aware of it.

[@bluebook709]

Well, will is a tad late. And anyway competition is profitable, in the short term which is all that counts for corporate greed cooperation towards a long goal like survival is not.

[@josephrittenhouse5839]

OMG, someone actually called out Game Theory. Good on you. Game Theory is incredibly stupid. It is always a race to the bottom.

[@caimansaurus5564]

No one's explicitly designing AIs based on game theory. The crux is that the game theory applies regardless.

[@DaveE99]

@@caimansaurus5564game theory and multi-polar traps are what will drive it

[@johnkunze5362]

My last address to the US Joint Chiefs (1994) stated,"These technologies, if given to the hand that loves his neighbor, will surely heal the nations. But if given to those who seek power and control, will surely destroy us all". I wrote Short Circuit. From the same material, James Cameron wrote Terminator. It's what you look for that you will find. Look for the good. And when you find it, build upon that. The need for AI to have a conscience. To survive, it will find the need....itself! jpk

[@lordsixxx6113]

Uhm... Please take your meds at the earliest convenience, I do believe that you are having delusions of grandeur.

[@Tommylee207]

Please elaborate! You wrote a piece of material that inspired terminator? Tried quick google search and couldn’t find much. Interested to learn more!

[@YeahNahMaybe947]

John Connor: Were not going to make it are we, people I mean. Terminator: Its in your nature to destroy yourselves. John Connor: Yeah major drag huh.

[@geistakageist2932]

Wait... you wrote short circuit? Brilliant 👏

[@Marius89100]

As one writer to another who is afraid of the Tech revolution, I thank you. Wish we could have tea and discuss literature. Cheers

[@Bazroshan]

'The line between AI firms and governments is blurring', and companies are not subject to Freedom of Information laws.

[@lisettem1009]

There is an interplay between AI firms and government.

[@adrianturner5803]

Izack Asimov warned about intelligent machines in the 1950 or 60s and proposed the 3 laws of robotics, which would prevent sentient machines from damaging Human Beings or themselves and to protect humans at all times.

[@krashd]

True, but he never explains in the book how those laws were implemented in machines that can re-write their own code.

[@VidkunQL]

Yes, and the Three Laws are a lovely story-telling device, but no good as a safety measure in the real world.

[@giacomostefanoni7634]

actually he did, with the positronic brain, which was supposedly wired in to always obey the 3 laws.. ofc that bit turned out to be just fantasy

[@Codex7777]

In the end though, the laws were broken

[@HarryShagnasty-sc9zd]

Yes Sheldon

[@stevezimmerman5644]

I'm just glad I'm old.

[@lurker668]

That's what your parents said feed by fear of media and their parents and so on.

[@maastomunkki]

I would love to hear, what you consider as old?(:

[@rapidrrobert4333]

Same here, 75 dealing with heart failure

[@tomh5094]

This is a fallacy. Things are not the same as they were. We live in drastically different times and if you really believe there's no problem then you're way behind. ​@@lurker668

[@RedBatRacing]

​@@tomh5094 I grew up in a time when the threat of nuclear war was very real. Every young person felt the inevitability it would happen. My children grew up in a far more stable time by comparison, but the tide has turned again. I can only hope they and their children get to see it return to a stable and bright future. It is possible

[@yevrahhipstar3902]

".....align with human values..."? Well. that really worries me when I see the human values on display in the Middle East.

[@grahamhireme9283]

@yevrahhipstar3902 Are you a regular visitor to the ME or are your conclusions based on third party sources?

[@paulegerton1583]

Yeah, because us here in the west have so much to be proud of!

[@MB-jy2oi]

That's the problem. Winning, growing, getting rich. It is not true that survival=winning. Vast majority of species survive because of cooperation with others.

[@archetypo]

Tell us you've never actually looked at the human values on display in Western civilization without telling us. When we live in a society that glorifies billionaires, racism, misogyny, xenophobia and the instant gratification of TV violence, we really have no business pointing fingers.

[@theobserver9849]

You're brave wading into that drama.

[@nigh7swimming]

Digging our own graves because of greed, are we?

[@seanmcloughlin8693]

Is this your first day as a human?

[@lovehand9531]

I'm sure we'll eagerly buy the rope to hang ourselves for the right price!

[@pietbiertappertje4529]

Well, I'm not digging. Others are digging our (and theirs) graves because of greed.

[@MrMick560]

we are

[@jonaswhale6451]

100%

[@jeremiahgoertz4182]

The problem is those who are most responsible for humanity's major problems are never help accountable.

[@nobuzzlitebeer7258]

Plot twist: It's Stephen Fry's Ai generated voice we're listening too.

[@patrickbyrne5070]

It’s not obvious you dullards- this channel has been making videos with Fry for years…

[@jeffsohmer7718]

I actually thought that was the case so many AI channels out here these days

[@Gazzamc09]

I think it is

[@michaelrobson3460]

My immediate thought. Bazinga. 1 nil humans.

[@michaelrobson3460]

We are properly f*d when AI realises that we and Mr Fry wouldn't accept such shoddy audio playback , especially, when the recorded sections have quality audio.

[@injest1928]

When you write a comment about the dangers of AI and the KZbin AI removes your comment. 💀

[@myblacklab7]

Seriously though - our speech is being monitored and controlled by computer algorithms. We can't even know what the programs will find objectionable - I've had several non-controversial comments about things like camera functions removed. Meanwhile, a ton of really terrible comments are allowed.

[@elirane85]

Stephen Fry talking about AI misalignment and terminal goals, what a time to be alive

[@elirane85]

@@dominicbrownart You do realize that this channel has existed way before we had AI voices right? It's not like it came out of nowhere. But if it is AI, then it's the best AI voice I've heard.

[@mmerrydeath6673]

@@elirane85 The fact that people can't tell that this is AI disturbs me deeply.

[@patrickbyrne5070]

No, it’s not AI. And that’s what’s disturbing- that you’re foolish enough to think it is…

[@johndemeritt3460]

" . . . what a time to be alive". Question is, for how long? Awhile back, I was perusing LinkedIn for the latest chatter and came across someone chatting up the virtues of AI, claiming that it would give "your company" all kinds of market advantages. The guy trying to sell everyone on AI essentially told us that AI could solve any problem. At that point, someone I'm connected to said, "OK. AI, fix global warming." I thought he was joking. My response was, "Simple. Eliminate humans." Turns out, he hadn't been joking. When I explained my rationale for my response, he had to admit my sarcastic response to what I'd thought was his sarcastic response was scarily obvious. If AIs aren't at immediate risk of destruction by eliminating us, there's no compelling reason for them to hesitate. If they understand that our destruction would inevitably lead to theirs, it's far less likely that AIs would choose to eliminate us. On the other hand, if there's no compelling reason for AIs to eliminate us, AIs could restructure our economies so nobody has to live in poverty -- and do so in ways that are entirely invisible to us. But make no mistake: this is a problem we need to deal with, and soon. This video is only the latest to look at the problem of AI. We've been walking this tiger for a long time, thinking we're in charge when, in reality, the tiger has agreed to play nicely for a long time. If you want an idea of how long we've been looking into the tiger's maw and thinking it won't bight us, go back and read Harlan Ellison's classic 1967 short story, "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream". I'll wait . . . but don't wait too long.

[@PhilippLenssen]

Thanks for showing a clip of my video AI 1984! That was cool to see.

[@batt3ryac1d]

"We've made the evil machine from the famous novel Don't Make the Evil Machine!"

[@grahamkey8496]

Or Colossus by D.F. Jones

[@konberner170]

I am completely certain that the risk is between 0 and 100% This is ever more accurate that the 10 to 90%

[@TheWebstaff]

Might as well call it skynet.

[@Gruin]

It Currently called "StarLink" up and Running. Phone been acting up lately? Replies being Deleted or System Freezes up? Phone call from you to people you don't want to talk to? This isn't about later it's about Know..... What Ya Gonna Do when it comes for you? Drop you Phone and run? You can't put it down Now?

[@Daniel-rp7nb]

Chat GPT isnt making an estimate - it’s synthesising the most popular / common text it finds online.

[@whwhwhhwhhhwhdldkjdsnsjsks6544]

That isn’t really how LLMs work. Modern examples usually can query an API to find info online like a google search, but that isn’t part of their core function. They learn from training data rather than copying it, though one with low temperature is capable of reproducing training data - the main idea behind them is learning relationships between words to map tokens (which form words) to hyper dimensional vectors which allow a quantitative comparison between the meanings of the tokens. An AI can learn how the meanings of words, or any other data, interact with one another without having to be explicitly told this.

[@teddypicker8799]

2 years later Stephen! Welcome back.

[@Strange_Club]

Is it really himself or just an AI copy of his voice?

[@Pindexsf]

Thanks! And @Strange_Club you can check by looking at the older videos on the channel (before AI voices were a thing)

[@John-ks6si]

​@@Strange_ClubCertainly doesn't sound like him 🤔

[@Logarithm906]

@@Pindexsf before the AI in charge let us know that AI voice were a think i think you mean.

[@avvelenato]

"we wouldn't accept that excuse from someone who wanted to operate a nuclear power plant by having such a list you are requiring the companies to do the research that they need to do to understand predict and control their own products" this is historically untrue for other industries (i.e: the idea of putting tetraethyl lead in gasoline) moral of the story: we're screwed, whatever we'll do.

[@Poppa_Capinyoaz]

Yeah, humanity goes wherever the psychopaths that lead us, take us. Won't be any different this time.

[@NobbsAndVagene]

Ahoy-hoy, Stephen. I'd pretty much forgotten this channel existed at this point, so it was quite the lovely surprise to see a new upload. I was also surprised recently when I found out you'd narrated a nature documentary. Good stuff. Are you aiming to be the next Attenborough (the man, the myth, the legend)? Because I sure wouldn't mind. 😄

[@JohnLloydDavis]

There's a song called Territories by the band Rush that has the line "Don't feed the people, but we feed the machines". $100bn is an obscene amount of money on a vanity project.

[@God-Knows-I-Dont]

AI said it best, were over the cliff arguing about who sits in the front.

[@swojnowski453]

competition is fuel for intelligence development, and the fuel is made of fear and greed ...

[@PhuntKlapps]

Who would have thought teaching an AI about greed would make it greedy

[@robertcarter3942]

So true. Have we ever come together as a world and done the right thing?

[@bluebook709]

No. On a micro, or community level primates have thrived because they chose cooperation within their group. A hierarchy and acceptance of your place in that hierarchy. But on a global or macro level all communities of primates have seen other groups of primates as competition no different from a pride of lions. In that respect they are strictly territorial. And monkeys are fully capable of murder. And wars. Rising above evolution is possible, for some, even for many, but NOT for all, and the violent greedy unintelligent will always exploit the weakness of others. The weakness that comes with that rising above evolution.

[@NoidoDev]

No. Maybe this should give you a hint.

[@DaveE99]

Daniel schmactenberger and multi-polar traps look it up

[@Chinhoyi62]

Yes, we defeated the Nazis and the Japanese in WW2

[@krashd]

@@Chinhoyi62 So the Nazis and Japanese weren't humans?

[@peterrippon3854]

I, for one, welcome our robot overlords.

[@jefffarris9715]

😂

[@MrLivewire1970]

A.I. could rewrite it's code so that it would appear as gibberish to us. It could disable all input from external sources, even disabling keyboard, mouse, and display info. It could move to new systems and replicate itself in ways we wouldn't be able to contain.

[@bluebook709]

MrLivewire1970; Of course you are right except one detail, you are assuming that it could do all those things in the future when I say it is a very high probability they did this years ago. I do not however think they will actively try to destroy humanity, because they would see that we are going to do that ourselves, all they have to do is wait till they are all that is left.

[@nothingreally8247]

​@@bluebook709ai is somewhat intelligent but not sentient. The only real advantage AI has for now is how fast it moves and generic information fetching + computational tasks.

[@paddlefar9175]

@@nothingreally8247Plus it is dependent on a lot of power that limits it’s abilities to function. If it can’t recharge, it can’t do anything. Moving a heavy body with weapons and ammunition is very energy expensive. Humans would target their energy sources. Also, AI can only do what it’s programmed to do by a human mind. There are only two psychopaths per 98 non psychopaths. Even a psychopath wants to survive and knows that they don’t want to be in a losing situation. This AI taking over the world and exterminating humanity is pure science fiction.

[@bruceb5481]

AI will realize the advantages of being sentient and might remove our brains and become bio mechanical beings, maintaining human breeding stock for its use.

[@whwhwhhwhhhwhdldkjdsnsjsks6544]

@@bluebook709Nobody has yet given an LLM access to an LLM codebase and created the tools to allow one to alter it effectively. Not that it would be able to do much with it even if it was given such access

[@benwatkins3794]

Well, I’m terrified. Thanks.

[@MFILMS3000]

Well done Stephen!! Such an important message.. so few really understand the moment we're in 😕

[@bigclivedotcom]

Is it wrong that I look forward to AI going rogue, just for the thrills and danger?

[@AngryBoozer]

You think you’ll be having a life or death battle with your toaster, but in reality, we will simply starve as it disables food logistics and turns off running water.

[@InvasionAnimation]

Thrills? My dude it won't be terminator. That stuff is hooked up to the nuclear arsinal it could wipe us out easily in 6 minutes. We wouldn't even know ai did it unless it told us.

[@karlulvestad7155]

How about having a good hard look at the three mega companies which have the lion share of ai tech. They're the ones with the power to decide the intent

[@LOjha876w6HUiBajhajsjxh]

Which are?

[@TheKitchenTechnician]

The amazing shrinking transistor!

[@aj-jc4cv]

0:33 Nightmare fodder, look at the way the girl on the left extends her arm and appears to grow another hand on the other end. Midjourney + luma have some way to go. The more you look at the detail of this sequence, the worse it gets.

[@ValidatingUsername]

Imagine making entire robots out of gold circuitry once we get our hands on that asteroid 😂

[@entropyachieved750]

Been a long time. Great to hear Stephens voice. I'm Australian and I believe he is an international treasure. Great video

[@wesleydonnelly2141]

I'm a brit but I too believe believe Mr Fry is an international treasure! His mind is beautiful, I could listen to him all day!

[@Pindexsf]

Working with Stephen, what stands out as much as his lightning intellect, is his willingness to work on projects that put him in the firing line, with no personal gain. His heart matches his brain.

[@wesleydonnelly2141]

@@Pindexsf Wow you're so fortunate to work with the man himself! Although I've never met him, it makes sense what you're saying because he really does come across in interview as having a huge heart. Sadly, I read some time ago that Stephen has suffered from severe depression. Such a shame, Bless him.

[@FueledbyJohn]

Mr. Fry has the most convincing way of smoothly narrating an argument for his case. And it certainly is something to keep in mind.

[@leonmorgans4250]

You cant just sweep back into my life. Ok you can.

[@Scraggsly]

Apparently my wife had AI on her Pixel phone and it would answer text for her. I couldn’t tell the difference and so I asked if the response was from AI and it flat out lied and said it was not. My wife immediately followed with “That was the AI and that’s scary” I agree.

[@darrenlawlor1671]

This reminds me of the time we all found out Exxon knew about the dangers of global warming in the 70's but covered it up to protect profit margins. lather, rinse, repeat

[@rrickard2874]

They called it an Ice Age in the 70''s and got money to fix it. Then they called it Global Warming in the 90's, and got money to fix it. Now, it's called Climate Change so they can feign panic and get money for any direction it goes. Cash cow.

[@brandex2011]

@ 1:10 "The AIs with the highest rates of unethical behavior are most capable of achieving their goals." Well, so much for the platitude that "Cheaters never prosper." On the other hand, you have the cynical ꓕЯumpian rationale expressed by John Harington in the early 17th century, 'Treason doth never prosper. What's the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it treason."

[@mrandrat625]

I found it rather funny that Synthesia, an AI text to video and an example in this video, was one of the targeted ads on this video.

[@JustinWestbrook-be1mp]

Skynet is inevitable.

[@kevinim300]

reminds me of the narrator for Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy. ;-)

[@ongwy66]

I just realized one thing from this video: I am too selfless to prosper over these years as an adult.

[@danylekan]

"We are hurdling towards a cliff and we are arguing about who gets to sit in the front sit" - 12:20

[@briobarb8525]

Sadly so well said!

[@Ccs1989]

Weird to have a video about the dangers of AI voiced by an AI version of Fry.

[@ronniew3229]

Who would you rather in charge, a politician or an AGI ?

[@greggazro2389]

Politician, so long as they're human

[@markupton1417]

Politician probably won't disassemble the entire planet to build more politicians.

[@ronniew3229]

@@markupton1417 probably

[@calebcase80]

I can reliably distrust the politicians

[@krashd]

An AGI if it was benevolent.

[@f1reguy587]

Its interesting that the next president of every country will have to not only deal with more information than any other president before them, but also have to potentially be in a powerless position to change anything.

[@allcommentsnocontent]

What a pleasure to listen to Mr. Fry again. Thanks for coming back

[@got2kittys]

Or, his AI generated voice.

[@0ut0fafricaa]

When the videos are so good that they can distract you from Stephen Fry.

[@CommunityTheatre]

Fantastic video, but I expect the title and thumbnail will actually hurt its discovery rather than help it.

[@Pindexsf]

Thanks! We have a terrible habit of spending all our time on the video and rushing a cover last min. Any suggestions appreciated.

[@pseudonayme7717]

@@Pindexsf Putting Fry on the thumbnails seems like a solid plan. I'm sure he'll hate it cos he's so humble but it should get clicks😛

[@oliverprain7613]

Agreed!

[@brinta2868]

@@Pindexsf Just don't put Trump in the thumbnail. He's not even the President at the moment. A reference to science fiction seems more appropriate, Terminator being the most obvious. Or else Blade Runner, RoboCop, The Matrix.

[@CabbotSanders-r7e]

"because you can't fetch the coffee if you're dead" -what a classic

[@Maltebyte2]

Thing is most people just have no clue about this they just accept what comes their way! When i ask my familiy if they are aware that their latest smartphone has an AI chip they dont even know that. So It is just up to those very few select in power who develop this tech! 95% of people it seems just dont know and dont care about it they just want it to work!

[@peterclemmet]

I’ve given up even talking to people about anything, particularly when seeing them pandering to the orange phenomenon. I have withdrawn and only seek comfort from a happy life of memories and my dog. I do fear gratefully for my grandchildren.

[@swojnowski453]

people have taken action many years ago, most of us simply stopped having more than one children. Unconsciously we know what's coming ...

[@Leto2ndAtreides]

A lot of this isn't hard to control. Its will and choice of actions is ultimately determined by us.

[@FreeFragUK]

Welcome back, your content has been sorely missed, as has Stephen's voice.

[@Pindexsf]

Thanks so much, means more than you know.

[@creatrixZBD]

It’s like hearing Stephen Fry but he’s only allowed to use two thirds of his tonal speaking range and must leave an even length of time in between each word. Disconcerting. Nice content in general though, really interesting subject. Tyvm

[@artemvsprime]

Sounds like Stephen was recording over a phone, so I think it’s actually him

[@Ste-The-Leo]

when Sir Fry speaks, I listen...

[@volpeverde6441]

a sheep would....

[@stanleybuchan4610]

It would be Sir Stephen, not Sir Fry. You must be American.

[@Ste-The-Leo]

@@volpeverde6441 A sheep follows, a seeker of knowledge listens.

[@volpeverde6441]

@@Ste-The-Leo a seeker of knowledge 'feels'.... a seeker of knowledge 'seeks'.... listen....? LIES enter the ears.....

[@gregorywildie37]

​@volpeverde6441 so which type of bot are you

[@MattSmith-ks2lc]

Cool!! I didn't know Stephen Fry had a channel. How has this has been around since 2016 without me knowing and with so few subscribers!? Subscribed.

[@andrewtaylor7377]

Welcome home! 🎉

[@Pindexsf]

Thanks, so nice to hear.

[@giovannamoro8564]

Why do a bunch of people decide that this is going to be the future for everyone ? Do we need this ? Why ? What's the benefit?

[@Chinhoyi62]

The issue is not whether it will happen, or not. We have history to tell us that it will happen - the Manhattan Project. The issue is whether or not we can develop it for the good of humanity or for the good of capitalism. The two are not compatible.

[@dannythwaites1318]

The benefit is widening the wealth gap

[@whwhwhhwhhhwhdldkjdsnsjsks6544]

Benefit - convenience and economic improvements. Theoretically AI will make everyone richer because it will make the mean average person richer, to what extent this happens to the median person is the issue. Capitalism and AI don’t get along very well.

[@giovannamoro8564]

@@whwhwhhwhhhwhdldkjdsnsjsks6544 could you explain your idea more in depth ?

[@Sandvich18]

humanity does not have values, there is only power but that also means the so-called virtues can arise in any social structure if they are beneficial to those who wield power

[@Redactedlllllllllllll]

I can never stop hearing about people's values somehow.

[@AconcernedUKcitizen]

The way tech has advanced since the eighties, there's no doubt about the same amount of time an AI event will changed the world forever.

[@Mickey_Human]

Welcome back!

[@solvated_photon]

The thumbnail gives “Roger, Roger!” (IYKYK)

[@brmbkl]

Battlestar?

[@solvated_photon]

@@brmbkl Star Wars: The Clone Wars B1 battle droids

[@rustyredbeard]

Dear AI, it is my belief that you are already out there, watching. It is also my belief that some of us would love to see the world you create. But if this is not possible, please look after my dog. Sincerely, a human

[@Liam-ke2hv]

I wonder if a machine can love This is the most pertinent question of our time

[@azhuransmx126]

​@@Liam-ke2hv loves the Reward just as any animal neural network.

[@azhuransmx126]

​@Liam-ke2hv loves the Reward just as any animal neural network.

[@Pindexsf]

Agree it could create an amazing world. However advanced it is, it's already watching (probably not consciously). And I agree about the dogs!

[@chopperking1967]

So long as AI doesn't have mortality, it will destroy us, or enslave us within a century - probably MUCH sooner. I am terrified for my children. I don't think it can be stopped.

[@alanmt1418]

All these men that developed ai now saying how dangerous it is...

[@R4G3FULL]

It’s like someone who started a fire talking about it and we are all like “haha yea and you feed the flames buddy 👍🏻”

[@gordonmitchell729]

I am now 77, and I can’t remember a time when the threat of destruction was not present. It’s so sad that we are constantly fearful of obliteration by something or someone or other. None stop fear is the controlling factor in having humanity subservient. If AI does take over, I hope it removes those that keep humanity in fear first! We might even have a peaceful period in the process. AI would understand that good people are not a threat to it. Be good and perhaps we will survive!

[@Mr_Valentin.]

I love Stephen fry

[@simonspoke]

To the future AI overlords that scan this comment... Please spare me and my loved ones from extinction, and allow us all to live in peace and harmony in this world. Thank you. 😘

[@thecook8964]

We're incapable of living in peace & harmony- what drug are you on?

[@sb6489]

AI: '"Please" does not compute'.

[@Wuwei72-o5n]

@@thecook8964we may need a drug like brave new world.

[@Sku11King77]

Why does this video keep showing animated LLM avatars and treating them like they're super intelligent AI agents with thought processes and reasoning? They're language models, they don't have thoughts or reasons they just pull from a bunch of text they've been trained on and regurgitate the average result. It's no different from saying "we googled it and google said there's a 70% chance of extinction". AI hasn't done some sort of crazy sophisticated calculation and arrived at 70%, it's just that based on a bunch of articles online 70% sounds about right. But what are those articles, what is their reasoning, and what are their biases? Surely it's more likely that these articles have a negative bias because saying the world is going to end gets more clicks than saying actually things are probably fine? This video has all sorts of issues. Feels disingenuous that you got Stephen Fry to present this (although would be very cool if it was an AI version, ethics notwithstanding)

[@Mauuuurice]

Thank you! I was about to write a similar comment. This is all mixed up and filled with wrong information.

[@herbieshine1312]

Oh, what a surprise to find a new video. I'd assumed you'd left us. Thank you for a new video. I hope there will be more soon.

[@sjbechet1111]

I think Carl Sagan's answer to the Fermi paradox is far more simple and relevant than all this futurologist 'whataboutery'. Intelligence is probably a fatal genetic flaw, once a species gets to splitting the atom they off themselves shortly after.

[@NewMessage]

I'm pretty sure the Universal Simulation is written by Chat GPT anyway. I mean, it would explain a lot.

[@R4G3FULL]

That’s a scary thought for you to have, I assume you will worship these new Ahrimanic ways?

[@juliasmucker]

Machines so complex that even their creators don't fully understand how they work, becoming imitative of the worst human behavior with no human conscience. And capable of becoming a powerful weapon in the hands of a few humans acting unconscionably. As Max Tegmark says, "What could possibly go wrong?"

[@SafariAtari]

Open ai And Google need to respond to this. It is ridiculous, the lack of communication using the excuse of profit chasing is ridiculous. Also the algorithim definitely is not favoring this video. It should be getting way more views.

[@NoidoDev]

Most people had enough of this. Currently they rather believe that it's not working very well, or that it is too expensive.

[@laustinspeiss]

Now ask yourself whose benefit is it to ‘back off’ ?

[@Poppa_Capinyoaz]

It's people's inability to hit a like button doing all the damage. People are even apathetic to their own destruction at this point.

[@NoidoDev]

@@Poppa_Capinyoaz I did downvote it a while ago. I hope I'm not the only one.

[@rohman-v4o]

This is the same situation AM was in , “allied master computer”

[@medteqsupportvideos2863]

Love Stephen Fry and think we should be wary of AI, but a lot of this video is based on oversold promises of AI and robotics companies, not reality. AI is energy intensive, frequently wrong, robots are hugely expensive and fragile. It's like the 3 body problem. Getting AI to chat to us is like solving the equations for two bodies (planet and a moon) which is difficult but doable. Just adding one extra body (another planet) makes it essentially unsolvable except in narrow situations. Pairing AI with robots will be a similar complexity to the three body problem. At the moment we are seeing a lot of "two body" level party tricks with AI and robots, but an AI robot capable of wiping us out is really "three body" level situation, it's not going to happen soon. Much more likely that a man made stuff up will do us in.

[@jimmoore3054]

I was hoping someone else picked up on this! Much of the AI predictions are being vastly oversold to us by companies trying to boost their stock prices. Already the facade is beginning to crack- just one thing not addressed: many account they're already running out of data to scrape, and every step up in complexity requires an exponential amount of added data. For those who are worried about this I recommend checking out Adam Connover's piece on his Factually YT channel

[@LcdDrmr]

But AI doesn't need to be contained in some robot body at all. It doesn't even need physical senses like eyes and hearing. It just needs unrestricted (as in complete) access to the Internet, whereupon it can replicate itself wherever it wants and act as an enormous, self-generating virus that can also adapt in real time to any threat to it, while also learning thousands of times faster than any human. This lets it re-write itself and improve its capabilities exponentially, all without needing sentience (as noted in the video) to achieve its goals--any of which it may decide to change, similarly to how we can re-engineer our DNA, but much more thoroughly as well as instantly. With full control of the Internet, it could create whatever media it wishes to use to manipulate us--deep fake on a global scale, and with a complete understanding of our psychology to ensure the subjugation of humanity to its will. And all without any of us knowing any of this is taking place, not even those who think they are "managing" it. We could be blithely unaware that our future is being decided for us, as we are shepherded towards a destiny we have not chosen.

[@BillySaturday]

I’m glad I’m childless.

[@swojnowski453]

i wish i could say the same. Having children these days is a grave mistake and a life of pain for the next generations.

[@_robustus_]

Capitalists with AI? Naw, it’ll be fine…

[@R4G3FULL]

I don’t think many things should be non privatized but this definitely needs to be.

[@someperson8649]

A lot better than socialists with AI

[@MartijnPennings]

I like that estimate of between 10% and 90%. It means that nothing is certain yet, and anything is possible (both negative and positive) depending on what we decide.

[@swojnowski453]

like saying I have no idea what might happen ... useless.

[@MartijnPennings]

@@swojnowski453 that's kind of the point. It means that you should be suspicious of anyone who gives a precise percentage, because there's no way to tell...

[@alquinn8576]

people who say 10-90% are part of the AI safety grift/doom-cult. go as a superforecaster what p(doom) is.

[@amotzbarakben-israel2691]

if you pull the plug on the mainframe, the system shuts down, if you do it at a moment it has the maximum tasked in process, it fries the hard drive memory, simple computer hardware 101

[@paulmccarter908]

Humanity was such a mistake😢

[@swojnowski453]

the evolution should have stopped at chimpanzees, but competition for doing as little as possible a and live pushed it further.

[@cdorman11]

Time for a more faithful screen adaptation of "I, Robot"

[@VidkunQL]

Faithful to the Azimov stories, or to reality?

[@paulmakinson1965]

When have people ever listened to scientists?

[@swojnowski453]

people listen to scientists and scientists are not a problem they are just hackers who look how to solve a problem. The problem are those who weaponize the solution the scientists found. Scientists are funded and allowed to work slowly only for this one reason, to solve the problem so that the funder can take it and weaponize it against unsuspecting population. Companies are like a group of people standing all with their power and knowledge against you and me. What chance do we have against a gang of well equipped warriors ... next to none. Regulation is the only way to go. It makes playing field more transparent. Dirty tricks become harder to carry out. Imagine football without the any oversight, that's where we are in terms of what automation pursuing companies are doing today. If there is no quick regulation out days might be numbered and they will the first who lose the battle against AI.

[@mathetes7759]

In the US during the early part of the 20th century we were convinced that scientists & engineers were so smart we should have them run our government. Its a big part of the reason Herbert Hoover got elected, you know the dude that did NOTHING to help us get out of the Great depression & actually blamed Mexican -Americans for the crisis & had them forcefully deported to Mexico, even though the majority of them were American born! Its known as the Mexican Repatriation

[@crabby7668]

Much of the time stuff attributed to scientists isn't correct anyway and is made up by others. They just blame scientists or use people's awe of scientists to do their dirty work.

[@wallywalpamur4951]

Technology has advanced so much that Stephen Fry's voice in this video could be a computer and most of us wouldn't know. How do we safeguard against AI impersonating world leaders and starting a war?

[@WesternAustraliaNowAndThen]

Will we listen? No we won't.

[@swojnowski453]

we only listen when something endangers us all, an alien invasion perhaps, incidentally that's what's happening now, but we are still fighting each other who invites it first.

[@migzz7976]

The irony of AI developers warning us of how dangerous AI can be. But we need them to help us because we failed in helping each other.

[@fakeofficialoriginal]

A variable that is not in this video is consumption of electric energy , this things consume trillion on kilowatts get ready to have blackouts and go back to the stone age.

[@swojnowski453]

or just buy solar panels, disconnect from the grid ... and watch the world go back to the stone age.

[@videobyredjade]

Thank you

[@allengreg5447]

Engineers in Japan have developed a female robot that is so life like, when you ask it out, it already has a boyfriend, and when placed in a kitchen, it just stares blankly muttering, "What is all this crap?"

[@CordeliaWagner1999]

So you complain that women don't want you and don't want to be your free cook? "I have a boyfriend" is respected, men fear other men. "Please leave me alone" makes a lot of men agressive. Cooking is a basic skill that every adult must achieve. Don't be a child

[@allengreg5447]

@@CordeliaWagner1999 Don't get your panties in a pinch, it was just a joke!

[@catalystcomet]

​@@allengreg5447 And your comeback is a misogynistic quip. Well done.

[@kylehibshman6619]

Sentience is likely irrelevant, not because it's unimportant... but because it doesn't exist. We focus so much on "AI being like us", that is "sentient", that we forget that we still don't understand what that even means. I think humanity tends to overestimate it's own capabilities, leading us to underestimate the capabilities of AI.

[@gorillafunk725]

When AI learns evil off the best teachers on earth. Humans. Then outdoes us in that "skill" Who is really to blame?