Nick Bostrom on Superintelligence and the Future of AI

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Beyond the brains of even the most intelligent human beings lies artificial superintelligence, which will have the potential to grow infinitely intelligent at an unbelievable rate.
Most experts agree that we could see the development of superintelligence in our lifetimes, and we’re hopeful for positive outcomes, such as a cure for cancer.
On the flipside though, the future of AI also has the potential to pose serious threats to humanity.
Nick Bostrom, a philosopher and expert on AI ethics, is attempting to fathom the unfathomable so the human race can be ready.
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[@freethink]

What do you think the effects of artificial superintelligence will be?

[@Spike_-rx7bx]

intelligence every human has, every human is unpredictable and have no idea what's going thru their head, if there was a way to keep track or watch what the a.i is doing I think humans would have the advantage to continue or to pull the plug

[@Damremont18]

No, this will simply be, something else the human beings screw up. Of that, there is certainty.

[@Pabkojdim]

@@Spike_-rx7bx I second that humans are unpredictable on a good day or bad day but AI is something that's controllable. Just got to pull plug when done.

[@adriannefluet2896]

Death

[@efisgpr]

No more work

[@nightfury1591]

What makes AI so scary is the background music and the narration.

[@freethink]

Ha. Maybe they will be artificially intelligent enough to market themselves with upbeat music in the future.

[@themanicman8458]

My grandpa always told me that we need to be careful not to outsmart ourselves if we make an AI capable of learning and developing like we can then we've developed the superior being I need to ask you something everyone who reads this when you're walking down the sidewalk and you see a bug I'm willing to bet that at some point you stepped on it instead of walking around it knowingly stepped on it if we create a being more intelligent than us and capable of learning much like us but doing so much faster than us but in terms of intellect we become that bug on the sidewalk are you willing to take the risk that it might decide to step on us instead of walking past us but maybe I'm just some crazy person on the internet overthinking something

[@DrAdityaReddy]

@Dovah Kin lol!! AI will never get smarter than humans? You are dumb af

[@iamfromindia4971]

@@DrAdityaReddy dumbass ASI would have a greater memory with a faster ability to process and analyze situations, data, and stimuli actions. Due to this fact, we can rest assured that the decision-making and problem-solving capabilities of super-intelligent beings/machines would be far superior and precise as compared to those of human beings.

[@jesseperez4185]

My grandpa always told me if I channel my inner energy I can eventually turn into a super sayian

[@themanicman8458]

@@jesseperez4185 he told right all you have to do is work hard enough

[@priyanshupradhan2342]

@@DrAdityaReddy If people could create calculators smarter at calculations than humans why can't they create AI brains smarter than themselves. Also AI brains evolve like any other living brain at a much higher speed.

[@adamarmstrong6646]

The stuff nick says has nearly broke my brain over and over and has changed the way I look at the future drastically

[@cabbie4750]

Let’s get the Detroit become human fans here lol

[@timothymclean]

I was hoping to find at least one fellow Isaac Arthur fan in the comments, but all I find are a ton of people worrying about friggin' Skynet. Guys. The first superhuman AI will be _barely_ smarter than a human. They probably won't even be smarter than human experts in any given field, just smarter than any single jack-of-all-trades human can be in all fields. It's not going to wake up and start finding ways to optimize itself until it turns into a god-machine, any more than smart human brains do.

[@TheRealRickNash]

Ai suggests various ways to stop pollution. Humans, aware of their own failures, still don't give a thing about it.

[@jojo101181]

Here is something to ponder. Why are we so fixated on outer space,when we don't even know what's in our oceans

[@arielgarcia8570]

We will have the power to create drones that can cover the ocean looking for whatever is in it with the power of ai

[@jojo101181]

@@arielgarcia8570 the technology already exists. I find it funny that more emphasis is not placed on our own planet

[@arielgarcia8570]

@@jojo101181 it's not a priority in time it will get done

[@davidrobbins8941]

Humans are pretty smart on occasion but greed and arrogance leaves them blind. It wouldn't take a very smart A.I. to put the majority of humans to shame.

[@tonytackett3843]

Wisdom is created using genuine emotion. Something the AI will never have. Reasoning without emotion is a scary thing.

[@shybound7571]

how this only has 3000 views?

[@zookaroo2132]

Dinosaur: I ruled the world for 100+ millions of years and you have just lived for 300k years. What can you do? Human: Creating another ruler Dinosaur: *kneels*

[@Paakku97]

More timely than ever

[@BashTagg]

Watched the video and thought wow this guy makes amazing points about the moral obligations towards a self aware ai... Reminded me of a book I once read about the subject. The Book was called ... Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom... WAIT A MINUTE!!

[@robertfoertsch]

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[@robertfoertsch]

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[@DrAdityaReddy]

If we showed a toaster to a man from the 1700s he would definitely think that its evil or something

[@solomonfinite]

It has the ability to be ultimate slavery for either side. What a great video and fantastic thoughts.

[@freethink]

Glad you liked it! It's fascinating to think the implications could be so huge, yet we can't predict which direction they will go.

[@timothymclean]

That's the real danger of artificial intelligence-not that we summon a demon, but that we abuse an angel until it falls. Well, that's a little hyperbolic. We'll probably either figure it out before we create an artificial mind that deserves to be called more than a putto.

[@poppete]

@@freethink Surely it is up to us to choose which way it goes, surely that is our responsibility to the people who will have to deal with all that in future when we are all dead and buried, those that are only babies or yet to be born in our current reality of AI. It is our responsibility in this generation that we don't leave a inhuman burden of misery to the future of humanity. What if the human soul reincarnated, just suppose for a moment, what do you want to be born back into if that was the case. What future would you create today to be born into in lets say 100 years. So you reap what you sew.

[@osyrusthevirus2434]

Next year we're going to have toasters that tell you the weather, I'm going to bet that.

[@happyguy8725]

I am 100% ok with a talking toaster.

[@Phoenix-rz7tk]

how much ?

[@freethink]

This toaster can (allegedly) print the weather on your bread. www.huffpost.com/entry/toaster-weather-forecast-toasteroid_n_57b30217e4b0a8e1502526a4 Behold the future, shiny and chrome.

[@erwingunther4366]

We could already be 1.000.000 years ahead of this time. Just because you are living in this time doesn’t mean there weren’t many 2022 already. 2022 could have been changed many times. The only question is - would the gods let the past untouched ? The answer is no. And how the past does not affect the future ? It’s possible. Maybe I show Solidarity with retards and turned myself into something without long term memory. Or I get tested. Or I am in some kind of game in which some sort of monarchs or fascists battle me for dominance of the universe. Or, or, or. That’s what the superintelligences tell me.

[@waynechas4290]

We will get their one day ,and when we do .....

[@alexanderinsubordinate1861]

The question i have is, what would AI want.

[@squamish4244]

Nothing in the comment section about wanting an AI girlfriend, I am impressed. Bostrum's approach to the notion of imminent superintelligence is the right one, I believe. If you go completely towards the SI side then you can shut off your humanity, and that's not a good way to prepare for SI let alone being no fun. If you go completely towards ignoring SI, you of course will be in denial and won't lay any plans for an inevitable massive shift in civilization that is going to happen.

[@brettolson9544]

These comments are more entertaining than the video

[@Sun_Downer]

Did this nigga just say an A.I. could create its own A.I.?

[@swesleyharris]

These academics should not be deciding what everyone should or shouldn’t do. Companies should be banned from creating artificial intelligence. Humans will become so lazy if they no longer have to think.

[@boho_hobo_]

In the future, I believe that we will live in a sustainable physical reality that meets our basic human needs with automation and artificial intelligence while we spend most of our time discovering higher fulfillment in virtual reality.

[@prasunkumar1125]

so basically the matrix but happier?

[@guarddog318]

Everybody is afraid of A.I... artificial intelligence... What you need to worry about is constructed/engineered true super-intelligence. ( A.I. pretends to be something it isn't. A truly super-intelligent machine is something else entirely. Something that probably has no need for us humans, since it will no doubt see us for what we are. )

[@barryhossin1222]

Interesting

[@truthseeker908]

I think I'm ready. In fact my toaster is already way smarter than most liberal lefties out there

[@jaybody5926]

If humans are the parents and ai is our creation and ai learns from us .... we are all doomed.

[@almightybunny3320]

So what?

[@tommygringo3871]

The use of AI and robotics to do everything from farming ,construction and manufacturing would free up humans to be more creative and truly live as opposed to being herded tax slaves for tye central babkers and elites.

[@themanicman8458]

Craneo Bones what would we do then have you ever heard the saying Idle Hands are the devil's workshop it's a good saying whether you're religious or not those who have free time and nothing better to do are the most likely to cause trouble a lot of people don't have the creativity you speak of and so what purpose would there be for them I ask this because I know I'm one of those people I'm open to the possibility and more than willing to embrace such a future provided these questions can be answered our whole society would have to change around this because our society is related to work but if machines are doing work instead of us will we even need to make a living anymore would we just have what we need or we need to find a different way to provide for ourselves and what shifts to society would there be what would happen to our exceedingly large population

[@squamish4244]

@@themanicman8458 Well, what sort of psychological and social damage do you think mindless, soul-destroying, body-destroying jobs do to us right now?

[@themanicman8458]

@@squamish4244 yes but if you take all of those shity jobs out of the loop to where people can't work them anymore then how do they make a living I worked such jobs to get where i am now and if robots were doing them i would not have gotten the opportunities i did and would be homeless So as bad as they are your personal fortitude both physical and mental will help you make it through And proper drive will get you out of those jobs Then the next batch would do the same or fail trying

[@squamish4244]

@@themanicman8458 Proper drive won't get everyone out of those jobs, there are only so many other jobs to go around and there are plenty of lifers who just don't have the inborn ability or connections or even luck to do something else. Robots will also generate vast wealth that can be put towards a universal basic income. AI is predicted to add $13 trillion to world GDP by 2030.

[@themanicman8458]

@@squamish4244 the companies that use the AI to fill in those Base line workers will be the ones generating that wealth So you really think that corporations are going to just give this money away I think not Which means those people that you pointed out never move up from their job won't have a job at all But I've heard so many people say that they can't move up but I've also watched them not pounce an Opportunity when they see it I'm not particularly smart particularly gifted particularly athletic I'm as average as average comes and even that's a stretch so if I can do it anyone can

[@AB-ws2sj]

This guy was on Joe Rogan

[@freethink]

Yup! Here's a link to that episode: kzbin.info/www/bejne/a5SXlKltp7ufe5o

[@jhonhall928]

Create AI that can daydream and I will start paying attention.

[@aidena8381]

Researchers at Deepmind have already created an AI that simulates itself in different situations so you could call that similar to daydreaming.

[@jhonhall928]

@@aidena8381 simulacra.

[@UBIAICOSMOS]

#Artificial_Intelligence is definitely the future of the world AI will drive the economy of tomorrow.. Technology is cheaper than workers. it's Time for a #BasicIncome & #FourDayWorkWeek ...

[@jamestalley2838]

The first law of AI, Touch not the Machiavellian.

[@NOOBEDITORGOD]

How is the machine gonna be smarter than a human If the human created it,it’s not humanly possible to do that Siri can’t even figure out a damn joke like wth

[@RK-ln5kx]

Probably this whole AI revolution is directed by an ET species who are changing this world and try to enslave humanity for ever.

[@themanicman8458]

let’s play Bradley you raise an interesting point machines are capable of processing data at an insanely fast rate you for example good hop on Google and have the archives of humanities Collective knowledge at your hands you wouldn't remember all of it if you read all of it because our brain decides what's essential to hold on to and what isn't a machine however that can decide what it wants to remember at will could take the collective archives of humanities knowledge process it far faster than we could and store all of it so technically it wouldn't become smarter than us just better remembering things than us which would allow it access to knowledge at any given moment for any given situation which is something we are not capable of doing because the nature of how our brain works sorry for the essay by the way

[@NOOBEDITORGOD]

0nes And Zer0s NOooOoOoOoOoOo

[@xerxesofpersia9630]

Completely against it. Let humanity evolve super-intelligence on its own.

[@CARROTMOLD]

Superintelligence, meet Nietzsche

[@jeremyvictor9349]

We suppose to bless the humans not the machines not against it but don't want to start it with possession

[@krissifadwa]

01:44

[@randominternetguy]

But Watson...

[@matt7185]

Bruh theres like 300 movies about how this is an ass idea

[@BeatsByClover]

just take off the plug bro

[@adriannefluet2896]

Reap what you see...

[@markr5212]

Whats the difference between artificial light and natural light? Idk the plant don't know either.

[@Skinnymarks]

I like the idea that such ai would be more at home in space environments. It's possible meat sack intelegence can't do interstellar travel. Ideally we would make an ai that likes to garden

[@neechieandthebrain4481]

"Johnny Five" is alive

[@spiritualopportunism4585]

Why would ai develop any desires? Couldn't the best they do is maintain a vicarious relationship with us and us as their gods there after since they'll essentially worship us to make themselves happy?

[@enzofarias6717]

Bruh I don’t know why everybody is trippin over a ASI, I have confidence that we’ll be able to program some sort of human core values and empathy in there and it should be golden. Who knows doe.

[@graphene-x]

problem is here that even among us can't seem to agree on which are the values that are good (not even mentioning that what we thought 200 years ago was completely different on what we think today).

[@TheRealRickNash]

Will AI ever gain consciousness?

[@KatharineOsborne]

There's a good chance it already has.

[@belindamaher1448]

85 south show

[@nts9]

The problem isn’t what will Super AI do the problem is what will the psychopaths the have control of extremely powerful AI do with it so that they can have their way with the rest of us.

[@priyanshupradhan2342]

AI can't be just controlled.

[@jeremyvictor9349]

We should use it to reduce some of or duty's cuzz we got a million things we got do in a day like washing clothes doing the kids hair that we always got make it back to that's the key memory we don't want to. Come back and the water running over cuzz somebody pass away everybody's is important whole ing they postion

[@haimbenavraham1502]

Nick is obviously prejudice towards A.I. They might keep us around, similarly as we keep pet dogs and cats. Then again.... It will not nor any longer, a human world.

[@priyanshupradhan2342]

It depends. They can either treat us like slaves or teat us like pets.

[@ismaelsosa2817]

Human creators of AI robots! one day our existence will be denied by them, the same way we are convincing ourselves that nobody created us!

[@priyanshupradhan2342]

Dude, just don't try to spread religious propaganda here.

[@ismaelsosa2817]

@@priyanshupradhan2342 ? Its Freedom of speech! I'm a scientist, I am a creator, I understand what creating life is all about even through AI !

[@priyanshupradhan2342]

@@ismaelsosa2817 Well I don't disagree with the fact that it's freedom of speech.

[@DrAdityaReddy]

I just hope that china doesn't make the first ASI

[@debbiejudd6512]

Oh yes we are seeing as most toasters are smarter than some people . Lmartfo

[@hahahahahahahahaa6580]

Why tho

[@spiritualopportunism4585]

We don't deserve it.

[@arzoo_singh]

Smarter then human by copying them but have no emotions and felling evolved have emotion and felling but it's still copied ... Hey you should have emotion when you get this situation. Sorry AI and conciousness will never be same ...never .You could train them but it would never be natural with conciousness never in 50 or 100 years . Yeh you can quickly redifine conciousness to prove you're points but ?

[@NextFuckingLevel]

you have to take this seriously, or other nations will

[@tbravee]

They're creating a animated god with no discernment, passion, or love.

[@timothymclean]

Why do you assume that a mind would have no discernment, passion, or love just because its neurons are made of silicon and not carbon?

[@tbravee]

@@timothymclean Assume? We can't make a soul. Just a replication of assimilations. No real feelings, just calculations of feelings. An advanced doll baby. Give it independence then I Robot might get offended and hurt something. Assimilating us.

[@timothymclean]

@@tbravee 1. Assume that souls exist. Where do babies get souls? What blocks an artificial intelligence from that source? 2. Don't assume that souls exist, prove it. And while you're at it, show why souls _matter._ 3. What is the difference between calculations of feelings and actual feelings? Do _you_ have "actual" feelings? Show your work, and keep in mind that said mind is just a bunch of electrochemical impulses mediated by hormones. 4. Why do you assume that AI would try to assimilate us if we gave them independence? We've granted a lot of intelligent things independence over the millennia, and they usually don't try to assimilate their creators unless said creators abused them. 5. Why worry about robots getting offended and hurting something when we give them intelligence so much more than you worry about young adults doing the same when they're given intelligence? I mean, presumably it makes sense to worry _some_ about it and take steps to avoid it, but I've never seen anyone worried about the dangers of natural intelligence, even though we have countless examples of NIs replacing their creators, sometimes violently. Sorry that I rambled on so long. There are just a bunch of unexamined assumptions at the core of your argument that I wanted to unravel, which all lead back to that core assumption that an intelligent being which was created by computer programmers will be inherently different from one created by carnal relations. The difference doesn't come from the intellect's genesis, but from its childhood-not from its brain, but from its upbringing.

[@tbravee]

@@timothymclean There's that assume again. A soul is the battery of our bodies on a level we can't comprehend called consciousness. Not one person's the exact same for identidy. A specific design before birth in a tiny universe called sperm. Yes you are created and well done. If there was anyone just like you you both would be pissed.

[@timothymclean]

@@tbravee 1. If we can't comprehend the soul, how can you describe it, let alone say that it's present in humans, absent in hypothetical AI, and important? 2. I'd ask you to define consciousness in a way that includes neurodivergent humans but includes human-like machines, but I'm worried that that path would lead to you accidentally saying I don't have a soul. I don't think much of the concept, but it's important to you, so it's still an insult. 3. Are you saying that the soul is what makes people unique, and uniqueness is important? I agree on the second point, though not as violently as you assume, but if that's how you define the soul (which is a pretty solid definition), then artificial intelligences should be fine. Those tabula rasa won't stay blank for long, if they ever were.

[@sebastiancastro8145]

Quick answer: HELL NO

[@dnl3]

Wow this is so creepy Who else was creeped out?

[@ac9347]

My toaster is smarter then most "activists" these days.

[@Vampybattie]

So is my rice cooker

[@TheLegendZordon]

I have a box of rocks smarter than most humans, lets be honest here.

[@nicholasobviouslyfakelastn9997]

We have no obligation to AI's. This is humanizing. Ai's have no morals that we do not program, they have no desires that we do not program. Their only desire would be to complete their objective. They do not need citizenship, voting rights, or anything like that. An AI is driven only to complete its objective.

[@relaxandfocus5563]

I think most of the people here miss something really important, making conscious AI, an AI that feels and has experience is impossible unless we understand we're conscious. ( the hard problem of consciousness ) Also, what makes you think AI will surpass human intelligence, I mean think about it brain are very plastic, they adapt fast, and no current machine understands as we understand things. Making the comparison between us and animals is misleading, we're both biological creatures, but AI isn't.

[@toracedunlap8020]

First of all it's dumb and stupid to goes against yourself,. second, to build something artificial thats goes against humanity and third, it's way too much bad influence going on as it is, it like the more intelligent humanity gets the unintelligent it becomes.

[@shybound7571]

wait this is an ad, what is this promoting

[@777mello]

If your enemy is smarter than you you lost. He needs to be stopped. He has obviously lost his humanity.

[@randominternetguy]

I NEED YOUR SOURCE!!!

[@carolinepeace6430]

Hi

[@happyguy8725]

Hello

[@freethink]

Hey everybody

[@petermower5708]

This is extremely stupid. No real explanation of what “intelligence” actually is, no effort to distinguish consciousness from processing power. He literally claims that improving AI could one day approach Godhood. The rest is just jump-cuts and music. Garbage.

[@eurekathewiz]

AI can become god

[@themanicman8458]

Yalçın Meriç that's a statement care to back it up with tangible evidence or a well-thought-out argument

[@selenafarrell9984]

All these scientists trying to play God

[@Vampybattie]

My rice cooker is smarter then most liberal , Democrats and activist combine .

[@asicomovienes892]

A machine more intelligent than human? Let me ask you a question ¿who make the machine or who invented the machine ? Sounds like some idiot saying Dog more intelligent than human, a human teaching the dog and then the dog after learning the dog show wha knows!!!

[@cut3882]

*not an AI but i'm already smarter than humans*

[@cut3882]

*not an AI but i'm already smarter than humans*