Stephen Fry on How to use AI as a force for good | CogX Festival 2023

Stephen Fry spoke at CogX Festival 2023 in London on Thursday, September 14th and revealed how an AI used his Harry Potter audio books to create a narration without his knowledge, or permission.
Featuring:
Stephen Fry - Actor, Writer, Presenter, Comedian
#harrypotter #ai
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[@trevorndhlovu3381]

"Technology is not a noun, it is a verb. It's always moving." Stephen Fry

[@Pokjhbvcf]

Just seen that thanks mate

[@caroledrury1411]

Sadly, it is actually a noun but let’s hope, as nouns do, it move on

[@forbeginnersandbeyond6089]

I can listen to Stephen Fry talk for hours without getting bored.

[@lostinc6791]

"Let's invent a thing inventor inventor" said the thing inventor after being invented. - Bill Wurtz

[@MangoCake-wm2tk]

2:01 A guy called AL might become sentient 😂

[@tonysuffolk]

What an amazing public speaker. 30 minutes of word perfect prose. Few have this skill.

[@Gribbo9999]

David Attenborough *and* Stephen Fry.

[@phamhongchuyen7606]

Wow what a speaker. I learned more from this than i did in the last decade😂

[@shannondelima3028]

He is a great speaker. But you gotta be reading a little bit more my friend.

[@phamhongchuyen7606]

Hehe true... but this is still one of the best speeches about Ai I've ever heard. Any suggestions to read that will blow my mind?@@shannondelima3028

[@ianmurphy9955]

I believe after this address Stephen exited stage right and hadn't realised there was a 6ft drop, breaking a leg in two places, his pelvis and 2 ribs

[@Digital111]

I don't know why but I though you were trolling. That's horrible, I hope he's fully recovered!

[@ianmurphy9955]

@@Digital111 I heard him talk about it on a radio interview he did, whilst recovering.

[@Sheema777]

Thank YOU for such an eloquent and to the point talk!!

[@rooneyjohn]

It is kinda funny that in this speech Stephen Fry asks very simply to please use a BIG A, and a small i when refering to Ai. Yet, the title of this video uses AI instead of Ai. I'm all for Ai, I think visually it's way more interesting...... now my brain is spinning, think about the marketing for the new AiPhone.

[@KathrynRose-schultz-qs6qw]

Bet Steven did not creat the video just the speaker who was videoed.

[@stuckkk]

I don't think he was being serious 😁

[@_stanlymathai]

I have slight preference towards 'ai', how about you guyz?

[@paddykriton3475]

We could just use a serif font

[@stuart6478]

It's funny because ai has zero iq

[@justwest]

profound and brilliant

[@MantisEnergy]

This is a new definition of The Singularity to me. To my mind it wasn't just an Ai that was as independent as a human consciousness, but more the unification of human consciousness with an Ai that could improve itself. That's still in the realm of science fiction, but was a much grander idea for that term.

[@CloudhoundCoUk]

Brilliant as always Stephen.

[@lytylawou]

Between all the thinkers today, he sees and answers all the questions on the most humanist and understandable wise way. He suppose to lead the future of our planet.

[@fraumahler5934]

We need his oversight.

[@nancythomas-wardm.b.a2993]

We, use here should listen again maybe again...take note of every sentence and see if we can add our own thought...can we?? Thank you Mr fry...thinking

[@taisinclair9033]

Who is in this audience and why arent they laughing?

[@welcomewonder1604]

My thoughts exactly. But I think it’s a case of how he’s mic’d up. I think he’s using the mic that’s on his body, and it’s only designed to pick up sound in really close proximity, so the audience audio doesn’t get pulled in. Definitely a strange thing to leave out during editing though, considering that room must have one or two mics to pick up the audience’s reactions.

[@neilstenton9079]

I was there - it was way too big a venue for the size of the audience. There were at best a few hundred and they were quite spread out.

[@sundayoliver3147]

You didn't bother to read the description under the video? Maybe I should be the one laughing at someone who can't find basic information. But that would be mean-spirited.

[@taisinclair9033]

Huh ​@@sundayoliver3147

[@KIBICKE94]

​@@sundayoliver3147 Yet you manage to be mean. Kudos

[@tommy3141]

cant wait for Ai to be fed road maps of cities to sort out the travel chaios.

[@GemBMs]

I just don’t see the upsides of A.I. being comparable to the downsides. What this is going to do to our ability to determine what is real or fake is going to be so destructive. Unless you interact with a someone in person you won’t have a clue if they actually said or did something.

[@StillAliveAndKicking_]

That’s the problem we have to solve.

[@Hoganply]

Maybe this'll make some of us better at recognising humanity.

[@stuart6478]

Pay more to pay others less

[@johno3672]

I'm glad he pulled up ChatGPT not being Ai, we can't actually know at this stage what Ai should be. But for now it's just a very advanced form of automation. The question is whether our notion of 'intelligence' exists in 'nature'. But beyond this there are certainly matters of the mental supernatural which don't seem to be explainable by any mathematical mechanism.

[@rae0521]

Fascinating. Thank you Mr. Fry. It's a lot of work to pull all that together and present it. Did you use Ai to help?

[@misssummersalt]

You're asking a scholar who has done this his whole life? If you honestly think that he would, well, I am truly sorry for your minders.

[@MikStorer]

Within western philosophy and study of the environment it is clear that birds, plants, animals and insects are of equal importance to humans. We are interlinked. The predominant human bias even in the West is that this doesn't matter so much. But an AI will see it in very blunt terms. So if a "Western" AI considers men and women equal ... people of colour equal, different sexualities equal ... and children to be specially protected - and plants and animals, the ecosystem generally as equally important as humans ... ... maybe the AI will come to a more rational conclusion than most people can manage. That to protect humans the environment must be protected in the first place.

[@tonysuffolk]

No audience? If there was, they were very quiet!

[@danremenyi1179]

Stephen, Thank you. This needs to be view by a billion people.

[@homergee3381]

Money=Rights, this is what Ai will learn from us, we have one chance to teach it that nobody can have more than $X amount to spend per year, (great projects need great cooperation,) or it will take all our rights and enslave us like we do to each other now.

[@contemplating1015]

Decentralisation kids

[@abigailwilliams6782]

He fell off this exact stage, giving that speech of the cogx festival 😡

[@Tomurow]

Only human...😉

[@DeadlyApples666]

They said break a leg to him before going on stage. He aims to please. 😂 I love Stephen fry. I'd love to meet him.

[@johno3672]

how can AI drive a car and apply a primary directive to preserve human life? It can't. It can only do it by placing a price on human life and trying to make a 'best case' decision. Extrapolate that.

[@athanatic]

I hear him speak like dactylic hexameter, I know when to chime in. OK, Steve, Vernor Vinge's "Singularity" concept was a authorly dodge for writing around tech smarter than us. That was really it. It was never meant to be a real thing or time, but it is now a metaphor.

[@moonbeamchaos]

Kindly summon up the respect to either address him as Mr Fry or STEPHEN. Nobody ever calls him “Steve.”

[@johnhewitt8784]

You have provided Trump with an out - 'It wasn''t me, it was Ai!'

[@stuart6478]

Trump, the greatest president of all time I think... by now. Because of you so listening to him, you'll see everything he's actually done. Namely, the only president who didn't start a war. You're welcome.

[@greendeane1]

AI doesn't bother me but AS, artificial stupidity does.

[@langueseklore]

Ai = As if...

[@alanhamilton9633]

I canny listen to your spiel any longer, although I agree with most of of it. Mores law is no longer valid and quantum issues affect the density of transistors on a chip. That’s something we’ve got to get our heads around, .

[@moontoadz]

war is not the answer!!!!!!!!!! pray for world peace 🕊🕊🌎🌎☮☮✌✌🤡🤡

[@caroledrury1411]

I love Stephen Fry and have always vowed that no matter what the topic, I would always listen to Stephen. This is the first time that a topic has made Stephen Fry morbidly boring. I shall have to pass on this one. Please Stephen go back to your wonderful, gracious self.

[@KIBICKE94]

I think it's mainly because of the total lack of interaction from the public. Maybe he is not as funny as he usually is, but it is far from boring, to me at least.

[@cphcph12]

25:30 one question on this: does it matter that China uses a dictator Ai for other countries? That will only have influence when there is a way to influence/force the people thinking differently. That means ultimately power over humans. Doesn't that mean it's a difference in degrees? The use of force is as old as human civilization.

[@Gribbo9999]

The video about the Dutch during the war was totally convincing. Did Stephen need copywrite and intellectual property permissions to use this in this lecture? Just because an Ai voice sounds convincingly like you it doesn't mean you own it. If the initial voice samples were legally obtained and publically available in what sense would the generated voice be the property of the original voice's owner? If I play a grand piano does the piano manufacturer have intellectual property rights to the music played on it? Maybe it is the style of your voice that you own? After all I am sure without any prompting many, maybe most, British people would know it was "Stephen Fry" even though it wasn't, just by the tone and style. So many grey areas here. Thank you Stephen for seeding some interesting ideas.

[@saiello2061]

I like Stephen Fry. Unfortunately, like many intellectuals who deem to speak outside of their fields of expertise, they can get things rather wrong.

[@barryslorridgemusic]

Stephen Fry... didn't he marry a child?

[@Digital111]

No, a 28 year old, they are still together and his husband turns 39 this year.. You wouldn't be writing this nasty comment if he had married a woman..

[@davidblack2970]

The short-term effect of Ai is to replace jobs that people are now being paid a salary to do. Even now it is being used to evaluate and reject health insurance claims and give the companies a wall to hide behind. 'Oh, WE didn't reject your claim, Ai did... '