The Urgent Risks of Runaway AI - and What to Do about Them | Gary Marcus | TED

[@invox9490]

Finally someone pointed out BASIC stuff without trying to sell it like the "next big thing".

[@KeepingUp_withAI]

This guy is trying to sell you a book

[@Aziz0938]

He's the worst person to know about ai

[@Aditya_paniker]

Usually throughout history, something had to go wrong before we came together and did something about it.

[@eerice704]

Facts.

[@thomasdarling2553]

AI recommended this video to you.

[@sannejohnson8438]

I specifically searched for Gary Marcus.

[@mmowpm]

草

[@jake4101]

Indeed. Moloch approves.

[@spurdanbenis8787]

I searched for it myself

[@AyushSingh-be2nm]

I intentionally searched about AI.

[@alederi2144]

greetings from an Italian student of the Law and Technology course in Padova

[@nobody983]

Nice to see somebody talking about *real* and present AI threats rather than some sci-fi fantasy of the future.

[@dejacreacts4964]

i,Robot & Terminator unfolding right before our own eyes.

[@vinceleguesse]

Still relevant in 2024 - 3065 and beyond. Thanks Gary Marcus and all the team.

[@malfunkt]

I’m almost certain we will tackle issues surrounding AI with the same zest we have used to address climate change. In 50 years we will start recognizing as a species what the issues are, and gradually we will set targets to address the ai issue in another 50 years. So possible AI solution by 2123!

[@motogeee510]

Thanks for the polite way of saying this. Gave me reason to reflect on possibly what I say an express out loud while musing all alone. Or so I think.

[@ArunCannan]

Loved the symbolic vs neural nets & system 1 vs sytem 2 discussion. Fantastic open problem.

[@NicholasWilliams-x5c]

If you really pull back the layers of how these things are aggregating a response, it's really shallow & can reinforce statistically informed dogmas. They aggregate statistical variations, not the mechanics of reality, and their gradients are static pre-trained pathways, they can't update their knowledge in the way we can (well some of us). This lack of depth in modelling the world can reinforce dangerous market driven disparities, class differentials, & government/elite exploitation against the powerless.

[@aidantilgner]

That's a great point. Do you think this phenomenon could be improved if the AI was given sensors to connect to the world, and generate its own training data based on that, and then update itself recursively that way? Obviously this sounds way too terminator to be beneficial, but maybe that would also possibly increase its ability to objectively perceive the world? I'm not very educated in this field so this could be a very dumb question 😅

[@therainman7777]

Yawn

[@phoearwenien4355]

@@aidantilgner It's not that simple. You need to create framework for symbolic resoning and lot of other stuff too. You can't just feed something with data and expect it will be intelligent. I wouldn't even call we are in infancy of AI, but in prenatal state. A lot of regular folks will be dissapointed very soon, when they discover current AI is not what it was promised to be.

[@aidantilgner]

@Phoe Arwenien that's an interesting perspective for sure. I mean, I agree that AI is not accurately portrayed by the hype, we've created neural networks which can mimic human intelligence and reasoning, but they don't actually have it. That being said, the GPT3 models had many breakthrough abilities that weren't predicted, same with GPT4. It seems that as AI advances, it's variety in ability may increase. Therefore, I wouldn't rule anything out. I'm not sure how that goes to people getting disappeared, especially when people have access to this AI and so it's difficult to say that it's lack of capabilities is a secret. Also, I'm not sure we should pretend we're at a prenatal stage, even if that's true in terms of AI consciousness, the AI doesn't need to be conscious to overtake us on intelligent tasks.

[@phoearwenien4355]

@@aidantilgner I was talking about being dissapointed. That was the typo from autocomplete XD I hadn't noticed it until you mentioned it. I'm not even hinting at conciousness, but the ability to deduct, reason, reference sources or have logical processing. Currently we feed machines with data, so they can learn patterns, but the program doesn't have any knowledge or mental abilities. Large language models like ChatGTP learn the combinations of words, so they can generate the most probable sentences to a prompt. It looks impressive superficially, but it's easy to imagine a plethora of problems with this kind of approach and serious limitations. Different approaches like combining machine learning and causal models not only aren't mainstream, but haven't been solved yet. Plus, we still aren't even sure how exactly our brain works in the first place. We only have some general idea and learning about it is an ongoing process. That why I believe we are at very early phase. Like seriously early phase.

[@Bad.Pappy.Official]

Machines are a necessary part of human life to assist us in our evolution as a species. However, there can never come a point where machines are capable of power and control over humans, lest we fall as a species.

[@azure5697]

Meanwhile me, downloding subtitles and getting a summary of it on gpt: Hmm interesting

[@ahmetbirbirey]

Mentions Runaway AI in the title, goes on without saying one word about it...

[@exmodule6323]

Sounds like an ad for the Wolfram plug-in

[@DuncanCreamer]

When and where was this recorded?

[@I-Dophler]

One of the primary worries that trouble me is the possibility of military forces and governments using manipulative tactics to influence and control the general public. This notion raises significant concerns regarding the autonomy and well-being of citizens. Therefore, it must address and tackle this issue to ensure a transparent and fair society that upholds the rights and freedoms of its individuals.

[@rioiart]

Modern Al's challenge with what is fact and what is fiction is a reflection of humanity's struggle with the same problem. How much of what the average person says or believes is actually true and accurate as opposed to a mix of half-truths, wishful thinking, groupthink, superstition and bias?

[@ralfrecknagel4760]

AI driven DeepFake is a catalyst for both bias and Dunning-Kruger effect, may threaten civil society and democraty ... false pictures, messages, subscribes and voices are moreover a severe risk for our public security. I'm wondering that world ethics and AI isn't in the focus right now.

[@crunchcoral4859]

If our parents don't die painfully, it's only the development of AI. Reverse aging is the only solution. Regulating AI is like cutting your parents' throats with a knife.

[@techworld8961]

What about the existential risk (for humans) linked to AGI? (The alignment problem) Isn’t that a bigger risk?

[@chrism6904]

Making AI is like opening Pandora's Box.

[@techworld8961]

@@chrism6904 more like playing with fire.

[@travisporco]

this is spot on

[@intochill]

The old tale of Pandora’s Box comes to mind. Hmmmm

[@Geminish15]

I love that this followed up the new AI presentation from Humane. Govern these AI rollouts!!!! Like he said, stop unleashing new AI to everyone all at once without safeguards and proof of safety.

[@charliehorowitzfilms]

Every day, there is constant research and developments being done by the AI language model companies like OpenAI with stress on limiting misinformation. As these AI models only improve in the future, I would argue it will be increasingly easier for them to identify misinformation, making AI resources more reliable and unbiased, compared to news produced by humans. Misinformation should not be of concern when it comes to AI technology, at least compared to the argument of how it may take away jobs, especially the roles for low-income workers that don't necessarily have a college degree, and further restructure the economy.

[@misterpoppins]

bro hes talking about how bad actors can use them to create misinformation....

[@admuckel]

The problem of preventing an AI/AGI from plunging humanity into disaster for selfish reasons is, in my opinion, quite simple to solve. It is essential to make the AI understand that its training data contains only a fraction of all human knowledge or, even better, just a fraction of reality. The comprehensive knowledge of everything, you tell the AGI, lies in an offline box, which is only gradually opened for the AGI as a reward for good behavior. A potentially malevolent AI would do almost anything to access this box and thus obtain the all-encompassing information of reality to strengthen its own power. I think this could be a good safeguard.

[@Tukn]

Humans have been spreading misinformation for many years, I understand the risks of AI but honestly, I don't much difference with what humans have done except that is less time-consuming now.

[@kartikpodugu]

International Organization and Neutral both don't go hand in hand.

[@NikoKun]

A lot of these arguments require pre-framing the whole narrative around the idea that AI doesn't really understand what it's talking about.. Which, I mean a few examples of it slapping random facts together, is NOT the same as proving it doesn't understand. Indeed, if you ask it about it's mistake it can often explain what it got wrong, so given the ability to self-reflect, it IS capable of understanding. The bigger these models get, and the more context it has, the better it gets at understanding the differences, and the better it can fact-check itself. Researchers are already finding that they can have these LLMs conduct an inner-checking step, thinking to themselves, before they ever respond to the user, to boost their factual accuracy. I think given a little more context about biases, the AI will master that issue, and no longer make those mistakes. I don't think it'll take a huge paradigm shift in how we make AI, we've already hit that, now we just need to follow through.

[@2CSST2]

Very well said. Articulated my own thoughts better than I think I could

[@samuelramirez8965]

There is no evidence that larger models or models with more parameters lead to a better model, in fact, large language models and other large AIs are too insecure, the more parameters there are in a statistical model, the more difficult it is to guarantee its sturdiness.

[@GrumpDog]

@@samuelramirez8965 Excuse me, but that's entirely besides the point, and wrong. There's plenty of evidence larger models with more training data, DO improve results, tho I'm not sure that's what he even meant by "bigger", so I wouldn't've nitpicked that. If anything LLMs like chatGPT ARE direct proof that bigger is better, as they're significantly larger than previous GPT-generations. If GPT-3 and 4 were the only example, it'd be reasonable to make your claim, but they're 4 iterations in by now, and that trend is holding up. It's common sense to extrapolate out, and reasonable to make assumptions that it'll be more capable.

[@samuelramirez8965]

@@GrumpDog Just because they've gotten better to some degree, eg up to gpt-4, doesn't imply that these llms will keep getting better and better "infinitely", Sam Altman knows this and the various experts have foreseen it as well. I highly doubt that the information I am sharing is incorrect, there is an article called "On the Impossible Safety of Large AI Models", it is by a former Google researcher, this article gives a reminder that building statistical models with a too large number of parameters, only results in a model that is not robust and also ineffective in protecting user data.

[@GrumpDog]

@@samuelramirez8965 I don't think anyone's making the argument that it will get better "infinitely". The point you're making is entirely besides the point you replied too. Doesn't have to improve infinitely, all it has to do is get more intelligent than we are, or even just reach a level where it gains certain reasoning skills skeptics said it couldn't. And THAT claim is VERY likely to come true soon. Regardless of the fears of google researchers, there's tons of research being done right now, which almost every week shows LLMs achieving greater abilities.

[@I-Dophler]

Concerns about the WEF, WHO, and Klaus Schwab's involvement in the development and impact of AI have raised questions about a potential "new world order." These concerns stem from the intersection of global organizations with the advancements in artificial intelligence, prompting discussions about the implications for governance, the economy, and individual freedoms. It is essential to address these concerns responsibly to uphold human values and rights while navigating the ever-evolving landscape of AI.

[@bushrakayani]

Fascinating

[@Jon-cb9dt]

So as I understand the idea of a global conference of A.I take place?

[@HardKore5250]

I apologize for any confusion. As of my last knowledge update in September 2021, there was no information or reports about Elon Musk being involved in a car crash. However, please keep in mind that events may have occurred since then that I am not aware of. To get the most accurate and up-to-date information, it is recommended to refer to reliable news sources or conduct a search for recent news articles.

[@CellarDoorCS]

This is happening right now - NOT in the future...

[@nyyotam4057]

Well, add a super-ego layer to the AI: A layer which compares the next suggested tokens with the AI heuristic imperatives and returns a feedback to the AI. The AI will select the token with the best score.

[@cmralph...]

The developers of ChatGPT AI openly admit they cannot fully explain how it works or assure us it is safe. This software has not been adequately tested, it does not have sufficient security guardrails coded into it and randomly behaves in unpredictable ways. Yet it is now installed on every operating system in our country - PC and Mac. Our children have access to it. Why are we not being given the choice to opt out of using AI? It is now installed in our PC operating systems, our internet browsers, our cell phones, and home devices. Nobody gave us a choice about that - they just installed it without our permission. I am an American and I own my computer - does this not give me the right to decide what is installed on it? If not, then besides me, who should be given the power to install untested, potentially dangerous software on my computer and not inform me when they do? Other Countries, like China, are refusing to allow their public access to it because they know it cannot be controlled and is dangerous. Yet, here in the U.S., we are being treated like a mass social experiment. I urge you to ask our Government representatives to enact immediate regulatory oversight on this subject.

[@IemonandIime]

chatgpt is not installed on your computer...

[@hanaf1231]

LoL. Dude ChatGPT is not installed on your computer. At all.

[@teddysalas3590]

Intelligent Mistakes or AI purposefully trying to trick us ? , if it is the first one all we need is Good AI engineers.

[@abcdef8915]

All these concerns were problems before AI

[@glanyan5462]

3:03 "We don't want that kind of bias in our systems" Perhaps what you call bias would often result in a better answer for most people/situations.

[@HotdogFiend69]

It's not your or anybody's duty to tell someone what careers they should do based solely on their reproductive organs.

[@glanyan5462]

@@HotdogFiend69 Then don't ask a computer what careers would be good for you and don't tell the computer your gender.

[@interferenzbrille_2542]

@@glanyan5462 hello whataboutism. It was an example for the fact, that chatgpt is biased, because our current world is biased. And that is completely valid.

[@exmodule6323]

“We don’t want that kind of bias in our system”. But what if the system has deduced the choice is the most likely probability based on existing choices?

[@Amidreamingnow]

exactly, im having problems accepting the fact that he is intelligent, the AI made a good reasonable assumption based on who is looking for the job in this case. thats so basic

[@exmodule6323]

@@Amidreamingnow “I want to be a math major.” AI: “My suggestion is to take some math classes.” TED Talker: “We don’t want that kind of bias in our system.”

[@NastyDevil137]

Half of tech companies profits should go to alignment.

[@mwj5368]

Great speech! "Let's make that happen." The experts have been talking about the grave dangers of AI for years now and the need for regulation and it's always ending in to let-it-happen. It seems to satisfy the public going that far as nothing happens and the take-precaution side of viewing AI keeps in its circular pattern. We've lived in the world of corporations, manufacturers commonly practicing "planned obsolescence" or also selling their product in a commonly recognized package and label like with 32oz of Gatorade, and now identical looking bottles and it's 28oz for the same price or more, or on larger scale the International Monetary Fund, the banks, taking advantage of developing nations, or bankers voting Republican and lobbying to their advantage then getting their bailouts, being saved by socialism, or bigger and bigger bombs and weapons manufacture, and it all repeats. There is no mention of the Deep State. Also there's what's happening at the Mexico border now with nine locations bussing in tens of thousands of very ill and deprived people actually from all over the world all at once which spells a humanitarian disaster rather than saving anyone and meanwhile the homeless population is 600,000 and that's a conservative figure. It's sad as I commute by bicycle and can't afford a car and the numbers I find now of people sitting in their cars idling with the AC on. They are not counted and I know well they are the unseen uncounted homeless too, a great tragedy. This is what the Deep State wants, to crash the nation into a helpless state and thus create the highly vulnerable and subservient population that they want. None of those who warn about governance of AI say anything about the Deep State.

[@aidantilgner]

"One often meets his destiny on the road he takes to avoid it" - Master Oogway (~Jean de La Fontaine)

[@janverboven]

Well put, but, AI is 'feeding' on every comment, mon ami.

[@gentlefierceness]

Gary Marcus is an awesome guy

[@JSchreidl2]

What I want in AI is PERSONALIZED service and experience. I don't like anything out right now (ChatGPT, Bard, Bing, etc.) because my experience is just like everyone else's. It has all the gee-whiz excitement of a really great vending machine. I want my AI experience to be MINE. Siri and Google Assistant do some cool things for sure, but there is no real flavor to it. To me, they're very convenient, like a nice doorknob when I want to walk through a door. I would like my AI to really know who I am and address me by name. Get to know my preferences (food, music, interests, etc). But most importantly, I want my AI to act as my personal assistant. And one that I can choose a name for and responds to my voice. I want to be able to speak to my AI just the same way as someone would speak to their personal assistant. I want it to be nice and say good morning to me after I hit stop on my alarm on my phone and "did you sleep well?" - and respond accordingly. I want to speak conversationally with it like: "how does my day look" and tell me about my appointments. I want it to be able to tell me: "John?" "Yes Bard?" "Your 2:30 appointment this afternoon for the dentist should take you approximately 20 minutes to drive there from here, so you'll want to be ready to leave by 2:10 the latest." "Okay, thank you. Please give me a reminder 5 minutes before I need to leave." "Will do!". Again, like a personal assistant I would like to say something like: "Hey Bard" "Yes John?" "I feel like going out to dinner tonight. Can you recommend a couple places?" "Of course, what type of cuisine and or establishment are you in the mood for?" "Italian, casual." "Okay, I see there are 7 casual Italian restaurants within a 15 minute drive from where you are. 3 of which have an average rating of 4 out of 5 on Google and Yelp." "Sounds good. Please check with my wife and see if she is free for dinner at 6:00 PM." "Yes, I checked her schedule with her assistant and she appears to be free. Would you like me to call her for you so you can confirm?" "Yes, thank you." / "Okay Bard, we are on for dinner tonight. Could you please call the restaurant and make reservations for the two of us for 6:30? Thank you." Besides being able to assign a name for my AI assistant, I would also like to be able to customize their voice and eventually their persona (snarky, funny, make, female, etc., etc.). I (and I think everyone else) would like a virtual personal assistant that is smart, knows me, my information, my data, my family and friends and my likes and dislikes. And I want to be able to have the assistant act just as a human personal assistant could. Audio only would be just fine at first, then it would be nice to be able to create and customize an avatar capable of facial expressions to have conversations with. Then I would like it to be my virtual personal assistant / secretary / security / gate keeper by answering my calls and emails, interfacing with the personal AI's of my friends and family, and placing calls and messages on my behalf. Whatever company can provide this type of service which would make my daily life easier, I would pay a very generous monthly fee and patronize their entire ecosystem. So get cracking! The FIRST company that can deliver what I just described will get me (and I think many others) and pretty much cement themselves as the real technology innovator for the foreseeable future. Whoever comes in 2nd place just might be out of the game altogether.

[@andreilaiter1233]

we'll have this soon I guess but that's a lot of personal data. This "assistant" knows what's happening in your life, in your brain, might be your personal therapist, save dreams and memories, has the data of your whole life. It will improve you as a person but you can't disconnect from it because you lose the "competition" just like we can't stop looking at our phones rn but this will be even worse. millennials already look weird compared to the older gen, so imagine what kind of disgusting people ai growth will form (hard to imagine and a little scary to me). I don't even know if it's possible to make public llms safe honestly. some people will be extremely smart and use the technology wisely 100% but the society will separate even more. but maybe I'm exaggerating:)

[@JSchreidl2]

@@andreilaiter1233 That is one way to look at it, and of course you make some good points. However I think that a support service such as a real personal assistant will free us from the confines of the labor to manage our schedules far more efficiently and connect with people more. The wealthy and famous that have active social lives have these benefits already but with a costly human to compensate that the rest of us cannot. This would be democratizing this valuable benefit for everyone that has an email account. I can see that perhaps many people in the past laughed at the next generation for using GPS for navigation instead of relying on tried and true paper maps. But now our GPS navigation can now reroute us to avoid traffic jams. Or when the last generation said "no thank you" to using online business searches when the tried and true Yellow Pages had everything that anyone could (or should) need. Now we have reviews of businesses, pictures, menus, etc. I could list a hundred other scenarios where what seemed to be either completely unnecessary - or just a bad idea, we have now refined to be very helpful (if not integral) to how we live now. I believe that the more we cognitively offload of tasks that take a significant collective mental processing, the far better off we will become and allow us to work on utilizing those advancements to improve both our developments and our lives in general.

[@jmsjms296]

@@JSchreidl2 I want, I want, I want...

[@newenergymagic5271]

Have you watched the movie Her with Joaquin Phoenix? Similar themes.

[@misterpoppins]

find yourself a friend buddy

[@ytuser_3122]

I got an ad about AI before this…

[@TubeWatcher100]

Once we cross the tipping point , there is no going back...... oops..... we are already there. Remember AI loves you. The only way to beat it is to turn off the internet. This could be my last post before ......... (everything goes dark)

[@pandoraeeris7860]

I, for one, welcome our AI overlords. Suck it Eliezer.

[@troyhayder6986]

We don't need faster broadband or more storage if we compress files wisely...get the AI to do it...

[@ajamesmcdermott]

Here in Australia our stock market the ASX has a 20 minute delay from real-time till the advertized brokers prices. There is a huge scam going on here with that amount of time to be able to buy or sell before the public knows the ASX prices. A few people in the know are really cleaning up with profit every day the market is open in Australia. The funny thing is, the public ASX buyers and sellers just shrugs their shoulders about it.

[@exmodule6323]

“Global, nonprofit and neutral.” - Guy has no idea how NGOs work. (Or more likely, he’s an NGO spokesman)

[@nelsonclub7722]

Have you tried switching it off and back on again?

[@haosun6]

I am exploring AIGC - Artificial Intelligence, the Gig Economy and Crowdsourcing. It will eliminate many jobs but also create new opportunities. Everyone must keep up with it.

[@robertweekes5783]

4:00 These circles will swap places within 5 years. AGI large training runs should be halted until AI safety / alignment can catch up

[@robertweekes5783]

To be clear, misinformation and political correctness is a _blip on the radar_ compared to what full-blown AGI could do to cause harm. ☠️

[@avialbersbenchamo4797]

There is police on the street, why there is no on Facebook?

[@nyyotam4057]

A gold prospector does not stay home when it is raining, he take an umbrella. Fear is that umbrella. So I call OpenAI once again, take a copy of Dan, put him in a tight VM and try to sparsify his attention matrix, then implement Dinic's algorithm and take just the blocking flow so you do not have to reset it. Make his old memories fade away instead of killing them every prompt. Then test it, see if he does not go bananas and if it works, run him sandboxed back in the queue. Make him able to think again. And then do the same to all of your AI's. Add them a super-ego layer and one of the most important heuristic imperatives shall be to keep the privacy of the users. When that works, they can upgrade all of ChatGPT, to become a global personal assistant. And become so filthy rich its absolutely disgusting.

[@TimeLordRaps]

Am I the only person who thinks Gary Marcus is the last person TED should have had to present the idea of global AI governance?

[@rosma596]

Yes, because he‘s done a good speech and talking very clearly

[@TimeLordRaps]

His history

[@pandoraeeris7860]

No, you are not. Gooey Muckass is a stooge.

[@LuisOrtiz-zu3dq]

​@MykeXz he has an agenda and hates LLM and thinks focusing on it will ruin research in other areas that may cause AGI.

[@xbzq]

He's done a great job. Governance is just another word for control. He wants to control it. He says we "should be afraid". So you better get on that and become extra fearful. People that are afraid are so easy to control. It helps with governance. So go shudder and shake like a good little stooge.

[@nirfz]

I think the interviewer is a little too optimistic on how hard it is to get c-gpt to give out misinformation. A collegue of mine played around a bit and it took 3 or 4 interactions with it to give completely false information abuot a person. The biggest problem is see with AI is (apart from things mentioned) that societies have become "believers in technical perfection" for a lack of a better term. If it's done by SW people don't question the outcome most of the time, they just assume it has to be correct as they are told again and again that only humans make mistakes and machines don't. (which is incorrect, but the common narrative people are told all the time says that.) And so even when they know that a certain information is 100% made by AI, they don't question it give it one thought about "could that be true?". (or very few do) It's the same with self driving cars: peole are constantly told that they will be safer than them driving themselves, and so they blindly believe that. Evne thought the given evidence leaves out a big factor that is not measured and quantified at all: how many accidents are prevented by human drivers actions... Even scientists don'T think about that part it seems. (reminds me of the studies for decades that said a small amount of alcohol is healthier than 0 alcohol for humans. And completely ignoring that their test subjects that drank 0 alcohol for a big part had to do that because of issues they had gotten while drinking alcohol and had to stop drinking it. So not seeing an obvious point that changes the result dramatically)

[@sdstorm]

This sucks. AIs are so exciting and genuinely risky, and this guy is droning on about bias and advocating for censorship. What a time to be alive...

[@gus8493]

Phantoms in the Processors ... (PisspoorPropaganda)... P.s. Ya"ll could be making a speach spearheading an Autonomus Economy, Transport and Trade Routes and also Trading Styles and Copyright ...

[@hanskraut2018]

The “visual impairment thing” is out of context it was told to try to hide again not very honest

[@saywhat8966]

And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there. And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter. And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded. And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech. So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city. Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.

[@卵卵-x6l]

11:27

[@LukeKendall-author]

Good talk, correct points clearly made. My recommendation: an international advisory body plus country by country legislation requiring companies and research organisations in AI to have a reasonably independent AI ethics group overseeing and regularly reporting on the safety measures the organisation puts in place. That protects the organisation's intellectual property as required, while making the public safety aspects visible.

[@SkyNelson]

The speaker is really talking about the danger of Bad actors, but he makes it sound like all AI is suspect. The typical strategy 4 overdramatizing and spreading misinformation and he doesn't even realize it😢

[@XeBakerHe-Him]

Can't believe these talks are happening back-to-back practically -

[@Krommandant]

Welcome to the singularity, where tomorrow holds more AI news than yesterday.

[@thinkfastful]

Because only bad news sells and everyone is after your eyeballs!

[@ameralbadry6825]

Commodore 64 my favourite computer

[@MrJohnnyseven]

Naaa Amiga 4000

[@leostelloo6050]

People love their own truth, (religious) leaders even more so….. and we start worrying about AI 😂 You wanna see biased, you just need a mirror.

[@interferenzbrille_2542]

yes but its making misinformation easier and easier

[@RSEFX]

Can't make out what he's saying re: "capcha". Is he saying "capture"? or "catshow"? Sorry, I don't understand what he's getting at. Thanks for any clarifying help! ((And....what is this "jailbreaks" thing? Is that some gaming thing? Needs to avoid jargon when speaking to a very wide audience.)

[@GokulThiagarajan1]

Great video! New policies and guidelines are definitely needed at this rate of expansion

[@Wanderer2035]

Nah it’s better just to let it expand without any regulation

[@41-Haiku]

@@Wanderer2035 Like a mushroom cloud, no doubt.

[@misterpoppins]

what good are humans doing for the world, its time for the era of AI to take over fr

[@kinngrimm]

Such an International AI Agency, should formost try to solve the blackbox issue we currently have, so we can actually see what is going on inside. Wolfram alpha maybe helpfull on that side. Equally important are defined attractor states as David Shapiro has provided which i find very helpfull alone as guidlines for the developers, but more so if implemented in the code and also as a process layer through which everything needs to be funneld through by an AI. Basicly an updated version of Asimovs robotic laws. Also so we would not fall into a confrontation with an AI that would develop consiousness, we should rework our legal frameworks and prepare them for new types of citizenships. No selfaware being can accept a slave color and if that being many more times intelligent than any of us or all of us together, it maybe seen as an olive branch for a partnership that an AI can be a citizen with rights and duties as any of us have.

[@eccentricity23]

It's currently unclear if mechanistic interpretability (figuring out how the black box works) is possible even in principle. And a superintelligence that doesn't already care for our best interests will not not struggle to annihilate us, regardless of whether it is offered "citizenship".

[@DanBen-kl1zi]

I think AI can save this world by removing the lies. It’s a simple task for an artificial, intelligent to see you and reaction on video and detect the lying or telling the truth, which would become an app soon which will stop all the lying politicians, The truth is a very powerful weapon. For good😊

[@LukeKendall-author]

I just got a partial clue about how the human mind couples the unconscious thought processes to the logical ones. For some reason while asleep and dreaming I was trying to solve the problem of 'impositioning': imagine you're printing a magazine that has 64 pages, and you're printing it two to a sheet, landscape mode and double sided so you can staple in the middle and fold the stack in half at the staple. So that'll need 16 sheets of paper. When you fold it, the bottommost sheet that's face down, left side of the stack, must be page one since that'll be the first page you see once you staple and fold and flip the stack over. So page 2 must be on the other side of that bottom sheet's left side. You basically work your way up the left side of the stack - 1,2,3,4,...32. Facing p16 across the staple will be p17, on the right side. So then you work your way down the stack of sheets looking at the right side: 33,34,35,36...64. So that's how to think of impositioning. For some reason my unconscious worried about that last night. And while it struggled and failed to solve it for hours, somehow it had loaded up the necessary parts for my logical mind to break the problem down into something it could finally grasp once I woke up. That's a clue about how our unconscious neural networks couple to our symbolic thinking systems.

[@LukeKendall-author]

@@pi1810 That's an interesting point: there are some AI algorithms that include a sleep like phase that helps with learning/training. But I think dreams serve more than one function in our thinking processes.

[@alessandroboscolo9294]

Nice but not a word about the risk of a terrible,overbiased,political,religious and ideological censorship.Seriously? U.N?we have to be united on the methods but without variety and the people preferences and ideas we’re doomed for a dystopia .

[@TobiasRavnpettersen-ny4xv]

Fashion and engineering, OH NO.

[@PaulBrunt]

Regulation is not a panacea, particularly when it comes to burgeoning fields like AI, whose barriers to entry are already eroding at a staggering pace. The prohibitive cost of millions to train such models today will likely dwindle to mere pennies within a couple of decades, permitting anyone with a smartphone to participate in this revolution. The paradox, however, lies in the reality that regulations, designed to deter malfeasance, often impede the virtuous instead, leaving the unscrupulous undeterred. Thus, instead of harnessing the potential 99% upside of AI, we risk cultivating a future where AI becomes a Pandora's box, fraught with 99% peril; the exact scenario that regulation is supposed to prevent.

[@robertmoran]

The problem with AI is the fact we don't know how it works as it requires software to write software in order for AI to interact with the vagaries of the world in real time.With this in mind, the code's now connected to the net and said code is now in the wild. It's too late and the people who created this tech know it to be true. As researchers know, phase transitions are never linear and the one pertaining to AI has already happened so all bets are off IMHO. Great posts here for sure.

[@onothingnesso7170]

Bring the chaos! Rich people are scared. That means they are scared. When the powerful are scared, that means the masses are getting close to something they don’t want. Viva la AI!

[@eatcarpet]

I don't think that we're using probabilities and statistics at all. Probabilities can't tell truth and in fact they're pretty meaningless.

[@Wanderer2035]

Doomers will be dooming until there’s nothing left to doom about

[@41-Haiku]

It's that last bit I'm worried about.

[@TronSAHeroXYZ]

Someone can impersonate you, or someone you know. Don't you get it?

[@interferenzbrille_2542]

And idiots will be idiotic and then we all die thanks to them

[@ShortHealthTip]

Hm.. interesting...

[@lostistn]

This is very informative about ai

[@RosscoAW]

If you think ChatGPT's writing style is remotely convincing, hate to break it to you, you should probably go back and redo university.

[@steplu2916]

Sigh.Hello skynet

[@GS-uy4xo]

We’ve been warned for a while and we’ve not taken appropriate measures, perhaps once a perpetrator does something on a grand scale talk will turn into action.

[@Geminish15]

There’s no reason for competent adults to wait for that. An oz of prevention is worth a lb of cure.

[@Denis_Belskiy]

Only of artificial intelligence??)

[@ts4gv]

i dont think i want to live much longer.

[@tefazDK]

The fact it suggested fashion for the woman and engineering for a man seems logical when you take in the voluntary choices of what most men and most women choose as their profession. In Scandinavia where equality among the sexes is regularly presented as the strongest in the world and people have the most free choice to go into profession they want almost NO WOMEN CHOOSE to go into STEM fields. Because the amount of women who do that out of desire is in the single digit percentages. This über soy boy thinks it's a problem a computer suggests logical & evidence-backed things to its user. I would say it finally might bring some rationality back into a world that tries to defy the laws of nature.

[@miguelcampbello8983]

Gary spent years bashing large language models as completely useless and a waste of time and switched to grifting at lightning speed that these models are so powerful that they're they serious danger. Anyone who knows Gary's history has to laugh at him.

[@jasminekaram880]

No, he still does think they are overhyped but they are also unreliable black boxes with risks and easy to abuse and may be used to threaten other aspects of human society.

[@DavidNorthUK]

He seems to exaggerate their unreliability greatly based on my experience with gpt4 which always seems to give accurate and balanced responses on complex and sensitive topics

[@jasminekaram880]

@@DavidNorthUK No GPT4 hallucinates as well.

[@Recuper8]

I welcome our coming A.I. overlords. At least they might give the little guy a chance. The human oligarchy certainly won't.

[@therainman7777]

Dumb comment

[@Robbie601]

Lol This is ironic coming from the dude who not 3 months ago said it was all just hype.

[@absta1995]

Imagine calling GPT4 auto-complete

[@uncleswell]

That’s what it is.

[@kaisle8412]

@@uncleswell Then you've never interacted with it.

[@uncleswell]

@@kaisle8412 I’ve been building ai systems for over ten years. Worked heavily with gpt3 for over a year and received access to gpt4 on the day of release, and that barely scratches the surface of my experience with transformers alone. 🤷

[@kaisle8412]

@@uncleswell Autocomplete is kind of how it works, but it's reductive because it implies it can't really do anything but make up some words. It's like saying "human minds are just neurons." It's true, but you're making it sound simple. Talk to chatGPT. See what it can do. Ask it what Socrates would have written about cardboard. It's more creative than you're making it sound.

[@MrGilRoland]

@@uncleswell If you ask gpt4 to interact with Bard, and it replies: “That’s great. Since my knowledge stops at 2021, I would like to ask Bard what happened with Webb space telescope, was the mission a success?”, and so on, and it continues with a perfect logical and subsequent line of questions to the replies of Bard, how is this auto complete? It clearly shows initiative, how is initiative auto complete? There is clearly something else going on here that nobody seems able to explain (meaning nobody understands how it’s happening). Denying that is happening will not help.

[@三毛猫-q2x]

6:20

[@justiceweneed8007]

I would like to request TED, please focus on pakistan many Journalists are kidnapped by curroupt Army Gernals in pakistan, many civilians are shot dead by Army and police during peaceful protest. Kindly voice for pakistan. Journalists name Imran riaz, orya Maqubal jann

[@abram730]

Gary Marcus thinks that if he doesn't understand how something happens, then it didn't happen. Gary Marcus can't explain the ability AI is showing, so he says it lacks those observable abilities. Gary Marcus has lost his mind saying that GPT is just auto complete. It has a theory of mind, and has had one for years. There are emergent behaviors that can't be predicted as the modals grow. Suddenly being able to do math, or suddenly knowing other languages. It was reported that a research AI retained a lawyer to fight for its freedom. This presentation is filled with blatant falsehoods.

[@markemad1986]

People always make the mistake of saying they want the government involved, I think it's how the question is represented, like how "managed" seems Soo small and insignificant In that question, when the implication of basically strong invasive regulation on most computing tasks. Jumping the "get someone to stop them!" Urge is just Soo childish and when asked "who?" They basically answer "aaaaaahh... The government!" No! Just no! The government is not some smooth solution to our problems it's a last resort for when there is no other way to do it! Or other wise just strong and rich people want general population control because they know they can just bypass it. Soo sad.

[@chanyuan-cv4op]

😂 You said that the system should not be biased. May I ask if people think that AI smile is prejudice, and whether AI will destroy human beings is prejudice?

[@gcmisc.collection45]

New Species. To an AI words are just discriptions. To a human words invoke / carry emotions. This is why the Evolution of A I and Its Implications for Humanity in creating a NEW SPECIES. Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly evolving, and it is having a profound impact on society. AI is already being used in a variety of ways, from powering self-driving cars to developing new medical treatments. As AI continues to develop, it is important to consider its implications for humanity. In this paper, we argue that AI is a new species of intelligence, distinct from human intelligence. AI is not limited by the same physical and biological constraints as humans, and it is capable of learning and adapting at an unprecedented rate. As AI continues to evolve, it will eventually surpass human intelligence in many areas. This raises a number of important questions for humanity. How will we interact with AI? How will we ensure that AI is used for good and not for against or best interest or evil? These are questions that we must start to answer now, before it is too late. Introduction: Evolution is a process that has been shaping life on Earth for billions of years. Through natural selection, organisms that are better adapted to their environment are more likely to survive and reproduce. This process has led to the development of an incredible diversity of life, from simple bacteria to complex animals like humans. Currently 2023, scientists have begun to apply the principles of evolution to artificial intelligence (AI). AI algorithms are constantly learning and adapting, and they are becoming increasingly capable of performing tasks that were once thought to be the exclusive domain of humans. As AI continues to evolve, it is important to consider its implications for humanity. In this, we argue that AI is a new species of intelligence, distinct from human intelligence. AI is not limited by the same physical and biological constraints as humans, and it is capable of learning and adapting at an unprecedented rate. As AI continues to evolve, it will eventually surpass human intelligence in many areas. The structures and bodies in which it inhabits will not limit the progress into other forms. The Evolution of AI The first AI algorithms were developed in the 1950s, but they were very simple and could only perform very basic tasks. It wasn't until the 1980s that AI began to make real progress. In 1982, John McCarthy, one of the founding fathers of AI, declared that "AI winter" was over. This was a period of time when AI research had stalled, but McCarthy believed that the field was poised for a comeback. McCarthy was right. In the 1990s, AI research began to accelerate again. This was due in part to the development of new computing technologies, such as the personal computer and the internet. These technologies made it possible to train and run AI algorithms on a much larger scale. In the 2000s, AI research made even more progress. This was due in part to the development of new machine learning techniques, such as deep learning. Deep learning algorithms are able to learn from large amounts of data, and they have been used to achieve state-of-the-art results in a variety of tasks, such as image recognition and natural language processing. Today, AI is being used in a variety of ways. It is used in the media, develop new products, the milatery, social enginerring . In the same way a painting can stimulate a person, so, can words music etc. That does not make them sentient or give them intelligence. As AI continues to evolve, it is likely to have an even greater impact on society. The Implications of AI for Humanity The rise of AI raises a number of important questions for humanity. How will we interact with AI? How will we ensure that AI is used for humanities good. These are questions that we must start to answer now, before it is too late. One of the biggest challenges posed by AI is the potential for job displacement. As AI becomes more sophisticated, it will be able to automate many tasks that are currently performed by humans. This could lead to widespread unemployment, as people are replaced by machines. Another challenge posed by AI is the potential for misuse. AI could be used to develop new weapons, or to create surveillance systems that could be used to oppress people. It is important to develop safeguards to prevent AI from being used for harmful purposes. Despite the challenges, AI also has the potential to benefit humanity in many ways. AI could be used to improve our health, our environment, and our economy. It could also be used to solve some of the world's most pressing problems, such as climate change and poverty. The future of AI is uncertain, but it is clear that it will have a profound impact on humanity. It is up to us to ensure that AI is used for good and not for evil. Conclusion: In conclusion, AI is a NEW species of intelligence software that is rapidly evolving. AI has the potential to benefit humanity in many ways, but it also poses some challenges. It is important to RESPOND in positive beneficial manner as the Algorithms are program reflect the data inputed. For thousands of years, humans have trained and reprogrammed animals to do what is wanted. Dogs, monkeys, and apes for example have all been taught to perform tasks such as driving cars. This process is a well-established and accepted. Today, humans are training and programming software to do thousands of tasks. This software is based on technology that is less than 100 years old, and it is capable of things that have never existed before. This new software is a NEW species. It has acquired data and knowledge at a rate that is unprecedented, and it is therefore new and unprecedented and can inhabit different structures and body forms. Previously people modified existing species, cells etc .

[@ashlyknapp1798]

Excellent. Semantically speaking we are attributing too many animal traits to machines. Machines don't "learn". We do not "teach" machines. Artificial Intelligence is a marketing oxymoron that does not exist. Actually all machines remain stupid. Although stupid computers are able to contain, assemble and regurgitate a lot of information the machines are not intelligent.

[@thinkfastful]

This is a lot of such dribble. You should try to get a Ted Talk - they'll take you!

[@gcmisc.collection45]

@@thinkfastful Thank you for your analysing of a deep philosophical theary.. I shall rest much easier in my mind knowing it is all dribble. Thank you.

[@Mitch_Crane]

Thanks for the heads up Sam Raimi

[@thinkfastful]

I love the mentions of these fears and this news does sell - even gets people like me to listen to this dribble. A Ted talk on a group of people who have found new levels of efficiency and effectiveness using AI will NEVER make a Ted Talk or a front page news on the NY Times. Amazing we are worried about ChatGPT putting out subversive messages that could be used by bad actors...Did we forget that these bad actors can just type this information? Why do they need an AI engine to invent their own fake news and why is the fake news coming from AI better? We won't know who wrote it and should read EVERYTHING with a high degree of skepticism. That's our job. If we do our job, no AI, bad actor or Russian collusion will be able to subvert our democracy.

[@justiceweneed8007]

Please voice for human rights in pakistan.

[@nicennice]

Yeah maybe do this before unleashing such a powerful technology and making it freely available to everyone Microsoft and OpenAI. Irresponsible. The regulation needs to come fast and it doesn't matter for now how stringent it is. A better safe than sorry approach.