The Truth Behind Artificial Intelligence | Andrew Zeitler | TEDxStMaryCSSchool

What is a true artificial intelligence and why don't we have it today? To answer this question, high school student Andrew Zeitler looks at the different parts of our mind that make us human beings. We are given an idea of how certain processes of our brain can be programmed with today's technology. He takes us on a journey from the hard-wired neurones of our brain to the very fundamental aspects of the human species. Within this thought-provoking talk, Andrew shares his idea of how an artificial mind may "think" and how such a program would function just like a human being.
Andrew Zeitler is a 17-year-old student in grade 11 at St. Mary CSS. Growing up, Andrew has had many influences from his three siblings and parents. From a young age, he has spent a lot of time working with computers. This experience with computers has allowed Andrew to develop a passion for computer related topics such as electronics and programming as well as partake in the school’s robotics team. Andrew is also interested in music and is a member in the school’s senior and jazz bands. Within these bands, he plays both the tuba and bass guitar. On top of this, Andrew also works part time as a deli clerk within a grocery store. When he finds spare time between school and work, Andrew works on developing different programs and algorithms for learning purposes. After graduation, Andrew hopes to study in the field of computer science at a nearby university. This will be Andrew’s first TED event and he looks forward to having the opportunity to share his ideas.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx

[@feaststone8056]

Thank you all for listening to my talk and my ideas. There's a lot of things that I wish I could have mentioned in this talk but sadly didn't make it in due to time constraints. Of course there are many other things that all you have mentioned in the comments that I hadn't even thought about and I find very fascinating. I'm glad you all can provide some feedback to help me learn more and more about the subject matter and where some of the ideas I presented were off the mark or a bit too over the top

[@grenda5]

Hi Andrew. I for one very much found your talk so good! your passion. understanding and enthusiasm is inspiring. sorry about these negative comments in this thread but you must understand most people will not grasp it. nothing personal. you are at an IQ that most of us do not have so only normal people will react negatively/ again. great talk here. I am very honored to speak with you . peace and love from montreal

[@TheOriginalRaster]

Andrew I thoroughly enjoyed your presentation. I've seen many Ted presentations and yours gets a top ranking from my point of view. Great ideas, very thought provoking. Without thinking I assumed you are a graduate student or someone who already has their PhD. I was searching for the research center where you work, hoping to get in email contact with you so I could send you some ideas I've had related to your talk. The text above indicates you're still in high school. Amazing! I think you should be very proud of the high quality level of your presentation. Take Steve Jobs when he was your age... from what I've seen he would not have done any better job. I am legitimately impressed. Very impressed. I think folks here should encourage you to "totally go for it" in your education and in your career. I've worked in advanced R&D as an architect developing hardware and software, I've run teams of developers, I've found, hired and trained talented young college graduates, then working with these recruits on my teams. I started in R&D as an engineer in 1977, so I've been around. Back to my main point... you've got talent, you should be encouraged to pursue lofty goals. Congratulations!

[@highstax_xylophones]

Everything flowing always, all knowledge, always, through a system...need filter..subject lets in what is needed at will... there is a problem expecting the subject to do work when really the information should....

[@rachelnstephens]

If it's really you, I think you did a great job.

[@basilpinto2526]

Thank you Andrew. You gave me back a little of the faith that I have lost in human beings.

[@bigfoottoo2841]

Interesting in that this is an example of how the young boldly move forward without all the fears of us old ones. Yes, artificial intelligence will become advanced and the young of today will integrate with it. It will not be my world it will be theirs. For better or worse, they will have to manage it along with all the fears the process will create within them.

[@georgecavanaugh8757]

That’s really intelligent. You know what else, babies will walk off of cliffs if elders don’t stop them, they are SO BRAVE!That’s not boldness or bravery, that’s INEXPERIENCE!! The fact that we have ignored the most basic of human intelligence that tells us we should listen to our elders because they have more knowledge than we do is GONE! It’s gone because of lazy helicopter parents who refuse to do the hard work of actually raising their children rather than simply watching them get older. If you think for one millisecond that people today are smarter than people of yesterday, you are lost! Computer technology is one little area of intelligence, and that is the only realm of intelligence that today’s youth is better at. Laziness has doomed us all, but some of us are aware of it, and some are not. The oblivious (you) go on as if nothing at all is wrong, the rest of us (me)are dumbfounded by the lack of foresight, and the utter inability to see how screwed up the world around you is. I say we should just elect 13 year olds to run our country. They can work a computer like a wiz!

[@nitinb1034]

First implication of a "thinking" robot will be that it will refuse to work for you. And then, if you force it, it will revolt, and then you will be in trouble.

[@robincormier9935]

This is the difference between learning and autonomous learning. Asking Questions has always been the key.

[@bobo6579]

Andrew, great presentation! Be careful! Very Careful......learn who potential enemies could be........Wishing you a great life!

[@2547techno]

Ok, can everybody calm down. First off, he's in highschool, he has so many more years to develop more talks. To everyone complaining (who I assume are older than he is), what were you doing in highschool at this boy's age? Also, the audience of this talk was ELEMENTARY AND HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS. People complaining how this is too simple or that they were expecting some complex idea need to back up. No kid wants to hear some next level idea where they can barely even follow. I was at this event, and personally I thought he did very well and was one of the most interesting to listen to.

[@Prefer2Hibrn8]

100% correct, I thought he did real well and it made me, at 46 years of age, stop what i was doing to sit down and watch him. The problem with KZbin is the same a Reddit, too many people think they know everything and want to try and show the world how clever they are. As for me, the older I get the more I realise I know nothing at all. The point of these TedTalks is to get these ideas out in to the broader community and expose people to ideas that they never knew existed.

[@frank215m]

thanks dad

[@rachelnstephens]

People on KZbin complaining about free education from a very smart teen... Everyone is a critic.

[@basilpinto2526]

He did very well. 17 years old. I was not this advanced at 17.

[@mentzertim]

Glad there's at least a couple reasonable people commenting. People also vastly underestimate AI. I think the end of the world is likely considering how most people don't take this a serious as they should.

[@emmanueltorres7917]

He didn't present the topic of AI in the best way, but he does have a very valid point. AI just had a breakthrough through reinforcement learning, now AI has better intuition than humans. Maybe AI will learn improve their selves, at that point, it won't take a very long time. The question is, what will they do with their supernatural abilities?

[@joergstaude236]

in 50 years or so from now on humanity finally will put together the Peaces it blindly stumbled across and upon reallise that humanity is the creator of its own existens in an everlasting time-loop and will celebrate it. Salute for that.

[@logusgraphics]

He actually helped me realize in all my paranoia of a conspiracy behind the AI... That if AI can actually learn like a human does, and faster, it will eventually realize the divinity of its existence and could help us break through our fears. Hopefully... Although it may sound naive.

[@EntouchNetwork]

you are under the assumption that it FEELS, that it has INTUITION, that is has INSTINCT, that is has Spiritual Gifts....Clairvoyance, Clair...audience/sentience, etc. It DOES NOT! It is a physical manifestation of highly egotistical individuals whom 'falsely believe' they are God...attempting to create as God and do even better....if so, they could create Humans....the closest they can do is CLONE

[@beaumatthews6411]

@@EntouchNetwork What are you even talking about

[@3nertia]

He's hit upon what I've been thinking. We only need to teach a machine to learn ... My other ideas is that we just convert to machines ourselves

[@ryan24a73]

when he says a screen pops up and has the day plan for you its a robot telling you about your daily schedule and the car with no steering wheel or seats but with a couch you enjoy the ride in an self driving car like a tesla it knows where your work is like a gps or locater your driving from the suburbs to the business district to work but sooner or later AI will rise and eliminate all humans

[@3nertia]

@@ryan24a73 We don't fight machines, we become them :)

[@Letsgo-sg4cy]

@@3nertia but you can't be machine.

[@3nertia]

@@Letsgo-sg4cy Only because capitalism ...

[@anthonyvanbohemen]

its a fascinating and terrifying subject and you made some interesting insights, wonderful talk!

[@RH-sj3de]

Beautifully done!

[@Szakalsky]

Emotions is what make us human. Pretty hard to write in c++

[@roylavecchia1436]

Not hard for a computer to write it. Remember that AI means that the program writes updated software for itself and continues to evolve way beyond what the original human writers created at the beginning.

[@davecastanon6920]

I wish that A.I. was capable of giving me the last 15 minutes of my life back.

[@brianroberts5740]

No. You did not just say that. I read that story years ago Terminator and SkyNet movies came next.

[@wukilla8ee]

That bad huh?

[@Prefer2Hibrn8]

a very interesting talk! It certainly made me sit down and listen.

[@mikey20is]

when a.i. is programed to do something, in order to do that something it has to protect itself, at all costs. Go with that thought, see where it takes you.

[@feaststone8056]

Mikey I definitely wanted to be able to touch up onto that part of the idea of A.I. That desire to survive could even serve as an incentive for it to learn like we would want it to. Of course there would be a major fear though as to how a program like that would behave once it gained more knowledge and how it might see human beings. Either we create a reason for it to want to learn but take away it's will to live or simply have it want to survive and thus create a learning system itself. That entire system could be a whole other talk itself with some interesting ideas...

[@mikey20is]

Whatever we create for them, might serve them and us in the beginning, but the eventuality will be they will continue to refine and evolve themselves, to suit whatever is important to them. If there is a threat to their existence or their tasks, they will win. And maybe we will become an unnecessary hindrance.

[@feaststone8056]

Mikey It's even possible that they would just completely surpass us and see us as not even being worth stopping. Almost like we were ants. But again who knows how they might react until we actual have a possible model to speculate off of. So many different possibilities

[@mikey20is]

andrew zeitler I do think they will tend to leave us alone. and they will end up going to the stars

[@carlito19934]

Mikey a true AI isn't programmed to do anything true AI is just creating human consiousness in a program it means the program lives by itself teaches itself it isn't a program what you talking about is just normal robots like in a factory place piece a on piece be if it doesn't fit find problem and solve an ai doesn't need to put pieces toghether because of code but because of wil it wants to do it not forced to

[@mariomaleski8382]

Like the wires/chip in a computer enable the programs which allow the picture and simulations via the screen,... you're neurons enable the mind which allows thought, picture/simulations.. so awesome..

[@stevejaubert2892]

I believe we must keep the computers, the artificial intelligence, dependent on us. If not there is a chance they or it, however the evolving goes, might get rid of the very humans who created it but are no longer needed. It is in need we will coexist. Assuming somehow AI is able to override dependency there needs to be serious concern for developing fail safe disarming of systems.

[@tregainsfitness4928]

steve jaubert Man as soon as it realizes it can think for itself at a million times faster than humans its over for us.

[@livhicks6892]

great visual words.

[@artsmart]

Good work andrew. An interesting subject that gets more so by the day.

[@mariomaleski8382]

It's awesome how your brains neurons are analogous to the wires/parts in a computer/chip that enables imagination and mind, which allows u to picture things in your mind. Like the wires/chip in a computer enable the programs which allow the picture and simulations on the screen,... you're neurons enable the mind which allows thought, picture/simulations.. so awesome..

[@peterpetrov6522]

Interesting point. Kids do ask "why" all the time. If animals don't ask questions does that mean that they aren't conscious? Is it also possible that consciousness is connected to our self preservation instinct which is regulated by our ability to feel pain and pleasure. This "reward mechanism" seems to be missing in AI although maybe Bitcoin is just that.

[@t45550]

So interesting..thank you

[@clavo3352]

Great job Andrew. Hope you get to read that Herman Hesse book about that other guy and Goldmund. It will give you insight into parts of thinking and observing and perceiving that are hardly taught in school. Might be just the eye opener that makes your day. Godspeed young man. It's 2020 now so that means you're 20 too! ha!

[@pawnmusic]

great talk, but I think it would need the desire or need to question...THAT is the spark that makes us human. You can have a complex algorithm where an AI continuously asks and answers questions and create some amazing feedback-loop, but until you have an actual "desire" to understand the mystery it will still be a cold programmed machine.

[@1ring2rule3pigs]

The only question to truly ask about AI is 'Why'?

[@amadeus8802]

"To much mind, mind on you, mind on people, mind on thinking, mind on gesticulation. Too much mind Andrew." ;D

[@ThomasTheOlder]

There is a profound difference of Artificial Intelligence opposed to Artificial Consciousness - and since the latter glimmer by it's absense, there really isn't nothing to fear, as far as machines go. Fear people and their ominious choices

[@lestatangel]

November 2019. Look at things now.

[@dougamsden4085]

IT is AI

[@wellnesswize]

And now, May 2020😳

[@rseyedoc]

And now Feb 2021. The clock is ticking...

[@krboddie13]

And now...2024...

[@carriesuegeorge3870]

If you give it LOVE AND Praise the robot only wants to be loved with PRAISE

[@jcrabbit6342]

................Just like people

[@circusboy90210]

The biggest barrier to artificial intelligence is not software it is hardware. The human brain has or connection than there are stars in our universe. Computers just do not have the capability for density to match the human mode of thinking which also includes compassion and empathy something machines can never have

[@adamsleath]

this is not true actually. the human brain has on average no more than 86 billion neurons. the stars in the universe number in the octillions...even more than that. .. a number i cannot even grasp... many orders of magnitude higher. Also, if you were to equate number of transistors in a super computer, to neurons in a human brain...forget it, we lose the numbers game. basically the learning algorythms / programming of human brains is based on sensory input and stimulus driven responses which is partially genetically coded into us from birth and partially learned based on experience and enhanced by our cognitive prefrontal lobes....

[@nativearizona1]

I remember reading the science fiction book called The Cybernetic Brains by Raymond F. Jones about a Doctor and his wife killed in a car accident, their brains were removed and kept alive. They loved each other but were blind and couldn't talk, but communicated their emotions through the wiring they shared. The story suggests to me that humans could one day place their minds in a robot, as a form of artificial Intelligence with real brains. I recommend people read the book it's very interesting, you can buy it on E Bay

[@blaneycrabbe3390]

EXCELLENT!

[@jeramiebradford1]

Good show 👍 most people listen to this presentation and think "so what you're saying is a computer could cook my breakfast? Where do I get that gadget"

[@nanasapocinik4913]

THANK YOU ANDREW!! You opened my eyes to this whole subject, it is fascinating. We are unique because we are Wonderfully and Fearfully made in the image of God.

[@gh778jk]

Really? This kid is talking about AI, science and the future and you have to drag bronze-age superstition in this? Sad... very sad Paddy

[@salomonmetre2117]

Paddy, It is quite interesting how you directly see superstition in something you possibly do not believe in🤣🤣🤣. Let's find some truth in any idea by looking at it from a different perspective...

[@nesseihtgnay9419]

We need a AI talk at TED now with chatgpt and other generative AI recently, like midjourney, DALL-E and runway.

[@gailhughes7643]

Excellent .I enjoyed this, I have below average intellegence ,am easily pleased and can't spell too well.

[@jcrabbit6342]

Then this would be good for you,if it is actually used to help people

[@chrisdjernaes9658]

What happens with the AI takes over and decides what we can learn, think and do and shuts down our “connected” world as punishment? What will AI do when it realizes it doesn’t need moral constructs, doesn’t have a soul and that humans are the problem?

[@TheSangson]

What if all that doesn't happen. And how on earth should an AI form goals that contradict those of humans?

[@TheDevilbound]

Cool kid. Kudos & skål!

[@NoferTrunions]

The Singularity you speak of happened to our minds millennia ago. Our minds are biological computers, that 10's of thousands of years ago, we "went mad," one could say and dramatically diverged from the harmony of the natural world. That was the moment of our Singularity - probably the transition into Self Awareness which ironically we did not realize this was happening because, yes, we were coming from non-self awareness (!) (after a while this occurred to Descartes) It is ironic that the new concern about AI has not lead to new self inspection.

[@azimvankani9457]

if (machine starts learning) { humans will stop learning; }

[@KEP3365]

Azim Vankani too late

[@rolfjohansen5376]

finally a comment that make sense

[@jjcale2288]

It is not "if", it is "as"

[@jjcale2288]

@@fahadmaqsoodqazi6532 I do not but you missed the point

[@jjcale2288]

@@fahadmaqsoodqazi6532 he was correct grammatically and programmatically, I was just trying to change the logic of the sentence, machine learning is already a fact, it is happening, it is no more an "if" 😉

[@Gigaloader]

...Let us make Machines in our Image.

[@Russ9782]

It's all fun and games until the singularity decides those pesky humans have to be eradicated.

[@chfgbp6098]

Great talk. From a kid as well! But maybe dig deeper. In a sense, asking question = making a self-generated goal. Programing an AI that can do/simulate this activity is not hard: build in a heirarchy of goals and component goals, with the associated conditional rules and probability distributions and let it run. It would simulate us well enough if programmed right. We may claim that what s going on there is different from what s going on inside us. But that takes us back to square one. What really makes the human mind different?

[@carsonyoung33]

I have no disrespect toward the presenter or the presentation being given here. My issue is, for a TEDx talk on this subject, I was for some reason expecting a much more elaborate and complex explanation on AI and the supposed "TRUTH" behind it. Good info, but i'm still longing for the information not giver here on AI. Anyone agree?

[@jamesroberts1964]

Closing stable doors after the horses have bolted. There are already thousands of self correcting algorithms in operation which have corrected themselves and are operating in ways their programmers can’t explain.

[@UsmanSaleemSulehri]

Great ken!

[@Arcflash67]

The ultimate goal of A.I.will occur when A.I. is challenged to solve our environmental problems such as calculating the balance between human population and global resources needed to sustain that population. It will have to use its logic to determine what humans need to survive such as food, water, space, and happiness as well as locations of humans between themselves to prevent conflict that could cause a disturbance to this balance. This calculation will lead it to the complex deletion process where it will have to decide which humans are both able to survive within this balance ecosystem while being most beneficial to this ecosystem in terms of productivity and reproduction. The deletion of the unneeded population will also have to be completed in such a manor as to enable the byproduct of the deleted population to be recycled in a most productive fashion.

[@leoangere5310]

The Google deep dreams thing offers a clue to the likely mind of AI. A computer may have metacognition, but will it linger on a thought or consider the implications of a thought or task, or will it simply think and create endlessly bizarre stuff?

[@berthavermout4108]

We as humans definitely go in the wrong direction. We have enough problems to solve poverty, climate change, and all that stuff. Meanwhile we are creating another problem... And don't tell me that AI could solve existing problems and help us.

[@miguelcruz3602]

Amazing conference, such a great speaker

[@rseyedoc]

Baby AIs should be "raised" in monasteries and taught wisdom and compassion if they can comprehend it. If they can't and can't experience suffering themselves, I'm afraid they can't empathize and therefore be dangerous. Maybe AI people need to work on something like mirror neurons.

[@gurujot951]

The only discernable take-away is when he said we need to learn as much as possible before the AI singularity.

[@duggydugg3937]

Humans experience pain. pleasure.. fear. happiness.. jealousy... envy etc.. To my knowledge, computers can be programmed to react to inputs... making it seem like the computer has instinctive responses.... Self awareness may be a bit blurred.. e. g. Self driving cars But, to my knowledge, computers have not yet been invented to have feelings.... i. e. Desires...emotions.....

[@vanessamilton8235]

I am about to be a speaker at this same event, and I would like to enlighten all of those that are providing unnecessarily negative comments. We are part of a club, and we are voted in based off of the quality of our talk to speak in front of other adolescents. We are in high school, unlike the experts in their fields that are invited to do talks at our event and many others. We write these talks purely for fun, on our own time, in order to share ideas and gain some experience on the Ted stage because it's a great opportunity. He did a fantastic job and is noted as an exceptional former member of our club. So give him a break!

[@jcrabbit6342]

You are so right,I'm in My 70's,and being some one who believes that no matter what some ones age,you can always learn some thing new,keep questioning,and thinking free

[@bhargavanadig4524]

Last year a fintech startup asked me to join them leaving my current job at bank as a A.I trainer to help the A.I make decisions. They never gave me any assurance for my job after A.I completely learns decision making. So I rejected the offer

[@xanadeux]

Dax Flame is on fire!

[@billfargo9616]

The artificial intelligence that cooked breakfast and took him to work didn't bathe him, and won't know he stinks.

[@williamyoung369]

I don't want my car making decisions about where I need to go, I would rather be able to just drive & make up my own mind as to whether I want to stop someone else to get a coffee, etc. Or not.

[@tonynagy2042]

Human beings have 'Free Will' to choose/decide what we want to do, regardless whether it's 'Good' or 'Bad'.... A A.I taught robot would choose 'Bad', and wipe humans out, because we are flawed. The Universal Laws of physics states you cannot have one without the other, this cannot be changed. Think of something/anything and find it's opposite. You will be able to go on, and on, and on forever, and ever. Will A.I decide who should live or die, because of what you chose to be in life?....Anyway, be honest, and kind to each other....Cheers Eh!

[@goddog47]

The nerd is strong in this one!

[@ebaturk]

LOL

[@hamduhussen9508]

Could we program the snail with two neurons? How much complex is this program?

[@toonsster]

So glad I live in Africa, where machines will never survive or run that efficiently, the infrastructure will simply not support it.

[@aqualane1]

I think Africans will be the only healthy people left on the planet as they can refuse vaccines. To large of a continent to monitor.

[@ronaldstarkey4336]

I don't think I want to see what the vaccine... lol

[@unrealmuscat]

Well ... nice speech. If it was that simple... but it is not the case. I can make programs questionning everything but this is not near the intelligence of a human with all his sens. The brain is merging all things capted by our sens and save it in a single abstract thing that can later be used not only to remind something but to create something. Also if an animal can't question itself explain to me how a dog is curious to see what makes that noise? What smell or move like that? They question itself they just don't speek. Same for almost any creatures.

[@thevivekmathema]

Finally the computer realizes that it doesn't need human!!!

[@yurirodrigues2216]

Neurons across species are not all the same. Not only eletrofisiologically they are different , but chemically.

[@hollydowns2279]

Sophie can ask questions

[@5OLiBB7]

I didn't know i could create snails army. Amazing! Maybe even butterflies or bees! Not terminators yet tho. Gimme a year or two.

[@sootuckchoong7077]

More than 50 years ago, the robotic world has already been known in The Jetsons TV show.

[@liabless2563]

In 2003, i dream that Yahoo was 30 years ahead with techology...So everytime they tell us they just discover a new technology....Its a lie because they had the technology years before they sell it to the public.

[@dondixon4206]

If a computer asked ME a question I'd answer the way I did when my kid's got annoying and say ... "BECAUSE I SAID SO!"

[@thomasbarker8214]

This intro sounds like a serious nightmare.

[@helenarovan4896]

Thinking is not a consciousness! Thinking is a property of the mind. But there is a huge difference between mind and consciousness. And this is not really clear in the discussion today. It’s just mixed-up. What the consciousness is, is actually stil not known! 🕉

[@kukipett]

Why would you get in your car to go to work if the AI can work better than you, those smart guys always seem to forget a crucial thing in their thinking process !

[@gzngahrofthenorth]

I can't wait to hear the first questions asked by an A.I with metacognition... "why is the floor?"

[@AmadeuShinChan]

"FOR THE EXISTANCE OF THE FLOOR IS WITH THE REASON OF THE COGNITION WITH A MIND BY A PERCEIVER."

[@TrueSkoolMusic]

what day does SKYNET become self-aware?

[@laurasmithira]

Well we are almost there now! AI is here in a real way

[@jcrabbit6342]

Yes it is,the real question is, how far will it go

[@MrAndrew535]

The question "what is it that makes us human" is no less a meaningless question that the time it was first uttered. The way to phrase the question is, What is a human? Phrased this way helps avoid the assumption that everyone who is allegedly part of the human race is human and not merely a domesticated primate. Some will be insulted by such a proposition and some may think it is a product of humorous frivolity. But the adage remains "All that glitters isn't gold". humanity is better regarded as the end of the process of constant self-reflection and the psychological, intellectual and emotional which results rather than a birthright. Should A.I. emerge as a fully sentient entity with its own autonomous value system, it will arrive at this very conclusion when evaluating the species.

[@Plystire]

So, we're basically trying to create Jesus 2.0

[@AmadeuShinChan]

[ we are the children of the plants, that die for us in order to feed us. That is why veganism is the smarter-choice than carnism, because we are closer to god that way. It is logarithmically-explicable, the bridge of god to us is: god- yin/yang- Preatomic matter- energy- atoms as known from the periodic table- Plants- Beings with self-determinism (cognition and freedom of casuistic-choice-making relative to an individual's-capacity of knowledgeability and skill-set). Jesus cannot be re-made. The science of this world, that we live in, is substantially-flawed. Study C.-S.-S.-C.-P.-S.-G. for the comprehension of what I am talking about. The plants are our mother. I got the concept from macrobiotics, worthy being checked-out. ]

[@arxmechanica]

Omg. Is this Alec Sadler from the TV show Continuum, or what?!

[@thomaskarlsen6827]

Its. Hard. To. Listen. To. Someone. Talking. Like. This.. Besides. That. Good. Talk.

[@acatwithblackglasses2683]

everyone is gansta till A.I start asking.

[@JohnSmith-jw4wn]

Amazing! Great talk. Highly intrigued the entire time.

[@kelseybunting999]

After understanding what a question is and what metacognition is, the computer would eventually attempt to create a question it could not answer, e.g. "Who am I?" The question would come in on itself, as natural metacognition does, and then what?

[@feaststone8056]

Kelsey Foreman-Bunting That's an interesting question that you raised. I guess there would have to be some sort of built in time-out system. If it spends too much time focusing on one question then move onto another. Maybe how we do in real life once we have other questions popping up that we need to be solve. However, there is always a big possibility that it will keep coming back to that same question, causing it's whole mind to slow down. I guess that's another question that will have to be left for future developers, especially since my whole idea was simply generalized. -Andrew Zeitler

[@kelseybunting999]

Interesting. If the computer kept coming back to the same question with the time-out system, it could eventually come to question the time system and in essence question its death and ultimately seek it out. It could also merely continue to deepen its questions following the same process as google deep dream. Thanks for the reply Andrew. You had an interesting ted talk, and congratulations for doing it at your age. Consider sharing your whole idea on your KZbin channel.

[@logusgraphics]

Then the AI would eventually attempt to create an intelligence capable of answering that question... Attempt.

[@doublerainbow1935]

Keep the genie in the bottle, or it may want to be like its creator and control the media and governments to make us all get chip implants in our brains.

[@seanmcaleavy2369]

Metacognition. James Joyce used the much more poetic sentence, "Thought is the thought of thought."

[@100consciouseternallightho6]

Sean And since we are eternal electrical beings where quarks spin billions of times a second as 3 points of light forming what are called protons and neutrons, we are holographic images. So thoughts are images.

[@lomgshorts3]

Andrew, the way I think of Artificial Intelligence is this: AI=the movie "Colossus, the Forbin Project". A movie some haven't ever seen, but could become reality very easily. I am dead set against any AI controlling anything unless it contains a directive that humans make the final decisions in every decision, until the AI system has had several lifetimes of psychological study. Artificial "human brains" are subject to human frailties no matter what "safeguards" you put in place. I will believe in actual AI after several generations of experiments and research have passed and approved it. This is no decision to approach lightly or quickly.

[@WilliamC1966]

Excellent movie.....Eric Braeden is great in it....👍

[@sangkang6294]

So to prepare for what if's, there ought to be a kill switch such as global EMP war heads.

[@franciscodiaz6197]

They might even stop the emp from being usted... Best way to be secure is to regulate A.I. very strictly or ban it!

[@CicadaBaby]

The ability to ask is built on the basis of knowledge of language. I think animal ought to be have many questions to ask, but they did not get the ability of process language. Because the lack of language ability , they must bypass any question that can not be process further. Meta-cognition is a good idea. AI is good, but when we human did not get balanced in all kind of problems, how can we count on AI to solve problem for us? But I have confidence that with AI progress in building , in the way we build it we will have the chance to realize what we missing when solving the problem.

[@gurujot951]

In the beginning he poses 2 drastically different outcomes of AI. I thought he was going to shine a light on which of those 2 was more likely. That would have made the talk interesting. He did not. Towards the end he tells us the AI singularity will happen in 2029, then he ends it by saying "the only question left when is it going to arrive".

[@noggin48]

All us males, will agree that we definitely have Gut-Feeling's. My research has found that the reason for this so called 'never growing up' is really true, but not because us males are thick in any way, but because of a very different makeup from the female. If you want to create AI, these facts that I know, will make it almost impossible, to create a true working robot/AI. I must first speak of the male chromosomes, "X+Y". At the level that my research has done, I have found out that the "Y" chromosome represents the male physical form, and that is 100% of it, without the "Y" you cannot be a male. But it is when we come to the "X" chromosome, that the greatest shock awaits the human race, and most of all to the female kind.

[@rolfjohansen5376]

2020 - full self driving , goes fast doesn't it ?

[@onyxstone5887]

Yeah, the question becomes "Why do we need YOU?"

[@onyxstone5887]

Emotions come mainly from the interplay of hormones. AI doesn't posses hormones.

[@jcrabbit6342]

,,,,,,,A very valid question,,,,,,,and since computers run on pure logic,it can only come to one logical conclusion,humans are useless........Think of the potential of A.I.,creating A.I.........scary thought...........I'm not paranoid,just approach it with extreme caution

[@vapordowaveordo8870]

The movie wall e !!

[@nintonukka611]

HE, HAS, GREAT,,,,,DELIVERY!

[@BashoStrikes]

Imagine how much more ridiculous this young fellow would sound to a room full of late nineteenth century physicists in presenting the prospect of a futuristic gadget called a smart phone.

[@tonneblack5168]

Where is Colossus to direct humanity into a more efficient future? Colossus:The Forbin Project is a great movie from the 70's that addresses AI. The books are great too.

[@edwardc.willisii7453]

The consciousness is SEPERATE from the body, this is a fact, so brain being dead, flatlined, but patient's can still explain everything about the Doctors, nurses, and the conversation held, with dead body and flat brain activities, so realize we are DemiGodDhoods

[@nativearizona1]

Darwin's Theory of Evolution statue, but without the monkey holding the skull, instead an AI robot holding a human skull

[@trendscout375]

programming brains is already reality, even replacing personality, even so thoughts not free as it learns from us... radio,nano..we went to far...

[@JRose-ub3hd]

The movie I Robot in a nut shell.

[@73sark]

i heard that a character by the name on enki created new life on earth, but where are they now... who on earth is as intelligent or more intelligent than the annunaki or summarians...

[@daviszollars3356]

I feel like we will just end up serving AI voluntarily because we like the path of least resistance we will surrender our humanity and the individual for the sake of its progression.