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Deadly Truth of General AI? - Computerphile

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Rob Miles explains why a superintelligent AI might pose existential risks to humanity using the classic stamp collector thought experiment.

The danger of assuming general artificial intelligence will be the same as human intelligence. Rob Miles explains with a simple example: The deadly stamp collector. The Problem with JPEG: youtu.be/yBX8GFqt6GA Apple's $200,000 Computer: youtu.be/PccvZRTUhbI Rabbits, Faces & Hyperspaces: youtu.be/q6iqI2GIllI Thanks to Nottingham Hackspace for the location. facebook.com/computerphile twitter.com/computer_phile This video was filmed and edited by Sean Riley. Computer Science at the University of Nottingham: bit.ly/nottscomputer Computerphile is a sister project to Brady Haran's Numberphile. More at bradyharan.com

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What people say. Frequently recommended as an accessible and clear introduction to the core concepts of AI safety and alignment.

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On “Why AlphaGo Is Such a Big Deal”

> exponential leap forward A recent(-ish) Computerphile video has a good overview of the AI-self-improvement problem. link I recommend watching the previous video first, which introduces the problem of strong-AI rapidly finding solutions (especially with poorly-specified questions) that may not be in humanity's best interest. link to this video Before anybody jumps to overly-sensational conclusions, note that the last video in that series, Rob Miles explains how exponential self-improvement is an extreme point in the space of possible AI development. We don't know how to predict discoveries1, so we need more research into AI, so we can hopefully make something that isn't exponentially growing beyon…
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On “Perhaps It Is a Bad Thing That the Leading AI Companies Cannot Control Their AIs”

There's a great Computerphile video from 2015 that introduced me to the idea of AI safety awhile ago. It seems like some good context to this article: link to this video
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On “Stability AI Launches the First of Its StableLM Suite of Language Models”

But the concerns about AI taking over the world are valid and important; even if they sound silly at first, there is some very solid reasoning behind it. They’re big matrices, yes, but they’re Turing-complete which means they can theoretically do any computational task See link to this video for a really interesting video on why a theoretical superintelligent AI would be dangerous, and when you factor in that these models could self-improve and approach that level of intelligence it gets worrying…
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On “GitHub Copilot emits GPL code”

"those non-problems" Why is that a non-problem? It's a really important concern that we need to take more seriously I pasted this from another comment I wrote but: The concerns about AI taking over the world are valid and important; even if they sound silly at first, there is some very solid reasoning behind it. See link to this video for a really interesting video on why a theoretical superintelligent AI would be dangerous, and when you factor in that these models could self-improve and approach that level of intelligence it gets worrying…
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On “Artificial intelligence is changing every aspect of war”

…intelligence than a human one. AI does not think like humans, have human values, or care about what humans care about, that might make them extremely unpredictable and dangerous. There will be no time for iterative development, or learning from our mistakes, a sufficiently advanced AI knows we would try to stop it, and make sure that we never can. link to this video…
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On “Moore's Law for Everything”

I don’t see the world this piece presents panning out. Either we make general intelligence (which then scales almost instantly to be way, way smarter than any human ever and then accidentally kills us 1) or we don’t and humans still have a role to play in the workforce. 1 link to this video
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On “Bitcoin Block 840000”

That's an issue with the concept of a "black budget", not the payment mechanism. The government corruption bitcoin stops is really bank corruption, but the central banks (including the fed) work hand in hand with the governments (control them in fact), so it's a kind of joint effort. The corruption works like this: When the Fed was formed in the early 20th century, it came to an agreement with the government to be able to print off unlimited amounts of money, providing it was in the form of loans and under the agreement that it would destroy the money when the loans were repaid. All under the Keynesian guise of "elasticity of money". The fly in the ointment is that the banks can charge inter…
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