The A.I. Dilemma - March 9, 2023

Name: The A.I. Dilemma - March 9, 2023
Uploaded: 2023-04-05T19:04:35Z
Duration: 1 h 7 min 31 s
Channel: Center for Humane Technology
Description: Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin discuss the catastrophic societal risks posed by rapid, unregulated deployment of large language models.

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Presented by Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin, co-founders of the Center for Humane Technology
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Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin discuss the catastrophic societal risks posed by rapid, unregulated deployment of large language models.

Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin discuss how existing A.I. capabilities already pose catastrophic risks to a functional society, how A.I. companies are caught in a race to deploy as quickly as possible without adequate safety measures, and what it would mean to upgrade our institutions to a post-A.I. world. This presentation is from a private gathering in San Francisco on March 9th, 2023 with leading technologists and decision-makers with the ability to influence the future of large-language model A.I.s. This presentation was given before the launch of GPT-4. We encourage viewers to consider calling their political representatives to advocate for holding hearings on AI risk and creating adequate guardrails. For the podcast version, please visit: humanetech.com/podcast/the-ai-dilemma ------ Citations: 2022 Expert Survey on Progress in AI: aiimpacts.org/2022-expert-survey-on-progress-in-ai/ Seeing Beyond the Brain: Conditional Diffusion Model with Sparse Masked Modeling for Vision Decoding: arxiv.org/abs/2211.06956 High-resolution image reconstruction with latent diffusion models from human brain activity: biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.11.18.517004v3 Semantic reconstruction of continuous language from non-invasive brain recordings: biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.09.29.509744v1 Sit Up Straight: Wi-Fi Signals Can Be Used to Detect Your Body Position: pcmag.com/news/sit-up-straight-wi-fi-signals-can-be-used-to-… They thought loved ones were calling for help. It was an AI scam: washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/03/05/ai-voice-scam/ Theory of Mind Emerges in Artificial Intelligence: sciencetimes.com/articles/42488/20230220/theory-mind-emerges… Emergent Abilities of Large Language Models: arxiv.org/abs/2206.07682 Is GPT-3 all you need for low-data discovery in chemistry? chemrxiv.org/engage/chemrxiv/article-details/63eb5a669da0bc6… Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2210.11610 Forecasting: AI solving competition-level mathematics with 80%+ accuracy: bounded-regret.ghost.io/ai-forecasting ChatGPT reaching 100M users compared with other major tech companies: twitter.com/kylelf_/status/1623679176246185985 Snap: washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/03/14/snapchat-myai/ Percent of large-scale AI results coming from academia: twitter.com/johnjnay/status/1618692328524496897?lang=en How Satya Nadella describes the pace at which the company is releasing AI: nytimes.com/2023/02/23/opinion/microsoft-bing-ai-ethics.html The Day After film: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_After China’s view on chatbots: foreignpolicy.com/2023/03/03/china-censors-chatbots-artifici… Facebook’s LLM leaks online: vice.com/en/article/xgwqgw/facebooks-powerful-large-l

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On “Ask HN: How do you cope with the existential dread of AGI?”

Have you watched this video? link to this video (You don't have to, of course. An hour-long video recommended by a stranger on the internet is a big ask) There's a ton of evidence that this is moving way faster than people think. I don't think there's anything particularly special about human intelligence. And time and time again, we've been able to copy things that nature does and make them way more powerful, like planes vs birds. It does the same thing, but in a completely different way. It would be surprising if we couldn't do it with brains. I feel like a lot of people are not going to admit that we have already created AGI until we literally have an unstoppable AI that has taken over everything. I…