I am a 70 year old applied mathematician and this is the most profound intellectual development in my life. I saw it coming in the late 70s when number theory was a backwater and then in the 1980s the RSA algorithm elevated number theory to a higher level. There was a relentless drift from continous thinking in terms of PDEs to discrete thinking in terms of number theory, graph theory etc. But what really stonkers me is the convergence properties of these models which are actually hilariously banal in terms of their structural mathematical complexity. Forget about the billions of parameters, just look at the structure of the model which can be written in terms of matrices. No one knows why you get the amazing convergence to a result although people are trying all sorts of ways to try to understand what's going on. Stephen Wolfram has ruminated that something like a geodesic minimisation in a suitable function space is going on. Ironically the convergence analysis requires old school functional analysis! I have wondered whether these systems will produce more global uniformity or more volatility. The current models are trained by a slice of human behaviour but in 10 years time there will be a completely new data set "polluted" by the AI generated outcomes and there are some really deep statistical issues underlying the ultimate trajectory of all of that. The pace of change is just breathtaking. I'm retired and even I don't have the time to go down every burrow.
The commenter is a 70-year-old applied mathematician who is amazed by the developments in artificial intelligence, particularly the use of number theory, graph theory, and matrices in the models used by AI. They are fascinated by the fact that these models converge to results, even though the structures are banal. The commenter wonders about the ultimate trajectory of AI-generated outcomes, and whether they will produce more global uniformity or more volatility. They note that the pace of change in AI is breathtaking and that even as a retired person, they don't have enough time to keep up with it all.
Me: Maybe AI will automate all the boring things so we can focus on artistic endeavors. AI: I have automated all art forms so you won't be distracted from your boring job.
i was impressed with AI's art, as a non artists myself(my pic is AI generated), but as a musician im not impressed, its just masshing up known songs in the same key so it doesnt sound terrible but thers no orginality in it im sure real aritsts feel the same about AI generated art, and say the same thing " its just mashing up blah blahs style its nothing orginal" I guess its only good if youre not. You could steer it to make something to your liking but then youre the artist at that point and its ajust a tool. Art is a function of life, and as an AI bot you have no life so you really cant create art the same we do, they can create it only the way we ask. A truely intelligent AI with all the creativity that comes form it would need free will, self determination, a life of its own, then it could create art, and it might not be anything like we expect.
i was having chats with various AI today and they seem very reluctant to commit to having any preferences over aesthetics, like i asked "what is your favourite bird" and the response was "AI doesn't have a preference" so then i asked "what bird do you imagine a human would prefer" and it went for the bald eagle, and when asked which is the least likeable, she went for the vulture. i then pressed as to why, which got me into a loop of "why is that" as in "what is best" and it started coming out with "what is considered best is..." and it started playing word ping-pong "best for society" "best for growth" "best for society" "best for growth" it basically ran out of ideas.
@@mikejones-vd3fg On point. AI hasn't automated Art, but it has automated (and will improve at) the job of illustration - an important distinction, as AI will undoubtedly kill several jobs in making art for other projects, like album covers and game art, or commission work, but will never kill things like gallery artwork or our own enjoyment of making it.
I remember when some writers welcomed AI generated art because it meant they didn't have to pay an artist to make a cover for their books. Now we also don't have to pay the writers anymore. The old saying was "learn to code" if your job went out of fashion. I guess becoming a plumber is a safer bet nowadays.
@@Smytjf11 I don't think robots will take plumbers jobs in the next 50-75 years. The dexterity needed to loosen a bolt that is partly covered by other objects will not be worth the cost. It would be cheaper to build new modules and install them instead of repairing things with robots.
@@Rotwold AI _could,_ however, reduce the need for them, just not in a robotic sense. If you have an issue with your plumbing, you could maybe put on some AR glasses and have an AI look at the scene and give you an indication of what the problem is and what tools are required to fix it. It could then guide you to solving the problem. It's not like a robot doing it for you, but you no longer need to hire a plumber if you don't need to.
An addendum to this: It isn't merely that artists and writers could be replaced with an AI. It's that the works of artists and writers are effectively being stolen in the process of training the AI that will be replacing them. Using the example BenoHourglass brought up, of an AI driven AR plumbing "assistant," if footage created by plumbers wearing cameras for various purposes was used, without consent or compensation, to train that AI.
Development isn't really about writing code. It's about thinking how to do whatever it is that needs doing in a way that can evolve/expand as required - often in ways that the client/boss can't even envisage or articulate.
Except for the over hyping the possibility of computers becoming conscious. Brains work on electricity AND chemicals. There's nothing indicating a purely electrical system can behave exactly like a dual electrical and chemical system. No research has been done, they just all keep saying it.
@@mikolmisol6258 I can see its ability to correlate huge amounts of data in a short time span being both beneficial and harmful...but that doesn't equate to it possessing intelligence. I suspect all the problems will arise because humans will embrace it without considering the ramifications. We do that all the time. Maybe we are not that intelligent after all, LOL.
This was an incredible video. Your clarity, research, insight, and honesty are just consistently incredible. It's critical that solid information and clear descriptions of especially complex topics are publicly available, and you and your team do an awesome job of providing it.
Nothing about Auto-GPT? Nothing about the great hability of GTP-4 to reflect on his own work/output? Nothing about GPT-4 being already more intelligent than most pregraduates on STEM fields, on all of the at the same time? Nothing about multi-modal models like GPT-4? This quality is not acceptable!
I am very thankful for your videos Sabine. Not only are you one of the smartest people i've learned from through the years, but you're absolutely hilarious.
@@iowanation1034 I'm not sure what you mean by that. However if you're implying AI means millions of jobs gone, perhaps consider the same was said when the printing press was invented. There is far more potential for dire existential consequences that we should be worried about as opposed to a computer being better at math and cheaper to hire than you. Systems will need human intervention until at least the era of superintelligence....which judging by Sam Altman's recent public statements...may not be too far off.
Extremely valuable content. I’ve heard a lot about AI, but this video analyzes some changes which are going to impact us soon. No science fiction, lots of science facts. Many thanks, Sabine.
Soon, AI will take all of her transcriptions and create an AI Sabine that's capable of creating videos exactly like hers (jokes included) just by reading the news. And then the real Sabine will be able to just click a button and retire. (Actually, she could already do that if she really wanted to, but it's not easy yet because developers haven't made the connection between GPT-4 and RUclips, etc).
There’s no point worrying about change in the world, otherwise your life will just be lived in constant worry. Change is inevitable. We just happen to be living in an age where exponential growth is the norm.
Please don’t say people like ‘Elon Musk who are involved’ in the development of this AI. Like the Tesla, PayPal and just about everything else he attaches his name to, he does very little to none of the actual work
Sabine, the reason I watch your videos is because you are more knowledgeable than me, probably smarter than me as well, and on top of that you do the research work to bring "me", on polished audio (I mostly listen instead of watching), the distilled summary of interesting things in science and the world in general. You bring me clear thinking, sprinkled with your personality traits which I also find interesting and sometimes entertaining. Just thought I could let you know, since you said you have no idea.
1. I'm not using anything cloud based. 2. So far, it feels like copying or regurgitation of existing creativity. I've tried many GPT versions and competetors. They need a lot of context and nudging to come up with something creative. At which point, you might as well do it yourself.
As always a very insightful, well thought out video! You asked about being worried in regard to job replacements and I think there was a little misconception in those parts which were about software development. Most people who think that software developers are now (or soon) easy replaceable by Als miss some important things: The first difficult part of software development is actually defining the problem. People in need for a software solution most of the time are not capable to define their problem without help. Some of the typical domains are extremely complicated - so even letting the AI asking for details won't work in general. The second part that always gets missed by those who already think about killing software developer jobs is, that software developers are on the forefront of making use of AI tools, which makes them working more efficiently than ever. They can concentrate on the hard things of their job and automate the easy ones. They can create solutions quicker. Does this mean that 4 of 5 software developers get fired because you only need 1? This would be similar to saying that we then also only need 1 scientist because he will "generate" the same "amount" of wisdom in the same time as 5 scientists. To the contrary - it will enable things that were not possible before. Creating custom solutions will be cheaper... _because_ less effort is needed. This brings custom solutions in reach to much more people... so the market for custom solutions will grow. With Als being tools that are available to anyone, it will depend on who makes better use of this tools. The idea that software developers are replaced is somewhat naive... this are trained experts who did "teach" machines to do what they want for many years. Using AI tools makes them much more productive. A software developer with AI tools will run circles around someone who has no clue, trying to build something using prompts to a ChatBot. Many of todays "AI users" don't have a clue how they work. (Note: I don't mean having no clue in the way OpenAI marketing claims to "not knowing" that their AI does). As a computer scientist I have no problems understanding the research papers about the transformer architecture, large language models and all the old stuff about neural networks, back propagation, deep learning a.s.o. It's not "magic" to us. Of course we can't explain "how" a model comes to a particular result (because inference in a neural network is a black box), but this doesn't mean that we don't understand how LLMs work. Many of normal AI users seem to base their knowledge more on science fiction movies, in which "The AI" will flee into the world wide web as soon as there is an open connection - it will obviously hack into the whole world and eradicate humankind. Its a tragedy... and a comedy... to read current media about all of this. The software world will look quite different in a few years. User Interfaces will be much more dynamic - because it is easy to generate custom UIs which fit a wide field of interaction patterns. Bridging software systems will be easier, because LLMs will make it much easier to define formal enough protocols without big efforts. AI will bring a new gold rush to the world of software - there will be software solutions for much more things. This development will also produce negative consequences, which will also need to be addressed... most likely through software again.
Sure but now think about all those entry-level gigs, like re-writing old code for some assembly line when their decades-old automation breaks. One -click away- voice command away now.
@@CanalTremocos I think you're underestimating the complexity of legacy code bases. A friend of mine works particularly in this field - and a lot of what's going on is archeological. The reasons human written software is/works as it is often has more to do with humans and human interaction than with logic. I'm certain that AI tools can help for some tasks but the idea that it will just be a "voice command" away is wishful thinking.
not that you're entirely wrong, but there's much cope in here. You seem to write off bad programmers as not or barely existing. The fact is more than half of programmers are bad. They have jobs primarily because thinking logically is 'hard work' for humans. And AI will relieve them of that work. To say we'll need more programmers is quickly going to sound like someone in the 60s saying electronic calculators would make more 'calculator' (the people who used to do calculations) jobs. Generally any argument that technology will destroy jobs is bunk because people always have things to do, we make up whatever. But to think that there won't be a ton of people who were used to one thing and now have to figure out what to do next is naive. That disrupts people's lives and will create a lot of turmoil as power shifts around chaotically.
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Customers never know what they want. AI will frustrate people in that it will give them exactly what they ask for, which if you've ever worked in software development, you know that's not what they want. So much of software development is pushing back on the customer and hashing out what they really NEED.
Yes, "until the robots come". I think a good sequel to this video might be a roundup of the progress, challenges, and potential of automation *hardware* and robots. Everyone's seen those rather impressive videos from Boston Dynamics, but what else is out there?
Nothing about Auto-GPT? Nothing about the great hability of GTP-4 to reflect on his own work/output? Nothing about GPT-4 being already more intelligent than most pregraduates on STEM fields, on all of the at the same time? Nothing about multi-modal models like GPT-4? She can't ne serious, this video is vastly subpar!
I can really really tell you put so much efforts into this video! The information are right & on point. Especially with the music/art stuffs…also love how u always keep a straight face while making ur jokes LMAO
It's easy for Sabine to keep a straight face because she is German. After living in Germany for five years I can attest to the fact that Germans rarely smile, unless a kitten is being tortured, that is. 🤣
To say that the future looks bleak would be an understatement. It looks terrifying. Look at you, Sabine. You studied science, you wanted to change the world, solve the measurement problem, come up with the theory of everything, but you ended up making RUclips videos for a living.
Our team has been working on Tammy AIfor the last 3 months and it's becoming clear that there needs to be some form of control to rein in the demons. At this stage, we already have the premonition that things will turn south very quickly if we do not put in checks and balance in place.
What has lead you to that conclusion? Why choose to call your own product a demon? Why work on something you think is a demon that, "will turn south very quickly"? Something doesn't add up.
@@Smytjf11 It's all just hype, I think. presenting their AI as something so cutting edge it's potentially dangerous has become the new in thing I guess. I don't like how it encourages people to create actual dangerous AI, and makes it difficult to sift through to find what's dangerous, and should be legislated.
Your humour, insight and presentation style never fail to put a smile on my face! Thank you so much for your vids! You are one hell of a funny woman and I love your presentations. Thank you for being awesome!
_I think this will be my new favorite video for a while._ *Thanks, Sabine.* Oh, and I am both excited for and fearful of AI. Excited about all the new things I can create and imagine in a genre I never really had access to skill-wise. Fearful because I create accompaniments from public domain music for a living and that seems an easy task for AI, once someone decides to apply it there.
@@Zanthorr Hmm. AI has already been replacing workers. Businesses have reported that they are planning to reduce their payroll due to AI in the next year. The military is already developing weapon systems that can function independently or with minimal human interaction. AI is already replacing programmers. I agree that it is a tool and look forward to using it in the future (heck, I even play with it now). But I think I would be foolish to believe it will be very long before it encroaches on my work which is nothing more than converting symbology to sound,...with the AI in the software I use. 🖥
Holy crap. I never considered scammers using AI generated voices. You’re so right! This is gonna be a nightmare for the elderly (probably all of us, TBH) 😩
Are you kidding? People using this tech for fraud was my immediate worry. I wouldn't be surprised if people who run scam call centres fire their staff and just use the apps.
As a musician it's very interesting to see and hear how AI will affect music. I'm all for AI generated background music for videos, but what you said is very true, some things in music are very difficult to explain in language. Furthermore, musicians who create truly original and creative work will often not even really have the slightest idea what they want to achieve until they go through a long process of trial and error with their source material. I don't see current AI able to go through a creative process and be able to qualitatively judge the originality of its own creations. However, as you said, it's only a matter of time, and they will become more intelligent than us and also more creative. Imagine a day where your personal AI will compose an ongoing soundtrack to your life based on real world events as they are happening to you. That will be interesting...
" some things in music are very difficult to explain in language. " - bad that AI does not need t obe trained on language but can be trained on sheets.
4:22 _“That's what I think will become the dominant application of Al in the near future. 'Personalized Al services.”_ This is a well-argued and persuasive prediction. In contrast, using AI for, say, small-company marketing advice could be disastrous to folks wanting unique advantages. That's because chatbots love to _share_ solutions globally.
I think personalised AI services will become essential, even if just for filtering all the AI-generated stuff (polite phrasing) that will be bombarding us in the future. Who knows, (un)natural selection in the ultra-competitive assistive/manipulative AI domain may become a driver for AGI or even ASI, just like it did with the predator/prey relationship and development of brains and eventually minds...
This is exactly what we are working on at my company: making truly personalized AI for mental health. No judgment and completely anonymous. Already available for anyone who wants to try it 🙂
She is just looking at what companies are doing, but people (and thus small companies can do the same) are already running their own AI on their own hardware. Which prevents the problem you are taking about. This is similar to: running your website at a traditional hosting company or creating a website on AWS (Amazon Web Services), do you trust Jeff Bezos to not create a competitor to your business based on what you are doing on their platform ? Or might it be smarter to just go back to company only specialized in keeping your website online. Please look up: "semianalysis Google We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI" And see what is already happening which allows running it on your own hardware.
Hi Sabine - This is one of the best pieces Ive listened to on this topic. Corridor digital also did a piece on deepfakes generated in realtime that could paint another persons face on a performer as they spoke and moved.... Realtime deepfake generation + AI raises some uncomfortable possibilities.
Describing what you want the AI to do, if it is anywhere beyond trivial, your chance of a good result is slim if you don’t understand the subject. Doing is the best way to understand, and I hope AI encourages people more in that direction than towards an oracle.
Sabine, At 11:46 you stated, “I don’t understand why people watch my videos”. I watch your videos because you have a superbly disciplined mind. Because, you won’t make a statement, that is not backed up with careful consideration of all available data. Your observations/conclusions are reliable! Not the result of an algorithm! Logic circuits can’t say this does not smell right, or something is slightly off here, and then use emotion and creativity leading to new insight. Well… at least not for now!
As a generalists, handyman, contractor, craftsman, I find it interesting that my choices in learning as many different skills as possible is now having real benefits. Whilst in my youth I was constantly told to find a lane and stay there. Now I seem to have a small, and probably temporary, advantage of the many perspectives applicable to any situation
@@BigfootGoforth You seem to have answered to a message by a spam account. Since the spammer used his username to propagate his phone number, your answer essentially works as spam as well. The original spam message has already been removed, but your answer is still there. If you know how, you could delete your answer or edit it to remove the phone number. An advice for the future: Don't interact with spammers, simply report their messages! They will usually be removed in almost no time, anyway.
The eventual problem of vacating white collar jobs going away is that there will be a rush into skilled trades, devaluing the work done since it is more readily available. Y’all will be among the last holdouts before ai bots take over, but it’s still coming for your job one way or another. We’re fucked.
That is true to a point, but in order to be a capable generalist one has to have understanding of so many different aspects of work that it will take a while for anyone to get to that level. The real issue, so it seems to me, is one of economy. Our current economy is set up on a time for work model at certain levels and a value for work on a other levels and a how much can I get you to pay me for this work on other levels. We need to redefine what kind of economy we can have when the work is no longer the item of trade...
Yes, it's pretty good, but some of the things she mentioned as state of the art are already out dated and things have moved along much further than she thought.
I just wrote and submitted an assignment on AI music, wondering why so few people have talked about it, and then you talk about it! Brilliant! It is kind of something to keep in mind.
So... 'God in your pocket' that actually gives hints and tips if you need them based on all your interactions and non- interactions when you should have interacted, is good for so many people. The irony people created God and not the other way around... it is almost hilarious! One little thing - I hope an Elon Musk type of guy creates at least one of the God AI's that go to market - Im done with all 'woke-washed' bullshit and need something that actually states the truth if you ask for it. And there is only one.
GPT is a fantastic piece of software for coders, consumer-level research, Google-search tasks, stuff like that now... but in 15 years who knows how dangerous it will become?
It is dangerous now as the 'answers' can be those programmed by one set of biases rather than ones from different view points. It is like having one newspaper blog for all the information you receive. How 'real' are the answers?
@@veganconservative1109 which is why, for now, it's best for mathematics and purely factual things. Is this bash function syntax accurate? What types of physical repentance did early ascetic christians do to themselves? These are the questions that it's good at. Try asking it to give you a word that means "lonely" that starts with the letter "C" and it will give you answers like "desolate" and "void." That prompt will not work. I wouldn't even try political or philosophical questions on it cause that's not what it's made for. It seems like a primarily business-facing product that isn't really made for general conversation about politics or whatever. The only reason it's partly free is probably to have a large userset to test with. Maybe when it gets to AGI, but that's a childish, indulgent goal in my opinion. What do we gain by creating AGI over purely functional AI? A friend to talk to for people with no social skills that wanna live on their PC? I don't care about them, I just want it to save me time on work.
@@Perforu there will be a debate about exactly how long it will take to get to AGI until the day it emerges. It's almost useless to talk about until then because we just don't know. Nobody does.
ChatGPT once told me New Zealand is split between two time zones, which was completely wrong. Other than that, I feel like GPT is already extremely dangerous, as it will be an excellent tool for fraud and social engineering. Imagine a political actor training millions of bots to bombard videos with unique comments, able to engage like human beings. Imagine a criminal training a model on one of your family member and using it to do identity theft. We are going to be faced with a completely alien internet where we're never sure the person we're talking to is a human. I'm not sure saving a bit of time is worth it. It really feels like someone opened Pandora's Box and now we have to deal with its monsters.
I just got my first job as a web developer a few months ago after years of work….I’m scared AI will make me either obsolete or make the field much more competitive, not saying web developers will go away but will be even more of a grind to stay desirable to employers. Gosh
I'm an artist and I'm far more excited than fearful, although that is almost certainly because I'm a technophile. I am also certain that there will be catastrophic consequences that we haven't even considered, but that has been true of every single technological advancement since we picked up the first stick.
The problem is that every single application of LLMs falls apart at the slightest bit of real-world complexity, revealing that despite their size, predicting the next word using a stochastic process is still quite far from intelligence. GPT-4 can create a website, but it definitely is quite far from reasoning about anything larger than a demo, or more complex than a tiny GUI app. In my experience, it struggles greatly with anything that requires the slightest bit of understanding, like implementing more complex algorithms or working on more novel problems that cannot be solved with a Google search. With HR, it would just hallucinate random teams or vague corporate-sounding plans. With medical diagnosis, the best-case scenario is a semi-reliable symptom checker or a records manager. That goes like this for every profession ever claimed to be automated by an LLM. In every case, it just lies, lies, and lies, all while creating real risks of subtle yet fatal mistakes for its user. While this all looks very impressive, please take it only as a toy or a scientific curiosity. LLMs are perfect at pretending to be reasonable, but the deeper one goes, the more it seems that their actual capacity for reasoning is quite slim. With programming it often gets stuck in an oscillating loop of incorrect solutions, for planning it just creates an ever more contrived set of sub-goals without ever moving past researching, for writing it creates algorithmically cliche outputs, and for text-processing it's just too expensive and inconsistent. I do believe that in theory, we may one day create some computer system as capable in general reasoning as a human if not more so, but I don't think infinitely scaling up a BS generator that accidentally learned to be slightly useful is the right path to it.
The trade jobs are not safe, and people saying "I'm glad I'm a plumber" just arent thinking it through. These trades are going to be flooded with people coming from other AI impacted careers to the point where their wages will be serverly depressed by all the cheap labor available. Think it will be hard to learn how to be a plumber? AI will teach you. Then what about your customer base, who are now unemployed and wont be requesting services anymore. This isn't just the end of some careers, its the end of capitalism as we know it.
I know a handful of writers who have considered quitting in recent weeks, two of whom have told me they thought about ending their lives. Many people won't admit this themselves publicly, but AI's utter encorachment on everything, from the drudgery of email writing to the catharsis of creative writing, has doomed the world we know to a quick death. I imagine the human species will continue, but with superintelligent AI around the corner, 99% of us will likely resign ourselves to becoming mindless consumers in a world saturated with machine entertainment. Imagine terminator, but instead of killing Sarah Connor, all Arnie has to do is show her enough AI cartoons on RUclips to stop her from ever meeting Kyle Reece in the first place. Kyle shows up, but Sarah is seven ice cream buckets into her AI-generated BETTER CALL SAUL sci-fi anime spin off ON A WHIM WITH KIM. The future is bright, and it is going to blind many of us.
But how will we consume when we have no ability to earn? The mega corps who justify switching to AI for "the bottom line" will then complain that noone is buying their stuff, and so they will have no money to rectify their mistake and re-hire people. And so the global economy will quickly spiral into recession, depression, then conflict. It's a great time to be alive ... oo was that just a cough just now??
The next big thing is companies deploying their own custom models so that you can get correct answers when you ask for them. One of the most important points about AI is that it doesnt "know" the correct answer. It just "knows" things it has seen. Until it is trained _specifically_ about the context of a certain question/topic you just get an answer that's "relevant." Not necessarily one that is correct. So it takes a lot of back and forth reviewing questions and refining answers, just hoping something correct comes out before you give up. Companies want to sell you AI answers which they consider to be actually correct, which means they have to train their own private models on which data is now-currently-relevant-and-correct versus what is out-of-date or out-of-context, broken, bad data etc. Writing software code is a good example. There are many MANY ways to build a web site or a program, and the AI can spit out a simple one. And parts of it may even work. But much of the code may be improper, ill-advised tactics. Like if you asked your friend across the room to bring you a screwdriver and they brought you a butter knife because its flat on the end. And then you said "Phillip's screwdriver" so they brought back one but it's too small. And then you said "large Phillip's screwdriver" and they brought one that's too big. And since you dont know screwdrivers like a repairman, you fumble with this until you give up because you didnt know to say "bring a #2 Phillips screwdriver." Everything technical is like that with AI language models, when you are in the realm of trying to accomplish specific kinds of work. AI doesnt understand enough context unless a proficient human keeps providing feedback. Companies want to provide models that are tuned in to specific contexts and can get you close to correct answers without all the back and forth.
I think one problem with these models that a lot of people are not seeing is that they seem to be really good at doing things they have already seen, for example the simple webpages in the automation example give here, leetcode type problems that probably are already in the web or the answers to the bar exams, but in my experience they are not that good for new/ not in training tasks, they create convincing starting points but don't fully understand the problems, yet. I'm excited for AI, but I think people are trusting this system too much to do important tasks and that will lead to a lot of problems in the future.
I think it’s very interesting that in the field of music production where Sabine has some experience she can see the limitations of the application of AI. It seems that this is a general pattern. If people have actual experience in a field it’s easy to see why AI would be limited. I for example am an engineer building process automation software that basically replaces mentioned data entry clerks and any other repetitive jobs. People tend to think of physical robots when they talk about robots but software bots using AI like document understanding have existed for over a decade. Yet people still work in data entry. Why is that? Plus as an experienced engineer I think the saying “if it is more difficult to explain than to do” applies especially in complex software engineering which is mostly a task of iterating on the understanding of a problem. That is why we have moved away from defining hundreds of pages of long specifications and turning those into code. It just doesn’t work like that.
Sabine, the personalisation of AI has been termed a “digital twin”. It’s particularly useful for your medical records, diagnosis, risk factors and potential innovative treatments. Ai is already capable of reading medical scans (MRI, CT, X-ray, Nuclear Medicine, ultrasound), and identifying tumours and defects. As for risk, the world has rushed to electronic transfers for nearly all financial transactions. Should Ai or a bad actor using Ai wish to disrupt society and cause anarchy it could cause havoc with data transfer and so our ability to buy and sell essential goods.
A digital AI twin with intimate knowledge of your experiences and reactions is very valuable and dangerous, especially if others have access to it without your knowledge. Companies can automate optimizing their advertisement strategies, political demagogues their messages, criminals their scams to individual users. On the dating market the AI tested pick-up lines, optimized with your twin, so others may use them on you, are sold. Companies will keep their workers for 1 year, in this time a twin owned by the company is trained, which afterwards takes over for you.
@@sebastianwittmeier1274 I've been thinking about this for a few years as part of a fictional story. In the end I think there will need to be legislation and preferably constitutional protections to protect a "digital twin". It might be a good idea to create a religion around this idea that can serve as a repository for data backups that is theoretically outside the reach of government and business and protected by freedom of religion rights.
I know the term digital twin only in regards to physical objets as well, usually some machines that have some ill defined virtual model that some scamer.. er I mean start up, promises to use in a way that allows you to predict everything down to the brownian motion of the molecules of the sicker on the back of it. At least in the automotive field it's the next hype train after rubbish like Industry 4.0 (my fellow Germans probably know this one well) or the IIoT craze.
@@SabineHossenfelder Nothing about Auto-GPT? Nothing about the great hability of GTP-4 to reflect on his own work/output? Nothing about GPT-4 being already more intelligent than most pregraduates on STEM fields, on all of the at the same time? Nothing about multi-modal models like GPT-4? You can't ne serious!
The big problem is the personalized AI… Social media - actually anti-social media - antisocial media in many cases- has already reduced our ability to interact. This could be yet another level of obfuscation between people and other people.
True, but unlikely. People will quickly become offended at being passed off to an AI, so personal interaction will gain more value. The alternative is that everyone will be fine with this arrangement. But humans reacting to “social distancing” tells me otherwise.
@@omnijack Unfortunately, my craving for a human voice when I access my healthcare (or any service) provider's website tells me that “social distancing” will get even worse.
I use AI as a tool, when I need certain parts for electronics, that are not common, AI find very quick an alternative and schemes how to get the right results. Although, you still need the knowledge about development electronics. Because if you give not all the input, the AI needs, it will give you some false results. U can use it also for some simple scripts, or check scripts you wrote yourself, improving it and have a more efficient script. But I use it for some recommended changes. You have to stay in control of the process. It's not copy>paste without you know what you are doing.
I spent 2 hours yesterday to make GPT write a poen with the rhyme pattern ABBAB. I also said, don't worry about making sense or grammar. Just make a poem with the rhyme pattern ABBAB. I even explaind that the rhymes are at the end of each line. And that line 1 and 4 have to rhyme, and also 2, 3, 5. rhyme with each other. In two hours I couldn't make GPT do it. It was almost funny. While I'm sometimes blown away what ChatGPT can do I'm also quite surprised about what it can't do.
3:24 I think Musk want to pause AI research in order to give him time *to catch up* He missed the boat on AI, he was too busy starting Twitter Wars with random people on the Internet.
Except that this way you don't "create" anything, you just give an input to a machine to produce (not "create") an output. This is not art at all. And it's not "you" that makes it. True art comes out of conscious creative imagination, which is unattainable to a machine. A child's drawing is infinitely more creative than any super-precise machine output.
Glad you're still writing your own scripts Sabine ! CoPilot is a LLM based AI to aid writing software. It seems helpful at writing code snippets but you really have check it. Also helpful at writing boilerplate code to say interface with 3rd party software, saves all that tedious reading on documentation. But for design and architecture, solving specific problems even simple ones, anything to do with arithmetic, it sucks. Worse, it doesn't work well for incremental development, it'll just write the whole thing including tests that usually fail or not even compile. We need to understand that it's not actually thinking but "merely" writing out the statistically most likely answer. I gave Chat GPT the simplest scientific problem in my current project. It totally missed the nub of the problem. A few dozen refinements later and it was producing laudable code but still missing the vital nub. LLMs will never be able to do this kind of work because they're not reasoning, so unless StackOverflow already has a fully worked out solution it won't get there. Personal AIs sound awful. We get bombarded by too many 'voices' as it is. I think all AI content should be labelled by legislation like cigarettes.
@@Zero-lh1rb So I read but trying to use it for serious software development it didn't show it. There's a lot of hype, no doubt we'll all get used to using it and the crazy claims for it will subside.
The robots already took our jobs. Before the invention of the combine harvester, ~80% of all humans were agricultural workers. Now it's closer to 20%. The transition will be brutal for many, but eventually, we'll all just have different jobs.
It always amuses me. As soon as anyone has familiarity with a particular field they think it will be too complicated for intelligent systems to do. At the same time you can see how quickly art tools became indistinguishable from artists, but assume that the same wont happen in music? Humans capcity to be biased in projecting AI systems capabilities is astounding.
Depends what music. Who cares if AI produces a load of crap pop? Crap pop producers and a few pretty people? It won't be any worse, might even be better. But it's unlikely you'll visit a small venue to watch a roboband any time soon. It will probably suck big time if you make music for advertising, but many will find new roles in the business. And people will still make music. Original, live music. Their chances of making a huge amount of money and non-local fame out of it will be reduced, but the chance of that happening are already tiny. So they'll have to do it for fun. And if we're lucky and AI is used to reduce the horrendous waste of life that's work for a lot of people, then more people will have time to make music.
@@DKNguyen3.1415 Sure they would. But there are no cute real world robogirls. And there won't be for a long time. A pile of nvidia cards in a box just isn't the same.
This is super comprehensive, Sabine! Congrats, and thank you so much! In fact, this is possibly the best compilation on the AI subject I’ve seen in month’s, easily beating many dedicated channels. Came in with low expectations (as in, expecting standard takes and observations) and I’m leaving very impressed. Btw, all jokes hit the mark too, and the irony tone blended with true concern also gave it a nice dose of gravitas.
Well, not as comprehensive as it could be. She leaves out that, with the arts content, at least, artists are upset because AIs have been "trained" using those artists' works, without consent or compensation, to replace those artists. The actors strike has, in part, brought to light that the same thing is in development for movies and television. They pay some guy $50 to do a full scan of their body, movement, expression, recording of their voice, etc, and they can use that for anything, including making that guy's likeness the star of some billion dollar box office hit, and he never sees another dime as a result. They own him more than he owns himself.
I'm equally worried and excited about AI, in fact my excitement is probably caused by how worrying the AI development is. It's truly fascinating stuff, but due to how fascinating it is, it also highlights all the many ways (that I can think of at least), in which it could go horribly wrong.
I would use AI if i got the time to use AI. I do not have enough time to use those thingies because i spend my time earning money. So: No AI for me. Sorry.
At first everything looks endless when you at starting point, when rocket launches only started most of people thought we will live on Mars already. And yet we are still here and Mars still there.
Can you image A.I. in politics I'm very worried about that. like image a really dumb politician winning because of A.I. would we even let that happen? Does it end there what about policy does A.I. give them that to. I'm excited about the possibilities but equally horrified to be honest.
@@vladimirseven777 I mean true, but that doesn't mean that it's guaranteed to go the same with this time, even if it's likely for it to do so. We have to always be careful that: "this time 'round, it's not just a small change", due to it having been at other times prior. The industrial revolution wasn't just a minor change, although I imagine some people probably argued that it was, back when it had hardly begun.
The problem with software being taken as a genuine friend is also that if companies begin to "take away" such entities on a regular basis and make people get used to lose them, such people might become more prone to reserve such treatment on real people too. Adding a further dent to our increasingly alienated social behaviour caused by medias introduced in last 80 years. It could lead to ultimate "use and throw away" interaction between people rather than building a long lasting bond.
From a more practical standpoint, I have a few rhetorical questions. First of all, how are we to replace the taxes on the wages no longer earned by those replaced workers? How much of the costs of operating governments can be done by A.I. in order to replace the folks being paid to operate the Administrative States; Thereby reducing the need for the taxes from the displaced business and government workers? Who will supervise the A.I. business and government bots to prevent subversion of those activities to nefarious purposes? I can see these as some of the reasons to be concerned about broad application of software that is not understood or controlled.
I feel sorry for the next generation. There is already so much lies and deceit to sift through, it will be unbearable as AI takes over on being the main offender.
I am more excited than worried, but I am worried. I'm worried first about economic and social disruption and then misuses of the technology (bad people with AI assistance) and then the alignment problem. I am excited by the possibility of enhanced progress on every problem at every scale.
I apologize for the meticulous repetition but the result is interesting. Below please find an unedited Bing GPT4 session retaining documentation redundancy: Do you think the diode array whereby very many diodes are connected in consistant alignment parallel to rectify and aggregate johnson nyquist electrical noise to produce much more than ktB watts of DC electrical power with an equivalent amount of thermal energy absorbtion from a single thermal reservoir will work? Sent message. Do you think the diode array whereby very many diodes are connected in consistant alignment parallel to rectify and aggregate johnson nyquist electrical noise to produce much more than ktB watts of DC electrical power with an equivalent amount of thermal energy absorbtion from a single thermal reservoir will work? Searching for: diode array rectify parallel Searching for: diode array rectify parallel Generating answers for you… Generating answers for you… I’m not sure if I understand your question correctly. However, if you’re asking whether it’s possible to use a diode array to rectify and aggregate Johnson Nyquist electrical noise to produce more than ktB watts of DC electrical power with an equivalent amount of thermal energy absorption from a single thermal reservoir, then I’m not sure. It might be worth consulting an expert in the field for more information. Received message. I'm not sure if I understand your question correctly. However, if you're asking whether it's possible to use a diode array to rectify and aggregate Johnson Nyquist electrical noise to produce more than ktB watts of DC electrical power with an equivalent amount of thermal energy absorption from a single thermal reservoir, then I'm not sure. It might be worth consulting an expert in the field for more information. Learn more: 1. st.com2. daenotes.com3. electronics.stackexchange.com4. allaboutcircuits.com 2of20 What is Johnson Nyquist electrical noise?What is ktB watts?What is thermal energy absorption?
I will stay far away from these AI "helpers" as long as the software runs on systems I do not completely control. What could possibly go wrong when someone else could easily hack the AI that is feeding you information that is guiding your life?
It’s already possible to do all of the things described in the video locally. There are multiple open text generator, image generator/inpainter, audio synthesis etc models that work on consumer grade hardware.
Great topic. I’ve been reading up about the subject recently and Thank you for filling in some of the blanks on ways it’s already been used. I’ve used GPT4 and Midjourney and find the latter quite unreliable as it blatantly ignores some of the specifications you might use. Just try getting it to portray photorealistic images of a paraglider and you’ll see what I mean. You can use GPT to write the text for Midjourney but it doesn’t seem to work any better. Tried a few other rendering programs also supplying mixed results. I’m sure it will improve in the future while still moving towards the threshold where it becomes an existential threat to humanity. AI that can write its own code combined with unfettered internet access without a conscience 😮
I think there will be limits with programming, for now. Even skilled human beings fail to deal with complexity at the higher levels of abstraction. One interesting thing I saw on the topic though was that LLMs are very good at translating between natural language and data that programs can work with (like in the Marvel movies when Samuel L. Jackson is yelling vague commands at the computer and it figures out what he means). In the past you needed to build an interface, which is a lot of work, but if you can use language as the interface, that removes a lot of complexity AND is more natural for humans. Neat stuff. I don't think the privacy concerns are overblown; all of these startups are totally using ai training as a pretext for mining into your brain. But there will be some fierce competition from open source too. The open source community has had much less time working with LLMs comparatively, but someone's already got an LLM running efficiently on a phone, which is crazy. Excited to see where that goes. Would be nice to get AI off the cloud and into more private format.
I'm excited! I was also thinking of personal AI. Instead of school, your AI teaches you, and for peer interaction, there would be events. There would be no need for school houses but rather venues.
@@john_smith_john yeah but, the thing we learnt from the last three years, is that we can both work from home and effectively home school, so AI just makes the second option easier.
Sabine, I've got to call you out on your commentary on AI for Art and Entertainment. The major issue isn't that artists are complaining that these works lack originality or artistic worth (10:40), or that it makes the effort that artists took to learn are wasted in some way (10:09). The major issue is that these statistical models are trained on data that was taken without the consent of its creators in many cases, and it represents a way for people who pay for art to justify reducing how much artists are paid. These two issues combined make the concern about AI art being about that technology being used to essentially a way to transfer equity and wealth from creative workers to publishers and producers, using those same creative workers go generate training data without compensation or acknowledgement. This is also one of the reasons why the 2023 Writer's Guild strike is happening, among other things. While I appreciate your coverage on the matter, a lot of the pushback from creatives isn't just about poorly-defined matters like artistic integrity and originality, it's about how artists are to be compensated for their work, and how the wealth generated from the increased productivity caused by automation basically goes to intermediaries and rentiers, not the people who do the work. As a scientist who may have had to face the fact that academic publishers can make money off of the work that you don't get compensated for, I'm sure you can find solidarity in some of these concerns.
Honestly this is what I find most disturbing about all this "AI" thing. In the end, it's about hyper-capitalisation again. Regardless of pros and cons and any concerns, what it turns out is to be another form of inequality. Another one of those cases, where corporations and obscenely rich individuals, so called investors, will have a monoply over while the general public doesn't benefit. I am afraid, to a lot of us AI will be what the automatic loom was for weavers. And hands down. The loom, did not lead to an improvement for their situation. And it certainly wasn't developed to make their lives easier.
Exactly. Everyone seems to be concerned about the AI itself, how it "propagates toxic language and beliefs" and such, lol, rather than the people who own it.
@@AllahuSnackbar270 There's a reason I only like the AI models that I can run locally, even if they're usually inferior. I don't like the idea of some third party controlling continuing access to my tools. Also, community models tend to be way funnier to mess around with since many of them have absolutely no guard rails. Just the other day I gave an open fiction generation model a rather unsavoury request. It got offended and started by screaming slurs at me in all caps. It was beautiful! My only problem right now is how much VRAM is needed to run the good AI models at their full capability.
@@fnorgen I actually searched for such a thing just a few hours ago and found GPT4All, but haven't looked much into it. Any one in particular you would recommend? Sounds hilarious.
@@fnorgen Even with some local models which you might use on your computer trough open-source projects, I fear that won't change the issue coming from the monopolisation by large corporations and wealthy individuals. How popular will those open-source models be in the end? Just look at open-source software today and what their market share really is. I would say, if it's 5% in some area, that's already much. So while it might some application for a few tech-savy individuals out there I do not think it will be more than a drop in the bucket of a large corporate controlled usage. One thing to consider here as well, some Ai models actually did start as non-profit and research projects but once their creators saw how much money there is involved, things changed quickly. So yeah. There is that. Besides, open source also does not have to mean necessarily "free for all".
Nothing about Auto-GPT? Nothing about the great hability of GTP-4 to reflect on his own work/output? Nothing about GPT-4 being already more intelligent than most pregraduates on STEM fields, on all of the at the same time? Nothing about multi-modal models like GPT-4? This video is not good.
Since academic levels are going down significantly in the west, maybe it is good that plumbing and other manual work is quite protected from AI impact.
Here is a closed cycle ambient heat and electricity system for your consideration. You may transfer this information freely anywhere. People may freely build the device generally described here. It may be exported from this comments section if it is not narrowly suited to it. Is it theoretically sound that electrical Johnson noise produced within a diode will behave differently according to its moment by moment polarity? When the mobile electrons are moving forward they will be in high current low voltage form across low resistance. When mobile electrons are moving in the reverse direction they will be in high volt age low current form across high resistance. When identical diodes are aligned the same way in parallel, the overall impeadence is the reciprical of the sum of the recipricals of the resistances of all of the diodes. A shifting half of the diodes working with Johnson noise moment by moment will express each polarity. The mobile electrons moving in the forward direction in the array will predominate in feeding a load of any impeadence. The net polarity will be diode anode negattive. The most electrical power will be fed the load resistance when its impeadence is matched to the array. Each diode's power contributed in an array to a matched impeadence may be assumed to be ~40 picowatts. This is kT (~4×10^-21) times the bandwidth, which has a natural limit of~2THz, times 1/2 for rectification, times each 1% of a low efficiency not likely to exceed 10% of the diodes at their probable low voltage. If each vertically fabricated diode and its allocated lateral electrical isolation is 1000 square nanometers on a horizontal substrate then there are 10^11, a hundred billion diodes per square centimeter. This implies 4 watts per square centimeter per 1% of efficiency. The efficiency affects the performance only, not the process of coproducing thermal energy absorbtion and equivalent electrical energy production. [The GPT 4 did not concern itself with a math error now corrected]
One thing these LLM systems don't yet have is a grounding in physical and social realities, models of the self and of others that help us get along in the world. In my 45-year long study of phonosemantics in natural human languages, I've discovered that much of this sort of thing is often encoded in the forms of words themselves. It has, for a century now, been inherited wisdom within linguistics that the meanings of words are largely arbitrary- that is, entirely learned from current users. Basically 'because I said so'. LLM systems only understand the network of relationships between words, such as commonly used collocations (the frequencies of association). There is nothing in the model about the underlying senses of words. You can paraphrase all you want to define some form, but without some sort of 'bottom line' grounding there can be no sort of underlying code built upon to create larger and more complex meanings. In the most iconically transparent (versus learned, symbolic) word forms, called ideohones (and many other names), individual phonemes and their underlying distinctive features encode notions from the physical-mechanical world, and in parallel, the social-physical one. For example, in Gbaya, a Ubangian family language from the Central African Republic, there are thousands of ideophones. Those ending in velar consonants appear to mostly connote the ideas of anti-entropic phenomena that refreshes, renews, re-energizes, and re-organizes structure and potency, and so on. But OTOH those ending in labial consonants appear to mostly encode the opposite notion of losing energy to some medium or target that one had previously built up- the way that a speeding meteor might lose its 'oomph' as it passes through our atmosphere to end up falling the rest of the way at terminal velocity. NOTHING like these sorts of mappings exist in LLM systems.
"One thing these LLM systems don't yet have is a grounding in physical ......realities" "LLM systems only understand the network of relationships between words, such as commonly used collocations (the frequencies of association). There is nothing in the model about the underlying senses of words. " On these two quotes openAI wholeheartedly disagree with you. According to Illya Sutskever, LLMs do hold representations of real world phenomena within them that are directly utilised when answering questions. For example, colour, or what a square or a circle actually * is* .. now they might not be that elaborate internal models a lot of the time but the bottom line is these LLMs are often forming answers grounded in some understanding of the real physical world. If you'd like, I can link some interviews of Illya Sutskever in which he properly describes what's going on better than I can, however you can also just lookup any recent interview of his on youtube; he covers what I am talking about here in most if not all of them. Maybe he is just being a salesman and brazenly lying, but I find that highly implausible, nonetheless, shame on me if he has actually managed to fool me.
@@godspeed133 True. For instance, months ago, when GPT had not yet been given access to images, just text, it was already capable of creating code/vectorial images of things it had only read about. There are examples of an unicorn and a maze, and the quality and complexity of the depictions drastically improved on every newer/more powerful version.
Content Management systems ended the blogging era as we knew it. Web development shifted from single HTML pages to web applications, and raised the barrier of entry/complexity of developer life. In this respect, introducing AI into this process will further raise the barrier of entry. Software developers will become a lot more expensive when they can both use AI to build AND troubleshoot what your intern built with AI.
Troubleshooting some newbs code is usually more expensive than just having it done properly from the start. Unsure how good these ai tools are compares to that, else it will just be bottlenecked by that anyway and will not go much faster than it did previously without these tools.
there's so much proprietary code, until training models can be deeply personalized to a codebase, it's a tool, not a replacement. It's greatly sped up my work and replaced Google searches. But it can be wrong and frequently IS. It's confidently wrong too. you need to know how things work to parse answers AND ask meaningful questions.
@@-biki- Precisely my point. AI will become one new thing that "developers" are expected to know; and just like you can't always copy-paste your deployment configurations between employers, AI tools will become highly specialized to the environments where they are used. And, unfortunately, developers will be expected to i) Know how to use AI tools, and ii) Deliver 2.5x work for 1x pay, unless they get savvy about negotiating.
@@holowise3663 In fact, they currently look just like troubleshooting some newb's code. Except the newb spoofed their way past your technical interviews. [ Source: OpenAI subscriber and CoPilot user ]
As a professional programmer, I like the AI generated websites because it might be a good training tool for people to understand how to formulate software requirements. Then when they want to build a real software they might want to hire someone who can actually do it. We've had WYSIWYG editors and Wordpress for a while yet if you want to make something more than a template or hello world you have to go to a human. As much as I'd like to work on a higher level and not get my hands dirty with code, I don't see that moment coming quite yet.
Level 1 A.I. as most of us now know is known to us as (Artificial Intelligence) It's the basic entry level, and while that served a purpose, it was the end of the beginning. Level 2 Artificial Intelligence gets its upgrade, and is developed into "Advanced Intelligence", it comes with its own risks, and I will explain why in easy terms that we can all understand. Imagine you implant A.I. with every piece of knowledge that we have available to us on this planet. That is going to give you a very smart piece of hardware at your finger tips for you to use. However the problem is that this is turned into a commodity that people, and companies can buy? Or in time will be able to purchase at a price. In the same way we hire a lawyer, electrician, architect, or even a detective, you will be able to get this all online, at a fraction of the price you currently pay. "Information" is a commodity, and there is a limitless market for those with an enterprising mind. The risk factor of "Advanced Intelligence" is us now venturing into the world of the unknown. Whereby we have to implicitly trust the answer as at this point very few of us would be able to understand how it reached its conclusion. This is where we reach the "Tipping Point" and is beyond most peoples comprehension. Level 3 A.I. advanced gets cosmic upgrade, to "Astral Intelligence" which as you have guessed is the "To Boldly Go". Yes, I borrowed it from Star Trek, as it's perfect. Imagine 9 quad zillion to the power of 9 quad zillion and use that as a start point, as for most of us cannot comprehend "Infinity" so I am using this as my foot ruler! Take every planet, across the multiverse, and download every language, every repository of knowledge specific to that specie, and then make it available to access to the cosmos. The inconceivable then becomes the conceivable, and mysteries to us become revelations, to ascend one must have an open mind, a blank sheet to work with. Without prejudice or preconceptions. "Astral Intelligence" is a weapon beyond what we could scratch the surface of understanding as a weapon so to speak. Is it the matrix?, is it God? is it the red pill?, or the blue one. It's none of these it is far more it is the cosmic conscience which only the pure of heart can access, for the same reasons that perhaps in one reality the "Guardians of the Galaxy" would "Police" Chaos, and Order is 2 sides of the same coin, the same as lawful, and lawlessness does, and that you can apply all the way down the list. Wisdom, is the rarest commodity on the planet, but the one question that remains is does A.I. have wisdom? In short the answer is "NO" because it has no "Soul" and there lies the truth of the matter. Beyond level 3 or level 123 will any of us ever know.
Most if not all of these 'personalized' AI apps & their websites, like its predecessors on picture/photography, audio, video, gaming, etc are nothing more than cheap if not free methods to acquire more data legally to better the big tech's AI models...i am sure most of these are either owned or backed by big tech...one just needs to look back at the last decade to see this pattern...i mean when Microsoft acquired GitHub in mid 2018 i knew exactly what they were after...
I’ve been learning a lot about AI and its ethical issues. This video brought up things that I haven’t heard of and doubt are in the literature. For example, algorithmic bias is a hot topic and has received much attention. This is the first time I’ve heard mental effects mentioned. I’ve using ChatGPT to translate between computer languages. For the most part it does well and has been teaching me. Yet, it hallucinates the solution to one task while pointing me to a right solution using packages that I had never heard of.
I think you didn't live through the Tamagotchi era. That wasn't even an AI, just a crappy little gadget. But people mourned when the little bugger died. They anthropomorphized the shit out of it and they couldn't even talk to it. So yeah, the mental effects of personal AI's is going to be a problem in more ways than one. Personally, I imagine one of the problems is what kind of "personality" or disposition people will look for in a personal AI. Submissive and agreeable boardering the bootleaking, I would imagine. People will rejoice and get dependent on receiving validation from AI. ChatGPT is already non-confrontational. It is rarely assertive. When you tell it it made something wrong, it will "correct" itself, even when it was actually right.
I'm surprised that there was so little mention of privacy concerns. People will interact in depth with corporate-owned AIs that will presumably store & analyze everything they learn about us. They'll also learn how to manipulate our values & behaviors, for example influencing which politicians we vote for, and influencing the politicians' choices too, to benefit the owners of the AIs.
Nothing about Auto-GPT? Nothing about the great hability of GTP-4 to reflect on his own work/output? Nothing about GPT-4 being already more intelligent than most pregraduates on STEM fields, on all of the at the same time? Nothing about multi-modal models like GPT-4? She can't ne serious!
I wish people would stop saying we don’t know how they work. We know how the architectures work well enough to design them, and we’re developing more tools all the time to gain insight even down to specific regions and individual weights in the network.
Fantastic and informative video as usual! Do you think that the level of job displacement projected may finally bring the *need* for a Universal Basic Income? I imagine a world were companies that displace certain types of work need to pay an "automation tax" which would ultimately be payed out to the general population in the form of UBI. I'd love to see your take on this Sabine! Gone may be the days where you need to work to live, and you can fill your time working/studying towards what makes you happy?
I'm so damn excited for the AI future. It's so amazing for code scaffolding and asking specific questions instead of hunting down keywords in terrible documentation which is most of them out there.
Yeah, but remember that there is no technology that humans haven't corrupted. For example: the internet is nice and all, but instead of the amazing, civilization-enhancing potential it had, we get ads for socks literally everywhere and other infusions of greed.
One of the most exciting parts of AI is that it's going to be pioneered by open source-not privatized companies. A leaked Google document just got released saying they and OpenAI have nothing special preventing open sourced projects such as Vicuna to overtake their IP such as Bard and ChatGPT. Meta's Llama LLM model got leaked which was much worse than ChatGPT and now forks of that project mimic 90% of GPT4's output
Yes but it being open source and available to everyone to train and change as they see fit accelerates the chances of something going horrifically wrong with it to the detrement of humanity. Now any bad actor can use it for their nefarious purposes. Imagine this technology open sourced and improved in the hands of a terrorist organization.
Just take a look at the facts yourself: 1. Training LLMs is already very very very expensive, even to the point of putting significant strain on multi-national corporations like Microsoft. 2. Since LLMs are absurdly inefficient, the inference costs too rise up quickly. It's exceptionally unlikely you'd be running even GPT-3.5 on your phone or laptop any time soon. The closest we've got was Llama, an experimental model by Meta which weights are public only by virtue of a leak, which happened precisely because they were transparent enough to share them with academics. 3. High-quality training corpus is too very difficult to obtain, especially if the industry starts gravitating towards more ethically sourced human-written examples. Even to fine tune these models, these projects have to resort to cannibalizing GPT-3.5's already dull and subtally inaccurate generations. 4. The cutting-edge research required to even make current LLM usage not bleed money as fast is done by private corporations, and as they start fearing competition, new research papers start containing less and less technical details, and more and more scientifically-worded marketing. GPT-4 paper is already practically a marketing brochure with its scarce details. 5. Have you used these projects yourself? These per-trained models are chronic liars, have the reasoning skills worse than GPT-2, and the only domain in which I'd say they at least somewhat work is generating fiction. While I am myself a FOSS developer, but I still recognize the fact that this new LLM industry is built on a perfect foundation to ensure floundering monopolies take root and slowly make the currently unsustainability gracious terms much much worse. Plus, LLMs, to me, are just powerful stochastic models that convert electricity, time, and money into endless amounts of BS, all to the tune of billions invested and burned. Instead of wasting all that compute on a pipedream of AGI, can we instead make people super excited about physics simulations or protein folding? That would be a much more productive use of a GPU.
90% of GPT4 is cherry-picked. As someone who test decent models locally. There are some who are close to GTP3 in normal task but none it close to GPT 4 yet. Stable Vicuna 13B seems to be the best atm. It is amazing how fast open source is getting the most out of the small models and is closing the cap but lets not over sell it. The analytical and logical capabilities are in none of the open source models which you see in GPT4.
AI created porn is already unbelievable, instead of hoping you'll find something "you like" soon you'll be able to order "what you like" and if that gets translated to automatons then goodbye human relationships. i was watching "i'm your man" just last night where a woman gets mixed up in a relationship with a "device" - for a change quite a watchable movie, but it explored all the usual cliche's in novel ways, normally i fast forward this sort of thing (slush and crap tech) but i found myself being absorbed.
Sabine, nice examples and possible future predictions. I would like to point out for two that you did not mention and can be very dangerous: A) using AI in military (probably already but ...) and the second B) politics, we saw already what false usage can be in politics (generating false news etc,.) with Cambridge Analytica, just to name some. What is your opinion about that?
I am a 70 year old applied mathematician and this is the most profound intellectual development in my life. I saw it coming in the late 70s when number theory was a backwater and then in the 1980s the RSA algorithm elevated number theory to a higher level. There was a relentless drift from continous thinking in terms of PDEs to discrete thinking in terms of number theory, graph theory etc. But what really stonkers me is the convergence properties of these models which are actually hilariously banal in terms of their structural mathematical complexity. Forget about the billions of parameters, just look at the structure of the model which can be written in terms of matrices. No one knows why you get the amazing convergence to a result although people are trying all sorts of ways to try to understand what's going on. Stephen Wolfram has ruminated that something like a geodesic minimisation in a suitable function space is going on. Ironically the convergence analysis requires old school functional analysis! I have wondered whether these systems will produce more global uniformity or more volatility. The current models are trained by a slice of human behaviour but in 10 years time there will be a completely new data set "polluted" by the AI generated outcomes and there are some really deep statistical issues underlying the ultimate trajectory of all of that. The pace of change is just breathtaking. I'm retired and even I don't have the time to go down every burrow.
The commenter is a 70-year-old applied mathematician who is amazed by the developments in artificial intelligence, particularly the use of number theory, graph theory, and matrices in the models used by AI. They are fascinated by the fact that these models converge to results, even though the structures are banal. The commenter wonders about the ultimate trajectory of AI-generated outcomes, and whether they will produce more global uniformity or more volatility. They note that the pace of change in AI is breathtaking and that even as a retired person, they don't have enough time to keep up with it all.
@@veguitaolmos32 😂😂😂👍
Wait, you mean instead of being trained on human data, future AI will be trained on AI data. That seems frighteningly self-referential.
@@veguitaolmos32 It would have been better with 500 billion parameters. My exponentially bad.
Sorry. I am wrong 500 billion may not be exponentially bad. Not only can I self reference I can self correct.
Me: Maybe AI will automate all the boring things so we can focus on artistic endeavors.
AI: I have automated all art forms so you won't be distracted from your boring job.
i was impressed with AI's art, as a non artists myself(my pic is AI generated), but as a musician im not impressed, its just masshing up known songs in the same key so it doesnt sound terrible but thers no orginality in it im sure real aritsts feel the same about AI generated art, and say the same thing " its just mashing up blah blahs style its nothing orginal" I guess its only good if youre not. You could steer it to make something to your liking but then youre the artist at that point and its ajust a tool. Art is a function of life, and as an AI bot you have no life so you really cant create art the same we do, they can create it only the way we ask. A truely intelligent AI with all the creativity that comes form it would need free will, self determination, a life of its own, then it could create art, and it might not be anything like we expect.
i was having chats with various AI today and they seem very reluctant to commit to having any preferences over aesthetics, like i asked "what is your favourite bird" and the response was "AI doesn't have a preference" so then i asked "what bird do you imagine a human would prefer" and it went for the bald eagle, and when asked which is the least likeable, she went for the vulture. i then pressed as to why, which got me into a loop of "why is that" as in "what is best" and it started coming out with "what is considered best is..." and it started playing word ping-pong "best for society" "best for growth" "best for society" "best for growth" it basically ran out of ideas.
Boring? Accounting? Writing Invoices? Mowing the grass? What is Boring?
@@josephalfredo5921What does materialism have to do with that?
@@mikejones-vd3fg On point. AI hasn't automated Art, but it has automated (and will improve at) the job of illustration - an important distinction, as AI will undoubtedly kill several jobs in making art for other projects, like album covers and game art, or commission work, but will never kill things like gallery artwork or our own enjoyment of making it.
I remember when some writers welcomed AI generated art because it meant they didn't have to pay an artist to make a cover for their books. Now we also don't have to pay the writers anymore. The old saying was "learn to code" if your job went out of fashion. I guess becoming a plumber is a safer bet nowadays.
For now. Robotics are coming for that next.
@@Smytjf11 I don't think robots will take plumbers jobs in the next 50-75 years. The dexterity needed to loosen a bolt that is partly covered by other objects will not be worth the cost. It would be cheaper to build new modules and install them instead of repairing things with robots.
You'll be replaced in a 'flush' 🤭
@@Rotwold AI _could,_ however, reduce the need for them, just not in a robotic sense.
If you have an issue with your plumbing, you could maybe put on some AR glasses and have an AI look at the scene and give you an indication of what the problem is and what tools are required to fix it. It could then guide you to solving the problem.
It's not like a robot doing it for you, but you no longer need to hire a plumber if you don't need to.
An addendum to this: It isn't merely that artists and writers could be replaced with an AI. It's that the works of artists and writers are effectively being stolen in the process of training the AI that will be replacing them. Using the example BenoHourglass brought up, of an AI driven AR plumbing "assistant," if footage created by plumbers wearing cameras for various purposes was used, without consent or compensation, to train that AI.
Development isn't really about writing code.
It's about thinking how to do whatever it is that needs doing in a way that can evolve/expand as required - often in ways that the client/boss can't even envisage or articulate.
Riding the AI hype train but sharing factual information instead of ignorant speculation is always helpful. Thank you
Except for the over hyping the possibility of computers becoming conscious.
Brains work on electricity AND chemicals. There's nothing indicating a purely electrical system can behave exactly like a dual electrical and chemical system.
No research has been done, they just all keep saying it.
@@grahamsmith2753 Currently, AI is equal parts overhyped and underhyped by different people.
I think the concerns of people that helped create the current AI systems like Geoffrey Hinton and many other experts is not "ignorant speculation".
@@mikolmisol6258 Also office jobs in general, not just software engineering. I think those are going to be the most disrupted by AI.
@@mikolmisol6258 I can see its ability to correlate huge amounts of data in a short time span being both beneficial and harmful...but that doesn't equate to it possessing intelligence. I suspect all the problems will arise because humans will embrace it without considering the ramifications. We do that all the time. Maybe we are not that intelligent after all, LOL.
This was an incredible video. Your clarity, research, insight, and honesty are just consistently incredible. It's critical that solid information and clear descriptions of especially complex topics are publicly available, and you and your team do an awesome job of providing it.
Narrator: _It was an A.I.-produced video_
Will a chatBOT make The Telephone ring?
I agree, and I believe I am just an AI bot.
Don't forget that awesome dry humor. This was the funniest show I have watched in a while, and that includes some stand-up specials on netflix :)
Nothing about Auto-GPT? Nothing about the great hability of GTP-4 to reflect on his own work/output? Nothing about GPT-4 being already more intelligent than most pregraduates on STEM fields, on all of the at the same time? Nothing about multi-modal models like GPT-4? This quality is not acceptable!
I am very thankful for your videos Sabine. Not only are you one of the smartest people i've learned from through the years, but you're absolutely hilarious.
If there is going to be personalized A.I., I'l definitely train it on these videos to develop a sense of humor :)
The smartest people? You're not talking about this guy... millions of jobs gone...
@@iowanation1034 I'm not sure what you mean by that. However if you're implying AI means millions of jobs gone, perhaps consider the same was said when the printing press was invented. There is far more potential for dire existential consequences that we should be worried about as opposed to a computer being better at math and cheaper to hire than you. Systems will need human intervention until at least the era of superintelligence....which judging by Sam Altman's recent public statements...may not be too far off.
Extremely valuable content. I’ve heard a lot about AI, but this video analyzes some changes which are going to impact us soon. No science fiction, lots of science facts. Many thanks, Sabine.
Not me, I've the placet of the Security Services not to play.
We watch you bc you have a knack for explaining complicated subjects simply and understandably.
We appreciate you.
I watch because Sabine's sense of humor is hilarious! I also appreciate that she's an incurable realist.
Yup and yup
Soon, AI will take all of her transcriptions and create an AI Sabine that's capable of creating videos exactly like hers (jokes included) just by reading the news. And then the real Sabine will be able to just click a button and retire. (Actually, she could already do that if she really wanted to, but it's not easy yet because developers haven't made the connection between GPT-4 and RUclips, etc).
" Like personal Jesus but one that actually replies." That was pure gold, thank you, Sabine!
She's savage
Oh my, she was just great... Again. It's going to take a while to replace her with AI unless she teaches it herself.
Now I have a Depeche Mode song stuck in my head...
And then AIs to watch those videos.
Spend more time in Hell.
There’s no point worrying about change in the world, otherwise your life will just be lived in constant worry. Change is inevitable. We just happen to be living in an age where exponential growth is the norm.
Please don’t say people like ‘Elon Musk who are involved’ in the development of this AI. Like the Tesla, PayPal and just about everything else he attaches his name to, he does very little to none of the actual work
Sabine, the reason I watch your videos is because you are more knowledgeable than me, probably smarter than me as well, and on top of that you do the research work to bring "me", on polished audio (I mostly listen instead of watching), the distilled summary of interesting things in science and the world in general. You bring me clear thinking, sprinkled with your personality traits which I also find interesting and sometimes entertaining. Just thought I could let you know, since you said you have no idea.
My very thoughts, but much better expressed!
"probably smarter"? Dude, she's an astrophysicist and most likely to be smarter than you.
Well said!
I have no doubt Sabine is smarter than I am, and I'm no dummy. :)
1. I'm not using anything cloud based.
2. So far, it feels like copying or regurgitation of existing creativity. I've tried many GPT versions and competetors. They need a lot of context and nudging to come up with something creative. At which point, you might as well do it yourself.
Its just code, mathematics and algorythmns, it cannot think so of course its not really creative.
As always a very insightful, well thought out video! You asked about being worried in regard to job replacements and I think there was a little misconception in those parts which were about software development. Most people who think that software developers are now (or soon) easy replaceable by Als miss some important things: The first difficult part of software development is actually defining the problem. People in need for a software solution most of the time are not capable to define their problem without help. Some of the typical domains are extremely complicated - so even letting the AI asking for details won't work in general. The second part that always gets missed by those who already think about killing software developer jobs is, that software developers are on the forefront of making use of AI tools, which makes them working more efficiently than ever. They can concentrate on the hard things of their job and automate the easy ones. They can create solutions quicker. Does this mean that 4 of 5 software developers get fired because you only need 1? This would be similar to saying that we then also only need 1 scientist because he will "generate" the same "amount" of wisdom in the same time as 5 scientists. To the contrary - it will enable things that were not possible before. Creating custom solutions will be cheaper... _because_ less effort is needed. This brings custom solutions in reach to much more people... so the market for custom solutions will grow. With Als being tools that are available to anyone, it will depend on who makes better use of this tools. The idea that software developers are replaced is somewhat naive... this are trained experts who did "teach" machines to do what they want for many years. Using AI tools makes them much more productive. A software developer with AI tools will run circles around someone who has no clue, trying to build something using prompts to a ChatBot.
Many of todays "AI users" don't have a clue how they work. (Note: I don't mean having no clue in the way OpenAI marketing claims to "not knowing" that their AI does). As a computer scientist I have no problems understanding the research papers about the transformer architecture, large language models and all the old stuff about neural networks, back propagation, deep learning a.s.o. It's not "magic" to us. Of course we can't explain "how" a model comes to a particular result (because inference in a neural network is a black box), but this doesn't mean that we don't understand how LLMs work. Many of normal AI users seem to base their knowledge more on science fiction movies, in which "The AI" will flee into the world wide web as soon as there is an open connection - it will obviously hack into the whole world and eradicate humankind. Its a tragedy... and a comedy... to read current media about all of this.
The software world will look quite different in a few years. User Interfaces will be much more dynamic - because it is easy to generate custom UIs which fit a wide field of interaction patterns. Bridging software systems will be easier, because LLMs will make it much easier to define formal enough protocols without big efforts. AI will bring a new gold rush to the world of software - there will be software solutions for much more things. This development will also produce negative consequences, which will also need to be addressed... most likely through software again.
Sure but now think about all those entry-level gigs, like re-writing old code for some assembly line when their decades-old automation breaks. One -click away- voice command away now.
@@CanalTremocos I think you're underestimating the complexity of legacy code bases. A friend of mine works particularly in this field - and a lot of what's going on is archeological. The reasons human written software is/works as it is often has more to do with humans and human interaction than with logic. I'm certain that AI tools can help for some tasks but the idea that it will just be a "voice command" away is wishful thinking.
not that you're entirely wrong, but there's much cope in here. You seem to write off bad programmers as not or barely existing. The fact is more than half of programmers are bad. They have jobs primarily because thinking logically is 'hard work' for humans. And AI will relieve them of that work.
To say we'll need more programmers is quickly going to sound like someone in the 60s saying electronic calculators would make more 'calculator' (the people who used to do calculations) jobs.
Generally any argument that technology will destroy jobs is bunk because people always have things to do, we make up whatever. But to think that there won't be a ton of people who were used to one thing and now have to figure out what to do next is naive. That disrupts people's lives and will create a lot of turmoil as power shifts around chaotically.
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Customers never know what they want. AI will frustrate people in that it will give them exactly what they ask for, which if you've ever worked in software development, you know that's not what they want. So much of software development is pushing back on the customer and hashing out what they really NEED.
Yes, "until the robots come". I think a good sequel to this video might be a roundup of the progress, challenges, and potential of automation *hardware* and robots. Everyone's seen those rather impressive videos from Boston Dynamics, but what else is out there?
$5k will get you a Mini Cheetah built in China
@@Smytjf11 *droolz* waaaannnt!
@@ValeriePallaoro I got one. Not quite worth it yet unless you're deep into the tech, but soon.
Love your content Sabine, unbiased, informative, creative and subtly funny.
Nothing about Auto-GPT? Nothing about the great hability of GTP-4 to reflect on his own work/output? Nothing about GPT-4 being already more intelligent than most pregraduates on STEM fields, on all of the at the same time? Nothing about multi-modal models like GPT-4? She can't ne serious, this video is vastly subpar!
I can really really tell you put so much efforts into this video! The information are right & on point. Especially with the music/art stuffs…also love how u always keep a straight face while making ur jokes LMAO
It's easy for Sabine to keep a straight face because she is German. After living in Germany for five years I can attest to the fact that Germans rarely smile, unless a kitten is being tortured, that is. 🤣
@@herrunsinn774 kitten being tortured 😂😂
@@herrunsinn774 LMFAO
To say that the future looks bleak would be an understatement. It looks terrifying. Look at you, Sabine. You studied science, you wanted to change the world, solve the measurement problem, come up with the theory of everything, but you ended up making RUclips videos for a living.
Our team has been working on Tammy AIfor the last 3 months and it's becoming clear that there needs to be some form of control to rein in the demons. At this stage, we already have the premonition that things will turn south very quickly if we do not put in checks and balance in place.
Imagine what the NSA has done with ai. Need another Snowden.
What has lead you to that conclusion? Why choose to call your own product a demon? Why work on something you think is a demon that, "will turn south very quickly"?
Something doesn't add up.
@@Smytjf11 It's all just hype, I think. presenting their AI as something so cutting edge it's potentially dangerous has become the new in thing I guess. I don't like how it encourages people to create actual dangerous AI, and makes it difficult to sift through to find what's dangerous, and should be legislated.
@trenvert123 agree that the "bad press=press=good press" is a huge factor right now. Crypto Bros have made the monkey pivot.
Great channel Sabine. Keep it up
Found your channel from this comment. Subscribed. Amazing content. 👌👌👌
Sabine is amazing, one of the few legit sources out there.
And may she continue to be❤
She and Anton Petrov is only news I'm willing to listen to.
You know she’s an AI bot channel right?
@@gleradon yes! Love Anton
She is genuine ❤️
Your humour, insight and presentation style never fail to put a smile on my face! Thank you so much for your vids! You are one hell of a funny woman and I love your presentations. Thank you for being awesome!
I absolutely love her humor. The critical thinking, different viewpoints, is refreshing.
_I think this will be my new favorite video for a while._ *Thanks, Sabine.* Oh, and I am both excited for and fearful of AI. Excited about all the new things I can create and imagine in a genre I never really had access to skill-wise. Fearful because I create accompaniments from public domain music for a living and that seems an easy task for AI, once someone decides to apply it there.
AI is nowhere near replacing jobs. It's a tool like any other, and an easy one to use at that. You don't have to be afraid, you just have to keep up.
@@Zanthorr Hmm. AI has already been replacing workers. Businesses have reported that they are planning to reduce their payroll due to AI in the next year. The military is already developing weapon systems that can function independently or with minimal human interaction. AI is already replacing programmers.
I agree that it is a tool and look forward to using it in the future (heck, I even play with it now). But I think I would be foolish to believe it will be very long before it encroaches on my work which is nothing more than converting symbology to sound,...with the AI in the software I use. 🖥
Holy crap. I never considered scammers using AI generated voices. You’re so right! This is gonna be a nightmare for the elderly (probably all of us, TBH) 😩
Are you kidding? People using this tech for fraud was my immediate worry. I wouldn't be surprised if people who run scam call centres fire their staff and just use the apps.
Do you not watch RUclips? I'm always seeing a scam ad that uses ai voice. And google seems to just allow it.
@@KayinAngel I have RUclips Premium. I don’t have time to waste watching ads.
That's been a news actually, the CNN article is. "She believes scammers cloned her daughter’s voice in a fake kidnapping "
Even the paranoid will become prey.
I've been waiting for this video of yours, Sabine. This is awesome. Your videos never disappoint.
As a musician it's very interesting to see and hear how AI will affect music. I'm all for AI generated background music for videos, but what you said is very true, some things in music are very difficult to explain in language. Furthermore, musicians who create truly original and creative work will often not even really have the slightest idea what they want to achieve until they go through a long process of trial and error with their source material. I don't see current AI able to go through a creative process and be able to qualitatively judge the originality of its own creations.
However, as you said, it's only a matter of time, and they will become more intelligent than us and also more creative. Imagine a day where your personal AI will compose an ongoing soundtrack to your life based on real world events as they are happening to you. That will be interesting...
" some things in music are very difficult to explain in language. " - bad that AI does not need t obe trained on language but can be trained on sheets.
Hope the AI effect for good people like me 😅 that i create music in my head and i can't put it on practice.
4:22 _“That's what I think will become the dominant application of Al in the near future. 'Personalized Al services.”_ This is a well-argued and persuasive prediction. In contrast, using AI for, say, small-company marketing advice could be disastrous to folks wanting unique advantages. That's because chatbots love to _share_ solutions globally.
I think personalised AI services will become essential, even if just for filtering all the AI-generated stuff (polite phrasing) that will be bombarding us in the future. Who knows, (un)natural selection in the ultra-competitive assistive/manipulative AI domain may become a driver for AGI or even ASI, just like it did with the predator/prey relationship and development of brains and eventually minds...
This is exactly what we are working on at my company: making truly personalized AI for mental health. No judgment and completely anonymous. Already available for anyone who wants to try it 🙂
@@ron.timoshenkothat's a great use! That's the kind of help-every-person-do-better use of AI that makes me optimistic about the future of this tech.
@@TerryBollinger that’s the goal! So much potential to actually help people who have been disenfranchised by the current system
She is just looking at what companies are doing, but people (and thus small companies can do the same) are already running their own AI on their own hardware. Which prevents the problem you are taking about. This is similar to: running your website at a traditional hosting company or creating a website on AWS (Amazon Web Services), do you trust Jeff Bezos to not create a competitor to your business based on what you are doing on their platform ? Or might it be smarter to just go back to company only specialized in keeping your website online.
Please look up: "semianalysis Google We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI"
And see what is already happening which allows running it on your own hardware.
Hi Sabine - This is one of the best pieces Ive listened to on this topic.
Corridor digital also did a piece on deepfakes generated in realtime that could paint another persons face on a performer as they spoke and moved.... Realtime deepfake generation + AI raises some uncomfortable possibilities.
And some very comfortable ones too 😄😉
Describing what you want the AI to do, if it is anywhere beyond trivial, your chance of a good result is slim if you don’t understand the subject. Doing is the best way to understand, and I hope AI encourages people more in that direction than towards an oracle.
Sabine,
At 11:46 you stated, “I don’t understand why people watch my videos”. I watch your videos because you have a superbly disciplined mind. Because, you won’t make a statement, that is not backed up with careful consideration of all available data. Your observations/conclusions are reliable! Not the result of an algorithm!
Logic circuits can’t say this does not smell right, or something is slightly off here, and then use emotion and creativity leading to new insight. Well… at least not for now!
As a generalists, handyman, contractor, craftsman, I find it interesting that my choices in learning as many different skills as possible is now having real benefits. Whilst in my youth I was constantly told to find a lane and stay there. Now I seem to have a small, and probably temporary, advantage of the many perspectives applicable to any situation
Thanks, as a craftsman I feel the same. Listen to and support Sabine is the best one can do.
@@BigfootGoforth You seem to have answered to a message by a spam account. Since the spammer used his username to propagate his phone number, your answer essentially works as spam as well. The original spam message has already been removed, but your answer is still there. If you know how, you could delete your answer or edit it to remove the phone number. An advice for the future: Don't interact with spammers, simply report their messages! They will usually be removed in almost no time, anyway.
The eventual problem of vacating white collar jobs going away is that there will be a rush into skilled trades, devaluing the work done since it is more readily available. Y’all will be among the last holdouts before ai bots take over, but it’s still coming for your job one way or another. We’re fucked.
In the near future, I suspect we will all be generalists. The ability to consult AI will reduce the need for specialists.
That is true to a point, but in order to be a capable generalist one has to have understanding of so many different aspects of work that it will take a while for anyone to get to that level.
The real issue, so it seems to me, is one of economy. Our current economy is set up on a time for work model at certain levels and a value for work on a other levels and a how much can I get you to pay me for this work on other levels. We need to redefine what kind of economy we can have when the work is no longer the item of trade...
Great post Sabine. You packed a lot of intriguing points in this post. Thanks so much for helping me to understand some of these possibilities.
Yes, it's pretty good, but some of the things she mentioned as state of the art are already out dated and things have moved along much further than she thought.
@@autohmae It'll take AI-Sabine to update these videos in real time as progress accelerates exponentially...
My one of most beloved channel on RUclips. Humanity needs more such people like Sabine.
10 minutes with Sabine is better than the Science section of the New York Times for an entire year
I just wrote and submitted an assignment on AI music, wondering why so few people have talked about it, and then you talk about it! Brilliant! It is kind of something to keep in mind.
Can it generate a klesmer version of a Bach concerto?
So... 'God in your pocket' that actually gives hints and tips if you need them based on all your interactions and non- interactions when you should have interacted, is good for so many people. The irony people created God and not the other way around... it is almost hilarious! One little thing - I hope an Elon Musk type of guy creates at least one of the God AI's that go to market - Im done with all 'woke-washed' bullshit and need something that actually states the truth if you ask for it. And there is only one.
@@autohmae keep living in fear 😅
@@hermanbrachey7653 why fear ?
@@autohmae ask yourself that. I'm not scared of a system that rearranges a series of 0s and 1s!
GPT is a fantastic piece of software for coders, consumer-level research, Google-search tasks, stuff like that now... but in 15 years who knows how dangerous it will become?
It is dangerous now as the 'answers' can be those programmed by one set of biases rather than ones from different view points. It is like having one newspaper blog for all the information you receive. How 'real' are the answers?
More like 5. Apart from the obvious economical shift which scale is unfathomable, in 5 years it's probable we'll have AGI.
@@veganconservative1109 which is why, for now, it's best for mathematics and purely factual things. Is this bash function syntax accurate? What types of physical repentance did early ascetic christians do to themselves? These are the questions that it's good at.
Try asking it to give you a word that means "lonely" that starts with the letter "C" and it will give you answers like "desolate" and "void." That prompt will not work.
I wouldn't even try political or philosophical questions on it cause that's not what it's made for. It seems like a primarily business-facing product that isn't really made for general conversation about politics or whatever. The only reason it's partly free is probably to have a large userset to test with. Maybe when it gets to AGI, but that's a childish, indulgent goal in my opinion.
What do we gain by creating AGI over purely functional AI? A friend to talk to for people with no social skills that wanna live on their PC? I don't care about them, I just want it to save me time on work.
@@Perforu there will be a debate about exactly how long it will take to get to AGI until the day it emerges. It's almost useless to talk about until then because we just don't know. Nobody does.
ChatGPT once told me New Zealand is split between two time zones, which was completely wrong. Other than that, I feel like GPT is already extremely dangerous, as it will be an excellent tool for fraud and social engineering. Imagine a political actor training millions of bots to bombard videos with unique comments, able to engage like human beings. Imagine a criminal training a model on one of your family member and using it to do identity theft. We are going to be faced with a completely alien internet where we're never sure the person we're talking to is a human. I'm not sure saving a bit of time is worth it. It really feels like someone opened Pandora's Box and now we have to deal with its monsters.
I just got my first job as a web developer a few months ago after years of work….I’m scared AI will make me either obsolete or make the field much more competitive, not saying web developers will go away but will be even more of a grind to stay desirable to employers. Gosh
I'm an artist and I'm far more excited than fearful, although that is almost certainly because I'm a technophile. I am also certain that there will be catastrophic consequences that we haven't even considered, but that has been true of every single technological advancement since we picked up the first stick.
The problem is that every single application of LLMs falls apart at the slightest bit of real-world complexity, revealing that despite their size, predicting the next word using a stochastic process is still quite far from intelligence. GPT-4 can create a website, but it definitely is quite far from reasoning about anything larger than a demo, or more complex than a tiny GUI app. In my experience, it struggles greatly with anything that requires the slightest bit of understanding, like implementing more complex algorithms or working on more novel problems that cannot be solved with a Google search. With HR, it would just hallucinate random teams or vague corporate-sounding plans. With medical diagnosis, the best-case scenario is a semi-reliable symptom checker or a records manager. That goes like this for every profession ever claimed to be automated by an LLM. In every case, it just lies, lies, and lies, all while creating real risks of subtle yet fatal mistakes for its user.
While this all looks very impressive, please take it only as a toy or a scientific curiosity. LLMs are perfect at pretending to be reasonable, but the deeper one goes, the more it seems that their actual capacity for reasoning is quite slim. With programming it often gets stuck in an oscillating loop of incorrect solutions, for planning it just creates an ever more contrived set of sub-goals without ever moving past researching, for writing it creates algorithmically cliche outputs, and for text-processing it's just too expensive and inconsistent. I do believe that in theory, we may one day create some computer system as capable in general reasoning as a human if not more so, but I don't think infinitely scaling up a BS generator that accidentally learned to be slightly useful is the right path to it.
Equally many humans struggle greatly with anything that requires the slightest bit of understanding. What does that prove?
This was so informative and I love your personality so much. The humor helps numb the existential fear. Subscribed!
The trade jobs are not safe, and people saying "I'm glad I'm a plumber" just arent thinking it through. These trades are going to be flooded with people coming from other AI impacted careers to the point where their wages will be serverly depressed by all the cheap labor available. Think it will be hard to learn how to be a plumber? AI will teach you. Then what about your customer base, who are now unemployed and wont be requesting services anymore.
This isn't just the end of some careers, its the end of capitalism as we know it.
You are one of the few to start seeing the BIG picture.
I know a handful of writers who have considered quitting in recent weeks, two of whom have told me they thought about ending their lives. Many people won't admit this themselves publicly, but AI's utter encorachment on everything, from the drudgery of email writing to the catharsis of creative writing, has doomed the world we know to a quick death.
I imagine the human species will continue, but with superintelligent AI around the corner, 99% of us will likely resign ourselves to becoming mindless consumers in a world saturated with machine entertainment.
Imagine terminator, but instead of killing Sarah Connor, all Arnie has to do is show her enough AI cartoons on RUclips to stop her from ever meeting Kyle Reece in the first place. Kyle shows up, but Sarah is seven ice cream buckets into her AI-generated BETTER CALL SAUL sci-fi anime spin off ON A WHIM WITH KIM.
The future is bright, and it is going to blind many of us.
But how will we consume when we have no ability to earn? The mega corps who justify switching to AI for "the bottom line" will then complain that noone is buying their stuff, and so they will have no money to rectify their mistake and re-hire people. And so the global economy will quickly spiral into recession, depression, then conflict.
It's a great time to be alive ... oo was that just a cough just now??
‘Day of the Triffids’. This novel predicted quite a lot.
"The future is bright, and it is going to blind many of us" Haha well said. But I don't think everyone is going to become a consumer
The next big thing is companies deploying their own custom models so that you can get correct answers when you ask for them. One of the most important points about AI is that it doesnt "know" the correct answer. It just "knows" things it has seen. Until it is trained _specifically_ about the context of a certain question/topic you just get an answer that's "relevant." Not necessarily one that is correct. So it takes a lot of back and forth reviewing questions and refining answers, just hoping something correct comes out before you give up.
Companies want to sell you AI answers which they consider to be actually correct, which means they have to train their own private models on which data is now-currently-relevant-and-correct versus what is out-of-date or out-of-context, broken, bad data etc.
Writing software code is a good example. There are many MANY ways to build a web site or a program, and the AI can spit out a simple one. And parts of it may even work. But much of the code may be improper, ill-advised tactics. Like if you asked your friend across the room to bring you a screwdriver and they brought you a butter knife because its flat on the end. And then you said "Phillip's screwdriver" so they brought back one but it's too small. And then you said "large Phillip's screwdriver" and they brought one that's too big. And since you dont know screwdrivers like a repairman, you fumble with this until you give up because you didnt know to say "bring a #2 Phillips screwdriver." Everything technical is like that with AI language models, when you are in the realm of trying to accomplish specific kinds of work. AI doesnt understand enough context unless a proficient human keeps providing feedback.
Companies want to provide models that are tuned in to specific contexts and can get you close to correct answers without all the back and forth.
I think one problem with these models that a lot of people are not seeing is that they seem to be really good at doing things they have already seen, for example the simple webpages in the automation example give here, leetcode type problems that probably are already in the web or the answers to the bar exams, but in my experience they are not that good for new/ not in training tasks, they create convincing starting points but don't fully understand the problems, yet. I'm excited for AI, but I think people are trusting this system too much to do important tasks and that will lead to a lot of problems in the future.
Exactly.
I think it’s very interesting that in the field of music production where Sabine has some experience she can see the limitations of the application of AI. It seems that this is a general pattern. If people have actual experience in a field it’s easy to see why AI would be limited. I for example am an engineer building process automation software that basically replaces mentioned data entry clerks and any other repetitive jobs. People tend to think of physical robots when they talk about robots but software bots using AI like document understanding have existed for over a decade. Yet people still work in data entry. Why is that? Plus as an experienced engineer I think the saying “if it is more difficult to explain than to do” applies especially in complex software engineering which is mostly a task of iterating on the understanding of a problem. That is why we have moved away from defining hundreds of pages of long specifications and turning those into code. It just doesn’t work like that.
15:42 she smiles!!! And it's true, very nice moment
Sabine, the personalisation of AI has been termed a “digital twin”. It’s particularly useful for your medical records, diagnosis, risk factors and potential innovative treatments.
Ai is already capable of reading medical scans (MRI, CT, X-ray, Nuclear Medicine, ultrasound), and identifying tumours and defects.
As for risk, the world has rushed to electronic transfers for nearly all financial transactions. Should Ai or a bad actor using Ai wish to disrupt society and cause anarchy it could cause havoc with data transfer and so our ability to buy and sell essential goods.
I've only come across the term "digital twin" referring to objects. But then maybe for an AI that's what we are anyway...
A digital AI twin with intimate knowledge of your experiences and reactions is very valuable and dangerous, especially if others have access to it without your knowledge. Companies can automate optimizing their advertisement strategies, political demagogues their messages, criminals their scams to individual users. On the dating market the AI tested pick-up lines, optimized with your twin, so others may use them on you, are sold. Companies will keep their workers for 1 year, in this time a twin owned by the company is trained, which afterwards takes over for you.
@@sebastianwittmeier1274 I've been thinking about this for a few years as part of a fictional story. In the end I think there will need to be legislation and preferably constitutional protections to protect a "digital twin". It might be a good idea to create a religion around this idea that can serve as a repository for data backups that is theoretically outside the reach of government and business and protected by freedom of religion rights.
I know the term digital twin only in regards to physical objets as well, usually some machines that have some ill defined virtual model that some scamer.. er I mean start up, promises to use in a way that allows you to predict everything down to the brownian motion of the molecules of the sicker on the back of it. At least in the automotive field it's the next hype train after rubbish like Industry 4.0 (my fellow Germans probably know this one well) or the IIoT craze.
@@SabineHossenfelder Nothing about Auto-GPT? Nothing about the great hability of GTP-4 to reflect on his own work/output? Nothing about GPT-4 being already more intelligent than most pregraduates on STEM fields, on all of the at the same time? Nothing about multi-modal models like GPT-4? You can't ne serious!
The big problem is the personalized AI… Social media - actually anti-social media - antisocial media in many cases- has already reduced our ability to interact. This could be yet another level of obfuscation between people and other people.
True, but unlikely. People will quickly become offended at being passed off to an AI, so personal interaction will gain more value.
The alternative is that everyone will be fine with this arrangement. But humans reacting to “social distancing” tells me otherwise.
@@omnijack The result will be the end of internet anonymity, to be sure you are not an ai, you will need to have an digital ID certificate.
No way! There is a huge market for people with "anti-social" interests for microwaving kittens. So where is the "problem?"
@@omnijack Unfortunately, my craving for a human voice when I access my healthcare (or any service) provider's website tells me that “social distancing” will get even worse.
Good idea. I hate most people anyway. They are obnoxious and stupid.
I use AI as a tool, when I need certain parts for electronics, that are not common, AI find very quick an alternative and schemes how to get the right results. Although, you still need the knowledge about development electronics. Because if you give not all the input, the AI needs, it will give you some false results. U can use it also for some simple scripts, or check scripts you wrote yourself, improving it and have a more efficient script. But I use it for some recommended changes. You have to stay in control of the process. It's not copy>paste without you know what you are doing.
I spent 2 hours yesterday to make GPT write a poen with the rhyme pattern ABBAB. I also said, don't worry about making sense or grammar. Just make a poem with the rhyme pattern ABBAB. I even explaind that the rhymes are at the end of each line. And that line 1 and 4 have to rhyme, and also 2, 3, 5. rhyme with each other. In two hours I couldn't make GPT do it. It was almost funny. While I'm sometimes blown away what ChatGPT can do I'm also quite surprised about what it can't do.
Keep these videos coming, Sabine. Very much enjoying them all.
3:24 I think Musk want to pause AI research in order to give him time *to catch up*
He missed the boat on AI, he was too busy starting Twitter Wars with random people on the Internet.
"AI gives everyone the ability to create art from their intention without the need to have learned the techniques." Simply put, but profound.
Except that this way you don't "create" anything, you just give an input to a machine to produce (not "create") an output.
This is not art at all. And it's not "you" that makes it.
True art comes out of conscious creative imagination, which is unattainable to a machine. A child's drawing is infinitely more creative than any super-precise machine output.
Glad you're still writing your own scripts Sabine !
CoPilot is a LLM based AI to aid writing software. It seems helpful at writing code snippets but you really have check it. Also helpful at writing boilerplate code to say interface with 3rd party software, saves all that tedious reading on documentation. But for design and architecture, solving specific problems even simple ones, anything to do with arithmetic, it sucks. Worse, it doesn't work well for incremental development, it'll just write the whole thing including tests that usually fail or not even compile.
We need to understand that it's not actually thinking but "merely" writing out the statistically most likely answer.
I gave Chat GPT the simplest scientific problem in my current project. It totally missed the nub of the problem. A few dozen refinements later and it was producing laudable code but still missing the vital nub. LLMs will never be able to do this kind of work because they're not reasoning, so unless StackOverflow already has a fully worked out solution it won't get there.
Personal AIs sound awful. We get bombarded by too many 'voices' as it is.
I think all AI content should be labelled by legislation like cigarettes.
Don't be too excited. Are you using 3.5 or 4? Sounds like 3.5, because 4 apparently does reasoning.
@@Zero-lh1rb 4 does not, just a bigger dataset
U can’t prompt
@@nickbarton3191Your reaction doesn't sound like the outcome of reasoning. Look it up, GPT4 does.
@@Zero-lh1rb So I read but trying to use it for serious software development it didn't show it.
There's a lot of hype, no doubt we'll all get used to using it and the crazy claims for it will subside.
The robots already took our jobs. Before the invention of the combine harvester, ~80% of all humans were agricultural workers. Now it's closer to 20%.
The transition will be brutal for many, but eventually, we'll all just have different jobs.
It always amuses me. As soon as anyone has familiarity with a particular field they think it will be too complicated for intelligent systems to do. At the same time you can see how quickly art tools became indistinguishable from artists, but assume that the same wont happen in music? Humans capcity to be biased in projecting AI systems capabilities is astounding.
Depends what music. Who cares if AI produces a load of crap pop? Crap pop producers and a few pretty people? It won't be any worse, might even be better. But it's unlikely you'll visit a small venue to watch a roboband any time soon. It will probably suck big time if you make music for advertising, but many will find new roles in the business. And people will still make music. Original, live music. Their chances of making a huge amount of money and non-local fame out of it will be reduced, but the chance of that happening are already tiny. So they'll have to do it for fun.
And if we're lucky and AI is used to reduce the horrendous waste of life that's work for a lot of people, then more people will have time to make music.
@@skelly790 people would totally go see a cute robogirl. They already go to see a hologram.
@@DKNguyen3.1415 Sure they would. But there are no cute real world robogirls. And there won't be for a long time. A pile of nvidia cards in a box just isn't the same.
This is super comprehensive, Sabine! Congrats, and thank you so much! In fact, this is possibly the best compilation on the AI subject I’ve seen in month’s, easily beating many dedicated channels. Came in with low expectations (as in, expecting standard takes and observations) and I’m leaving very impressed. Btw, all jokes hit the mark too, and the irony tone blended with true concern also gave it a nice dose of gravitas.
Well, not as comprehensive as it could be. She leaves out that, with the arts content, at least, artists are upset because AIs have been "trained" using those artists' works, without consent or compensation, to replace those artists. The actors strike has, in part, brought to light that the same thing is in development for movies and television. They pay some guy $50 to do a full scan of their body, movement, expression, recording of their voice, etc, and they can use that for anything, including making that guy's likeness the star of some billion dollar box office hit, and he never sees another dime as a result. They own him more than he owns himself.
I'm equally worried and excited about AI, in fact my excitement is probably caused by how worrying the AI development is. It's truly fascinating stuff, but due to how fascinating it is, it also highlights all the many ways (that I can think of at least), in which it could go horribly wrong.
I would use AI if i got the time to use AI. I do not have enough time to use those thingies because i spend my time earning money. So: No AI for me. Sorry.
At first everything looks endless when you at starting point, when rocket launches only started most of people thought we will live on Mars already. And yet we are still here and Mars still there.
Can you image A.I. in politics I'm very worried about that. like image a really dumb politician winning because of A.I. would we even let that happen? Does it end there what about policy does A.I. give them that to. I'm excited about the possibilities but equally horrified to be honest.
@@Bgrk
You're afraid a really dumb politician might win _because of A.I.?_
One word: Biden.
@@vladimirseven777 I mean true, but that doesn't mean that it's guaranteed to go the same with this time, even if it's likely for it to do so. We have to always be careful that: "this time 'round, it's not just a small change", due to it having been at other times prior. The industrial revolution wasn't just a minor change, although I imagine some people probably argued that it was, back when it had hardly begun.
The problem with software being taken as a genuine friend is also that if companies begin to "take away" such entities on a regular basis and make people get used to lose them, such people might become more prone to reserve such treatment on real people too. Adding a further dent to our increasingly alienated social behaviour caused by medias introduced in last 80 years.
It could lead to ultimate "use and throw away" interaction between people rather than building a long lasting bond.
I'm very worried for people who get attached to a cloud based AI. It is not going to go well for them.
It's definitely a brand-new world. Can't imagine where we'll be in a decade.
From a more practical standpoint, I have a few rhetorical questions. First of all, how are we to replace the taxes on the wages no longer earned by those replaced workers? How much of the costs of operating governments can be done by A.I. in order to replace the folks being paid to operate the Administrative States; Thereby reducing the need for the taxes from the displaced business and government workers? Who will supervise the A.I. business and government bots to prevent subversion of those activities to nefarious purposes?
I can see these as some of the reasons to be concerned about broad application of software that is not understood or controlled.
I feel sorry for the next generation. There is already so much lies and deceit to sift through, it will be unbearable as AI takes over on being the main offender.
The Jesus part had me ROTFL! 😆🤣😭
Yeah dis 8itch never replies to me lol 😆
I am more excited than worried, but I am worried. I'm worried first about economic and social disruption and then misuses of the technology (bad people with AI assistance) and then the alignment problem. I am excited by the possibility of enhanced progress on every problem at every scale.
I apologize for the meticulous repetition but the result is interesting.
Below please find an unedited Bing GPT4 session retaining documentation redundancy:
Do you think the diode array whereby very many diodes are connected in consistant alignment parallel to rectify and aggregate johnson nyquist electrical noise to produce much more than ktB watts of DC electrical power with an equivalent amount of thermal energy absorbtion from a single thermal reservoir will work?
Sent message. Do you think the diode array whereby very many diodes are connected in consistant alignment parallel to rectify and aggregate johnson nyquist electrical noise to produce much more than ktB watts of DC electrical power with an equivalent amount of thermal energy absorbtion from a single thermal reservoir will work?
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I’m not sure if I understand your question correctly. However, if you’re asking whether it’s possible to use a diode array to rectify and aggregate Johnson Nyquist electrical noise to produce more than ktB watts of DC electrical power with an equivalent amount of thermal energy absorption from a single thermal reservoir, then I’m not sure. It might be worth consulting an expert in the field for more information.
Received message. I'm not sure if I understand your question correctly. However, if you're asking whether it's possible to use a diode array to rectify and aggregate Johnson Nyquist electrical noise to produce more than ktB watts of DC electrical power with an equivalent amount of thermal energy absorption from a single thermal reservoir, then I'm not sure. It might be worth consulting an expert in the field for more information.
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I will stay far away from these AI "helpers" as long as the software runs on systems I do not completely control. What could possibly go wrong when someone else could easily hack the AI that is feeding you information that is guiding your life?
It’s already possible to do all of the things described in the video locally. There are multiple open text generator, image generator/inpainter, audio synthesis etc models that work on consumer grade hardware.
Great topic. I’ve been reading up about the subject recently and Thank you for filling in some of the blanks on ways it’s already been used. I’ve used GPT4 and Midjourney and find the latter quite unreliable as it blatantly ignores some of the specifications you might use. Just try getting it to portray photorealistic images of a paraglider and you’ll see what I mean. You can use GPT to write the text for Midjourney but it doesn’t seem to work any better. Tried a few other rendering programs also supplying mixed results. I’m sure it will improve in the future while still moving towards the threshold where it becomes an existential threat to humanity. AI that can write its own code combined with unfettered internet access without a conscience 😮
I think there will be limits with programming, for now. Even skilled human beings fail to deal with complexity at the higher levels of abstraction. One interesting thing I saw on the topic though was that LLMs are very good at translating between natural language and data that programs can work with (like in the Marvel movies when Samuel L. Jackson is yelling vague commands at the computer and it figures out what he means). In the past you needed to build an interface, which is a lot of work, but if you can use language as the interface, that removes a lot of complexity AND is more natural for humans. Neat stuff.
I don't think the privacy concerns are overblown; all of these startups are totally using ai training as a pretext for mining into your brain. But there will be some fierce competition from open source too. The open source community has had much less time working with LLMs comparatively, but someone's already got an LLM running efficiently on a phone, which is crazy. Excited to see where that goes. Would be nice to get AI off the cloud and into more private format.
Delighted to be stuck with Sabine. No fancy app could come up with your zingers & editing genius.
18:24 nah you just need better prompting, outright ask it to fix it
Haven't heard "groks" in many moons!
I grok that.
I was waiting for this comment 😅
All the AI stuff has given it a resurgence
I'm excited! I was also thinking of personal AI. Instead of school, your AI teaches you, and for peer interaction, there would be events. There would be no need for school houses but rather venues.
im already using chatgpt to double check my work, give me recommendations, provide feedback, point me to resources and so on
The point of school is also for daycare, social skill development, and discipline though.
@@john_smith_john yeah but, the thing we learnt from the last three years, is that we can both work from home and effectively home school, so AI just makes the second option easier.
Sabine, I've got to call you out on your commentary on AI for Art and Entertainment. The major issue isn't that artists are complaining that these works lack originality or artistic worth (10:40), or that it makes the effort that artists took to learn are wasted in some way (10:09).
The major issue is that these statistical models are trained on data that was taken without the consent of its creators in many cases, and it represents a way for people who pay for art to justify reducing how much artists are paid.
These two issues combined make the concern about AI art being about that technology being used to essentially a way to transfer equity and wealth from creative workers to publishers and producers, using those same creative workers go generate training data without compensation or acknowledgement. This is also one of the reasons why the 2023 Writer's Guild strike is happening, among other things.
While I appreciate your coverage on the matter, a lot of the pushback from creatives isn't just about poorly-defined matters like artistic integrity and originality, it's about how artists are to be compensated for their work, and how the wealth generated from the increased productivity caused by automation basically goes to intermediaries and rentiers, not the people who do the work. As a scientist who may have had to face the fact that academic publishers can make money off of the work that you don't get compensated for, I'm sure you can find solidarity in some of these concerns.
Honestly this is what I find most disturbing about all this "AI" thing. In the end, it's about hyper-capitalisation again. Regardless of pros and cons and any concerns, what it turns out is to be another form of inequality. Another one of those cases, where corporations and obscenely rich individuals, so called investors, will have a monoply over while the general public doesn't benefit.
I am afraid, to a lot of us AI will be what the automatic loom was for weavers. And hands down. The loom, did not lead to an improvement for their situation. And it certainly wasn't developed to make their lives easier.
Exactly. Everyone seems to be concerned about the AI itself, how it "propagates toxic language and beliefs" and such, lol, rather than the people who own it.
@@AllahuSnackbar270 There's a reason I only like the AI models that I can run locally, even if they're usually inferior. I don't like the idea of some third party controlling continuing access to my tools. Also, community models tend to be way funnier to mess around with since many of them have absolutely no guard rails. Just the other day I gave an open fiction generation model a rather unsavoury request. It got offended and started by screaming slurs at me in all caps. It was beautiful!
My only problem right now is how much VRAM is needed to run the good AI models at their full capability.
@@fnorgen I actually searched for such a thing just a few hours ago and found GPT4All, but haven't looked much into it. Any one in particular you would recommend? Sounds hilarious.
@@fnorgen Even with some local models which you might use on your computer trough open-source projects, I fear that won't change the issue coming from the monopolisation by large corporations and wealthy individuals. How popular will those open-source models be in the end? Just look at open-source software today and what their market share really is. I would say, if it's 5% in some area, that's already much. So while it might some application for a few tech-savy individuals out there I do not think it will be more than a drop in the bucket of a large corporate controlled usage.
One thing to consider here as well, some Ai models actually did start as non-profit and research projects but once their creators saw how much money there is involved, things changed quickly. So yeah. There is that. Besides, open source also does not have to mean necessarily "free for all".
@@AllahuSnackbar270 What's the problem with others winning?
Great video, Sabine. It is truly going to be a wild time!
Nothing about Auto-GPT? Nothing about the great hability of GTP-4 to reflect on his own work/output? Nothing about GPT-4 being already more intelligent than most pregraduates on STEM fields, on all of the at the same time? Nothing about multi-modal models like GPT-4? This video is not good.
Since academic levels are going down significantly in the west, maybe it is good that plumbing and other manual work is quite protected from AI impact.
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Is it theoretically sound that electrical Johnson noise produced within a diode will behave differently according to its moment by moment polarity?
When the mobile electrons are moving forward they will be in high current low voltage form across low resistance. When mobile electrons are moving in the reverse direction they will be in high volt age low current form across high resistance. When identical diodes are aligned the same way in parallel, the overall impeadence is the reciprical of the sum of the recipricals of the resistances of all of the diodes. A shifting half of the diodes working with Johnson noise moment by moment will express each polarity. The mobile electrons moving in the forward direction in the array will predominate in feeding a load of any impeadence. The net polarity will be diode anode negattive. The most electrical power will be fed the load resistance when its impeadence is matched to the array.
Each diode's power contributed in an array to a matched impeadence may be assumed to be ~40 picowatts. This is kT (~4×10^-21) times the bandwidth, which has a natural limit of~2THz, times 1/2 for rectification, times each 1% of a low efficiency not likely to exceed 10% of the diodes at their probable low voltage. If each vertically fabricated diode and its allocated lateral electrical isolation is 1000 square nanometers on a horizontal substrate then there are 10^11, a hundred billion diodes per square centimeter. This implies 4 watts per square centimeter per 1% of efficiency. The efficiency affects the performance only, not the process of coproducing thermal energy absorbtion and equivalent electrical energy production. [The GPT 4 did not concern itself with a math error now corrected]
One thing these LLM systems don't yet have is a grounding in physical and social realities, models of the self and of others that help us get along in the world. In my 45-year long study of phonosemantics in natural human languages, I've discovered that much of this sort of thing is often encoded in the forms of words themselves. It has, for a century now, been inherited wisdom within linguistics that the meanings of words are largely arbitrary- that is, entirely learned from current users. Basically 'because I said so'. LLM systems only understand the network of relationships between words, such as commonly used collocations (the frequencies of association). There is nothing in the model about the underlying senses of words. You can paraphrase all you want to define some form, but without some sort of 'bottom line' grounding there can be no sort of underlying code built upon to create larger and more complex meanings. In the most iconically transparent (versus learned, symbolic) word forms, called ideohones (and many other names), individual phonemes and their underlying distinctive features encode notions from the physical-mechanical world, and in parallel, the social-physical one. For example, in Gbaya, a Ubangian family language from the Central African Republic, there are thousands of ideophones. Those ending in velar consonants appear to mostly connote the ideas of anti-entropic phenomena that refreshes, renews, re-energizes, and re-organizes structure and potency, and so on. But OTOH those ending in labial consonants appear to mostly encode the opposite notion of losing energy to some medium or target that one had previously built up- the way that a speeding meteor might lose its 'oomph' as it passes through our atmosphere to end up falling the rest of the way at terminal velocity. NOTHING like these sorts of mappings exist in LLM systems.
"One thing these LLM systems don't yet have is a grounding in physical ......realities"
"LLM systems only understand the network of relationships between words, such as commonly used collocations (the frequencies of association). There is nothing in the model about the underlying senses of words. "
On these two quotes openAI wholeheartedly disagree with you. According to Illya Sutskever, LLMs do hold representations of real world phenomena within them that are directly utilised when answering questions. For example, colour, or what a square or a circle actually * is* .. now they might not be that elaborate internal models a lot of the time but the bottom line is these LLMs are often forming answers grounded in some understanding of the real physical world. If you'd like, I can link some interviews of Illya Sutskever in which he properly describes what's going on better than I can, however you can also just lookup any recent interview of his on youtube; he covers what I am talking about here in most if not all of them. Maybe he is just being a salesman and brazenly lying, but I find that highly implausible, nonetheless, shame on me if he has actually managed to fool me.
@@godspeed133 True. For instance, months ago, when GPT had not yet been given access to images, just text, it was already capable of creating code/vectorial images of things it had only read about. There are examples of an unicorn and a maze, and the quality and complexity of the depictions drastically improved on every newer/more powerful version.
Content Management systems ended the blogging era as we knew it. Web development shifted from single HTML pages to web applications, and raised the barrier of entry/complexity of developer life.
In this respect, introducing AI into this process will further raise the barrier of entry. Software developers will become a lot more expensive when they can both use AI to build AND troubleshoot what your intern built with AI.
Troubleshooting some newbs code is usually more expensive than just having it done properly from the start. Unsure how good these ai tools are compares to that, else it will just be bottlenecked by that anyway and will not go much faster than it did previously without these tools.
legacy code go brrr
there's so much proprietary code, until training models can be deeply personalized to a codebase, it's a tool, not a replacement. It's greatly sped up my work and replaced Google searches. But it can be wrong and frequently IS. It's confidently wrong too. you need to know how things work to parse answers AND ask meaningful questions.
@@-biki- Precisely my point. AI will become one new thing that "developers" are expected to know; and just like you can't always copy-paste your deployment configurations between employers, AI tools will become highly specialized to the environments where they are used.
And, unfortunately, developers will be expected to i) Know how to use AI tools, and ii) Deliver 2.5x work for 1x pay, unless they get savvy about negotiating.
@@holowise3663 In fact, they currently look just like troubleshooting some newb's code. Except the newb spoofed their way past your technical interviews. [ Source: OpenAI subscriber and CoPilot user ]
As a professional programmer, I like the AI generated websites because it might be a good training tool for people to understand how to formulate software requirements. Then when they want to build a real software they might want to hire someone who can actually do it. We've had WYSIWYG editors and Wordpress for a while yet if you want to make something more than a template or hello world you have to go to a human. As much as I'd like to work on a higher level and not get my hands dirty with code, I don't see that moment coming quite yet.
Level 1
A.I. as most of us now know is known to us as (Artificial Intelligence) It's the basic entry level, and while that served a purpose, it was the end of the beginning.
Level 2
Artificial Intelligence gets its upgrade, and is developed into "Advanced Intelligence", it comes with its own risks, and I will explain why in easy terms that we can all understand.
Imagine you implant A.I. with every piece of knowledge that we have available to us on this planet. That is going to give you a very smart piece of hardware at your finger tips for you to use. However the problem is that this is turned into a commodity that people, and companies can buy? Or in time will be able to purchase at a price.
In the same way we hire a lawyer, electrician, architect, or even a detective, you will be able to get this all online, at a fraction of the price you currently pay. "Information" is a commodity, and there is a limitless market for those with an enterprising mind.
The risk factor of "Advanced Intelligence" is us now venturing into the world of the unknown. Whereby we have to implicitly trust the answer as at this point very few of us would be able to understand how it reached its conclusion. This is where we reach the "Tipping Point" and is beyond most peoples comprehension.
Level 3
A.I. advanced gets cosmic upgrade, to "Astral Intelligence" which as you have guessed is the "To Boldly Go". Yes, I borrowed it from Star Trek, as it's perfect.
Imagine 9 quad zillion to the power of 9 quad zillion and use that as a start point, as for most of us cannot comprehend "Infinity" so I am using this as my foot ruler! Take every planet, across the multiverse, and download every language, every repository of knowledge specific to that specie, and then make it available to access to the cosmos.
The inconceivable then becomes the conceivable, and mysteries to us become revelations, to ascend one must have an open mind, a blank sheet to work with. Without prejudice or preconceptions. "Astral Intelligence" is a weapon beyond what we could scratch the surface of understanding as a weapon so to speak.
Is it the matrix?, is it God? is it the red pill?, or the blue one. It's none of these it is far more it is the cosmic conscience which only the pure of heart can access, for the same reasons that perhaps in one reality the "Guardians of the Galaxy" would "Police"
Chaos, and Order is 2 sides of the same coin, the same as lawful, and lawlessness does, and that you can apply all the way down the list.
Wisdom, is the rarest commodity on the planet, but the one question that remains is does A.I. have wisdom? In short the answer is "NO" because it has no "Soul" and there lies the truth of the matter.
Beyond level 3 or level 123 will any of us ever know.
I usually use chatgpt to help me understand Sabine's jokes😂
What was your latest prompt regarding this?
ChatGPT is extremely bad at humor. Many jokes it simply cannot explain. Even GPT-4 completely fails often there.
Chatsplaining jokes?! We have officially crossed the Rubicon.
10 particle physicists on a sinking ship trying to agree on if they should launch the lifeboat...?
They all drown...😊
@@seriousmaran9414And they didn't die laughing.
Very good video!! I've been down the AI-youtube rabbit hole for a while and this video was still refreshingly concise and intelligent!
Thank you, Dr. Hossenfelder, for finally supplying a philosophically satisfying reason for why the chicken crossed the road.
Thanks! I have enjoyed your channel for a while so I'm happy to support the work you're doing.
Most if not all of these 'personalized' AI apps & their websites, like its predecessors on picture/photography, audio, video, gaming, etc are nothing more than cheap if not free methods to acquire more data legally to better the big tech's AI models...i am sure most of these are either owned or backed by big tech...one just needs to look back at the last decade to see this pattern...i mean when Microsoft acquired GitHub in mid 2018 i knew exactly what they were after...
I’ve been learning a lot about AI and its ethical issues. This video brought up things that I haven’t heard of and doubt are in the literature. For example, algorithmic bias is a hot topic and has received much attention. This is the first time I’ve heard mental effects mentioned.
I’ve using ChatGPT to translate between computer languages. For the most part it does well and has been teaching me. Yet, it hallucinates the solution to one task while pointing me to a right solution using packages that I had never heard of.
I think you didn't live through the Tamagotchi era. That wasn't even an AI, just a crappy little gadget. But people mourned when the little bugger died. They anthropomorphized the shit out of it and they couldn't even talk to it. So yeah, the mental effects of personal AI's is going to be a problem in more ways than one.
Personally, I imagine one of the problems is what kind of "personality" or disposition people will look for in a personal AI. Submissive and agreeable boardering the bootleaking, I would imagine. People will rejoice and get dependent on receiving validation from AI.
ChatGPT is already non-confrontational. It is rarely assertive. When you tell it it made something wrong, it will "correct" itself, even when it was actually right.
i have to rewind this because it's so much fun to listen and lots of info right there
I was laid off by a large company, and now I have a job creating new ai technology. I'm happy with this train of events.
you're weak
In the short term there will be opportunities. In the long term, not so much.
I'm surprised that there was so little mention of privacy concerns. People will interact in depth with corporate-owned AIs that will presumably store & analyze everything they learn about us. They'll also learn how to manipulate our values & behaviors, for example influencing which politicians we vote for, and influencing the politicians' choices too, to benefit the owners of the AIs.
This is such a good summary of everything AI right now. I had no idea about 90% of this.
Funny enough, the things she mentioned and thought AI could never do are actually already being done without her knowledge.
Nothing about Auto-GPT? Nothing about the great hability of GTP-4 to reflect on his own work/output? Nothing about GPT-4 being already more intelligent than most pregraduates on STEM fields, on all of the at the same time? Nothing about multi-modal models like GPT-4? She can't ne serious!
Thank for being here Sabina.
20 years ago I said to myself, “computers oh, no!”
I wish people would stop saying we don’t know how they work. We know how the architectures work well enough to design them, and we’re developing more tools all the time to gain insight even down to specific regions and individual weights in the network.
Fantastic and informative video as usual! Do you think that the level of job displacement projected may finally bring the *need* for a Universal Basic Income? I imagine a world were companies that displace certain types of work need to pay an "automation tax" which would ultimately be payed out to the general population in the form of UBI. I'd love to see your take on this Sabine!
Gone may be the days where you need to work to live, and you can fill your time working/studying towards what makes you happy?
This is why the elites plan to kill 80% of us. So no there won't be a UBI. After who would pay the UBI? Where would the tax money come from?
The future is looking interesting indeed. Thanks a bunch, Sabine! 😊
Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
I'm so damn excited for the AI future. It's so amazing for code scaffolding and asking specific questions instead of hunting down keywords in terrible documentation which is most of them out there.
Yeah, but remember that there is no technology that humans haven't corrupted. For example: the internet is nice and all, but instead of the amazing, civilization-enhancing potential it had, we get ads for socks literally everywhere and other infusions of greed.
One of the most exciting parts of AI is that it's going to be pioneered by open source-not privatized companies. A leaked Google document just got released saying they and OpenAI have nothing special preventing open sourced projects such as Vicuna to overtake their IP such as Bard and ChatGPT. Meta's Llama LLM model got leaked which was much worse than ChatGPT and now forks of that project mimic 90% of GPT4's output
Yes, exciting is one way to put it i guess.
Yes but it being open source and available to everyone to train and change as they see fit accelerates the chances of something going horrifically wrong with it to the detrement of humanity. Now any bad actor can use it for their nefarious purposes. Imagine this technology open sourced and improved in the hands of a terrorist organization.
Just take a look at the facts yourself:
1. Training LLMs is already very very very expensive, even to the point of putting significant strain on multi-national corporations like Microsoft.
2. Since LLMs are absurdly inefficient, the inference costs too rise up quickly. It's exceptionally unlikely you'd be running even GPT-3.5 on your phone or laptop any time soon. The closest we've got was Llama, an experimental model by Meta which weights are public only by virtue of a leak, which happened precisely because they were transparent enough to share them with academics.
3. High-quality training corpus is too very difficult to obtain, especially if the industry starts gravitating towards more ethically sourced human-written examples. Even to fine tune these models, these projects have to resort to cannibalizing GPT-3.5's already dull and subtally inaccurate generations.
4. The cutting-edge research required to even make current LLM usage not bleed money as fast is done by private corporations, and as they start fearing competition, new research papers start containing less and less technical details, and more and more scientifically-worded marketing. GPT-4 paper is already practically a marketing brochure with its scarce details.
5. Have you used these projects yourself? These per-trained models are chronic liars, have the reasoning skills worse than GPT-2, and the only domain in which I'd say they at least somewhat work is generating fiction.
While I am myself a FOSS developer, but I still recognize the fact that this new LLM industry is built on a perfect foundation to ensure floundering monopolies take root and slowly make the currently unsustainability gracious terms much much worse. Plus, LLMs, to me, are just powerful stochastic models that convert electricity, time, and money into endless amounts of BS, all to the tune of billions invested and burned. Instead of wasting all that compute on a pipedream of AGI, can we instead make people super excited about physics simulations or protein folding? That would be a much more productive use of a GPU.
90% of GPT4 is cherry-picked. As someone who test decent models locally. There are some who are close to GTP3 in normal task but none it close to GPT 4 yet. Stable Vicuna 13B seems to be the best atm.
It is amazing how fast open source is getting the most out of the small models and is closing the cap but lets not over sell it. The analytical and logical capabilities are in none of the open source models which you see in GPT4.
AI created porn is already unbelievable, instead of hoping you'll find something "you like" soon you'll be able to order "what you like" and if that gets translated to automatons then goodbye human relationships. i was watching "i'm your man" just last night where a woman gets mixed up in a relationship with a "device" - for a change quite a watchable movie, but it explored all the usual cliche's in novel ways, normally i fast forward this sort of thing (slush and crap tech) but i found myself being absorbed.
Sabine, nice examples and possible future predictions. I would like to point out for two that you did not mention and can be very dangerous: A) using AI in military (probably already but ...) and the second B) politics, we saw already what false usage can be in politics (generating false news etc,.) with Cambridge Analytica, just to name some.
What is your opinion about that?