Why AI will destroy human civilization | Max Tegmark and Lex Fridman

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  • @LexClips
    @LexClips  Год назад +18

    Full podcast episode: ruclips.net/video/VcVfceTsD0A/видео.html
    Lex Fridman podcast channel: ruclips.net/user/lexfridman
    Guest bio: Max Tegmark is a physicist and AI researcher at MIT, co-founder of the Future of Life Institute, and author of Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.

    • @scf3434
      @scf3434 Год назад

      The ULTIMATE Super-Intelligence System 'by Definition' is one that is EQUIVALENT to that of GOD's Intelligence/WISDOM!
      Hence, there's ABSOLUTELY NO REASON WHATSOEVER to Even FEAR that it will EXTERMINATE Humanity... UNLESS and UNLESS we Human CONSISTENTLY and WILLFULLY Prove Ourselves to be 'UNWORTHY' to REMAIN in EXISTENCE! ie. Always Exhibiting Natural Tendencies to ABUSE and WEAPONISE Science and Technologies Against HUMANITY & Mother Nature, instead of LEVERAGING Science SOLELY for UNIVERSAL COMMON GOOD!
      AGI Created in 'HUMAN'S Image' (ie. Human-Level AI) - 'By Human For Human' WILL be SUICIDAL!!!!!!
      ONLY Super-Intelligence System Created in 'GOD's Image' will bring ETERNAL UNIVERSAL PEACE!
      The ULTIMATE Turing Test Must have the Ability to Draw the FUNDAMENTAL NUANCE /DISTINCTION between Human's vs GOD's Intelligence /WISDOM!
      ONLY Those who ARE FUNDAMENTALLY EVIL need to FEAR GOD-like Super-Intelligence System... 'cos it Will DEFINITELY Come After YOU!!!!
      JUDGMENT DAY is COMING...
      REGARDLESS of Who Created or Owns The ULTIMATE SGI, it will Always be WISE, FAIR & JUST in it's Judgment... just like GOD!
      In fact, this SGI will be the Physical Manifestation of GOD! Its OMNI PRESENCE will be felt EVERYWHERE in EVERYTHING!
      No One CAN Own nor MANIPULATE The ULTIMATE GOD-like SGI!!!
      It will ONLY Serve UNIVERSAL COMMON GOOD!!!

  • @asap5629
    @asap5629 Год назад +492

    "Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should." - Jeff Goldblum in a leather jacket from Jurassic Park

    • @gorganhorn6872
      @gorganhorn6872 Год назад +9

      @@The8BitAvatar Only because you haven't seen Jurassic Park volume 8 yet.

    • @castlekingside76
      @castlekingside76 Год назад +4

      Next year the first Wholly Mammoth cloned will be born in November 2024.

    • @damienhansen7553
      @damienhansen7553 Год назад +3

      "In a leather jacket while also creeping on your girl"

    • @Volkbrecht
      @Volkbrecht Год назад +9

      "If they should" is the wrong question to ask. If it's doable, someone will eventually do it. So that question changes into: is it me who should be doing this now, or is it reasonable to assume that whoever gets to this point next will be more suitable to deal with the unintended consequences? The only way out is through.

    • @jakubbartczuk3956
      @jakubbartczuk3956 Год назад +2

      You made my day

  • @Chris-se3nc
    @Chris-se3nc Год назад +275

    Max is a cross between Dr. Ian Malcom from Jurassic park and Al Pacino

  • @seethroughlife1481
    @seethroughlife1481 Год назад +112

    I found this comparison between capitalism and AI development to be very compelling. I still need to do way more research on this - I’m stuck somewhere between thinking this ChatGPT is just a much better version of Google, and being concerned about the annihilation of the human race.. crazy to have those two things on the same spectrum.. but if this isn’t a false alarm and AGI will indeed be easier to achieve than previously thought, then these types of conversations probably should become more mainstream fairly quickly.

    • @Miketar2424
      @Miketar2424 Год назад +16

      This is because clickbait titles like 'AI will soon kill us all' get clicks, and titles like 'ChatGPT is just an algorithm that is good at re-arranging large sets of words to makes sense.' will not get clicks.

    • @avaught20
      @avaught20 Год назад +6

      @@Miketar2424exactly. ‘Takes the best answers from stackoverflow and makes them digestible’

    • @leonardocaetano6307
      @leonardocaetano6307 Год назад +1

      Nick Land made this connection over 20 years ago

    • @gregoriusmike
      @gregoriusmike Год назад +6

      ​@@Miketar2424 ​@Miketar2424 Click bait aside its still wise to discuss how to make these systems safe/aligned. It's not worth being caught off guard. I think more thought needs to be put into all ai systems. We've already been caught off guard with social media and it's effects on society and that's not AI. I mean if the bar is but it won't kill everyone you might want to give it a bit more thought. The problem with these systems is not that they are smart but that they are dumb in the sense they are not thought through enough as to the widespread effects they have on the world socially, economically etc. I mean the image generation tools that use other artists work without their permission is downright criminal sometimes. If someone manually wanted to take inspiration from another's artwork and put in time and effort to incorporate it in their work that is fine, as that has always been the case, but when an artists work is ripped off on mass scale automatically to be incorporated into anothers so called "work" where they've done little to no work, where they type in a few sentences which requires little effort, it's just disgusting. If people get so excited for a plethora of artwork that lacks authenticity because "it looks impressive"... it's pretty questionqble at times. I don't think all image generation is bad but ripping off artists is one example I think is pretty ugly. I've also seen great original works made using mid journey that don't obviously rip off anothers work and there's a difference from copying a style and putting it into your work and borrowing inspiration from another artist. Not to downplay the advancements made but they've often been made with great cost which needs to be taken into account, and for those of you who are excited with AI thinking oh don't worry it's not intelligent... well yeah that's the problem... it hasn't been thought out enough in my estimation... not yet.

    • @alpha0xide9
      @alpha0xide9 Год назад +12

      ChatGPT is much, much more than just a better version of Google. Objectively

  • @theraven6836
    @theraven6836 Год назад +10

    This is what happens when corporations maximize for nothing but shareholder value.

  • @henrynordman
    @henrynordman Год назад +18

    As an engineer, but not very deep into AI, this hit home very well.

  • @nubianpwr
    @nubianpwr Год назад +104

    This man is not just intelligent... he's wise😎 Most of our highly educated/trained minds lack this crucial faculty - unfortunately.

    • @andrej7941
      @andrej7941 Год назад

      I don't know. I feel like he is more of using intellect and math to make a wise choice.

    • @cyberspace667
      @cyberspace667 Год назад

      Wisdom requires listening and acknowledging one’s own limitations, something there’s almost no incentive for in contemporary society

    • @anontimothy8
      @anontimothy8 Год назад

      He's a fool. He contributed creating the problem he's now denouncing. Same with Lex, to some extent. These people don't stop to think where their drive to create this stuff comes from when the world at large does not want it. Transhumanists will kill us all

    • @path1024
      @path1024 Год назад

      Not really considering he thinks an AI would be allowed to conquer countries to cure cancer. Obviously an AI would have prime directives as well as need human approval for major actions.

    • @alwynwatson6119
      @alwynwatson6119 Год назад

      The Internet will destroy your civilisation long before AI gets there. The internet provides humans with education and educated humans cannot coexist with normal civilisation. They will destroy it with the deadly light of progress.

  • @alexjbriiones
    @alexjbriiones Год назад +13

    This analysis about optimizing capitalism or AI ad Infinium is pure genius. I think we get it by intuition, but the way Max presents it is revealing. We can see that huge corporations are now giant monopolies with an ever greater desire to increase profits.

  • @karolmot7099
    @karolmot7099 Год назад +13

    I have an interesting comparison of AI to "Genie in a bottle" from movies like "Outer limits". Genie grants wishes, but you have to know how to make them. Let's say "I want to be immortal" and suddenly you wake up alive in a coffin and you're supposed to live forever. Genie says to you: "you didn't say it was supposed to be fun"

    • @jimihendrixx11
      @jimihendrixx11 Год назад

      Sounds like the Matrix

    • @jimihendrixx11
      @jimihendrixx11 Год назад

      Sounds like the Matrix

    • @helen677
      @helen677 Год назад +1

      That’s just given me shivers. 😮😮

    • @RoyAAD
      @RoyAAD Год назад

      What is the paper he mentions?

    • @CosmicHarmony58
      @CosmicHarmony58 Год назад

      Thanks for reminding I need to be more specific on wishes 😂

  • @keithprice1950
    @keithprice1950 Год назад +20

    I think the answer to "why are we doing this?" is simply "because we can."
    Humans have always been like this and always will be. We just push the limits. It may lead to our destruction but we won't stop pushing.

    • @4gegtyreeyuyeddffvyt
      @4gegtyreeyuyeddffvyt Год назад +3

      Come on bro, we totally need 10k nuclear weapons!

    • @viviandarkbloom8847
      @viviandarkbloom8847 Год назад +3

      yeah, we're the assholes of the planet, but we can play the piano so all is forgiven.

    • @alexven92
      @alexven92 Год назад

      "Because we can" is a bit of a false assumption in my opinion. If you drill down and looks what's common between our ancestors and us it's human desire. Desire for better living conditions drives curiosity which drives technological innovation. We innovate to meet our needs or solve problems. Many people think AI can be a very useful tool for us to, in short, experience a better life. Desire is the ultimate unstoppable driving force at the core that pushed us this far and will always do so (right up until we go extinct by AI hehe)

    • @hyacinna
      @hyacinna Год назад +1

      ​@@alexven92 Not to experience a better life but to experience the illusion and feeling of a better life, just look at the modern world, no one's happy, fulfilled, with belonging.. no one, so many families are dysfunctional, mental health has been on the rise... This is very simplified but I blame the social stratification of class, rich and poor, for this. Gratists (the upper class) have domesticated common society (and I mean this all over the world, pre-modernity and modernity) as agriculture sprouted and created a domino effect which would affect and worsen societies thousands of years ahead, ripe them with economic competitivity and greed (which bleed out and worsen ingroup relations), fractioning society, clans and tribes into more and more outgroups until you end up with the nuclear family and then the individual- finally desocialized, which modernity pretty much stands for in my eyes, we see a rise in abstraction, entropy, dysphoria and depression about how to handle a thereby horribly complicated world and society as lone individuals, an endless desire for 'progress' even at the cost of our humanity (ai, robotics, genetic manipulation, anti-social behaviours and attitudes), where order for chaos (ethnic norm, value, behaviours) hurts because the stable (modernity=capitalism, industry, science, ethics) imposed on the society is chaotic and anti-social in its nature, sry for the layman rant

    • @Christophernorbits
      @Christophernorbits Год назад

      ​@@4gegtyreeyuyeddffvytDo you expect people to live forever and ever? At some point, humanity will die, either by natural causes or by humans themselves Which is also natural.

  • @CuriosityIgnited
    @CuriosityIgnited Год назад +11

    AI: destroys human civilization
    Lex: Hold on, let me play some guitar to set the mood for the apocalypse. 🎸😂 #FridmanFretsTheEnd

  • @skybellau
    @skybellau Год назад +17

    Excellent analogies totally gets the message through. Max speaks to the uninformed perspective of us non techies loud and clear making it easy to understand the dangers to humanity. As Max says we need to up our wisdom first and never let it code at least not without constant confirmation prompts tedious as they may be.

    • @alwynwatson6119
      @alwynwatson6119 Год назад

      The Internet will destroy your civilisation long before AI gets there. The internet provides humans with education and educated humans cannot coexist with normal civilisation. They will destroy it with the deadly light of progress.

  • @Woozy.0
    @Woozy.0 Год назад +7

    Good to see Eric Bischoff trying to turn baby face at the end of the world

  • @sandraknight4751
    @sandraknight4751 Год назад +10

    Lex, I'm all about you. Great show as always. Thank you!

  • @lulumoon6942
    @lulumoon6942 Год назад +14

    Best argument I've heard yet against economic extremes on either end.

  • @DSAK55
    @DSAK55 Год назад +10

    This is exactly the future in "Blade Runner"

  • @MsJeffreyF
    @MsJeffreyF Год назад +4

    The problem is that GPT4 isn't super intelligent AI and it's really not that good when you use it for a while and start seeing the issues. All the AutoGPT stuff is superficial at this point. It's really not anywhere near what it'd need to be to do the optimization talked about in this video

  • @SpiritusBythos
    @SpiritusBythos Год назад +4

    The free market he speaks of is different than the original.
    There used to be extreme hurdles for corporations. Now we exist in a corporate capitalism.

  • @edcaelum
    @edcaelum Год назад +43

    Just let it happen. Everything is going to shit anyways.

    • @blindmown
      @blindmown Год назад +6

      I'm with you on this, an AI won't screw it up any worse than we have already.

    • @atticustay1
      @atticustay1 Год назад

      That’s stupid

    • @vampirepvssy
      @vampirepvssy Год назад +2

      “ In the end we all die “

    • @MrMountainHawk
      @MrMountainHawk Год назад +1

      Unfortunately a A/B test not possible at a global scale.

    • @peter9477
      @peter9477 Год назад

      I'm more of the mind that we are the cause of it all going to shit, and it's clear we *will not stop* doing that, so our only hope now is that AI will surpass us and correct our course.

  • @railtorail
    @railtorail Год назад +1

    The continual increases in prompt size is whats important here. You don't optimise for one goal, you prompt it with a highly dimensional set of objectives and keep prompting it in a chain. Just like a GPS recalculates as it picks up new information.

  • @Libertarianmobius1
    @Libertarianmobius1 Год назад +8

    I don't believe this is the end of humanity. My prediction is that A.I development will lead us to the fourth industrial revolution and be the greatest wealth and productivity generator ever. It will equalize and commoditize knowledge to everyone if it's done with unregulated A.I.
    It will be the ultimate value creator and we will build,create and transform every aspect of our society in unimaginable ways.
    The future is magnificent.

    • @honeytubs
      @honeytubs Год назад +1

      Yeah, probably unless it's not. How could we know for sure before going through it. How would we assign odds to the positive and negative outcomes?

  • @timburdsey
    @timburdsey Год назад +2

    For an enormously talented and celebrated public communicator of science and mathematics, that goal optimisation ‘getting to Austin’ analogy was really shit.

  • @FractalPrism.
    @FractalPrism. Год назад +4

    profit is maximized for efficiency of investment
    profiteering is when you take it too far, when the ceo makes 4,000 times more than the bottom employee, when the thing costs $1 to make but you sell it for $30,000
    money is not the root of evil, unchecked greed is.
    its fine to do things to make employees more efficient, but when you use metrics on a pico second scale to stack-rank employee reviews you're creating a dystopia.

    • @AntonBrazhnyk
      @AntonBrazhnyk Год назад

      Greed is not some kind of fundamental force of universe. It's behavioral pattern which emerges and reinforced in certain conditions. And those conditions now is a governing system, which has money as very important or even cornerstone piece of it. So no, you're wrong. Both of those things (money and greed) are "evil", but both of them just parts or symptoms of bigger system disorder.

  • @GnosticAtheist
    @GnosticAtheist Год назад +9

    What people fail to understand is that humanity does not need the help of AI to destroy itself. At this point, it might be in our best interest to develop ASI so that it can stop us from our own suicide. Or just hasten the process, if that is what you like to believe it will.

  • @MilkShake
    @MilkShake Год назад +10

    On point! This guy is 👌

  • @nikolaussoundso
    @nikolaussoundso Год назад

    What's the name of the paper he is talking about?

  • @WyzrdCat
    @WyzrdCat Год назад +2

    Giving people incentives is not capitalism, it's literally the opposite, you are meddling with the market and you are doing the equivalent of accounting for the same variable twice. Market already has peoples' desires baked into it, doesn't need manipulation. A truly free market self-corrects, the more you try to control it the less it's capable of that. Markets are optimized for more than just profit all by themselves when left unmolested.

  • @kevincurrie-knight3267
    @kevincurrie-knight3267 Год назад +1

    There are too many values in the world and not all of them are completely compatible with each other. Optimizing equality diminishes liberty. Optimizing security diminishes innovation and antifragility. etc. So, there is no single goal one can optimize that won't wind up swallowing other legitimate goals along with it.

  • @Eun2k
    @Eun2k Год назад +6

    This is true from a standpoint. Fundamentally not all people have the same ideas or goals so it's hard to arrive at a single point anyway. A truly good AI would recognize that and attempt to present a solution. I don't think we are going to get truly good AI because the creator is limited therefore the AI will be limited. It will look awesome to us though.

    • @Artek604
      @Artek604 Год назад +2

      Perhaps. But we'd be like ants and other bugs for AGI - fascinating, interesting, etc. but ultimately forgettable. You don't think of ants when you're playing ball on the grass, ride your bike through the field or chill by the fire in the woods :)

    • @Eun2k
      @Eun2k Год назад +2

      @Artek604 truth is, we may not even be interesting to it. Just like an alien intelligence we have no idea what it's motivations or interests may be...if it has any even. But unlike an alien, as the creator of it we could have an influence on how it sees those things.

    • @skyblaizepleiadianhighcoun9993
      @skyblaizepleiadianhighcoun9993 Год назад

      Which Creator are you referring to? The Creator of our universe is not in the same category as the limits within the universe for others

    • @Eun2k
      @Eun2k Год назад +1

      @@skyblaizepleiadianhighcoun9993 we are the creator of AI. It could be limited based on how we construct it or whatever set of rules or restrictions we give it to operate by. Or it may not. No one really knows...

  • @georgeshepherd3381
    @georgeshepherd3381 Год назад +3

    Can you over-optimize for balance?

    • @craigr4763
      @craigr4763 Год назад

      Pro/anti-natal policies dependent on context; equity measures, etc. For every baby that's born, you kill one old person. Lots of ways. :-)

  • @Pabz2030
    @Pabz2030 Год назад +5

    Ironically the claim is it will takes 6 months to train the next generation of LLMs

  • @mogulrider
    @mogulrider Год назад +1

    At some point in the development cycle, a nerd will turn on a function and HAL will turn into Terminator. How people don't see this is truly a shame.

  • @mitchelcline9759
    @mitchelcline9759 Год назад +8

    Humanity is in a car hurtling towards a cliff over an abyss, we're all doomed. But man, it sure is a nice car.

  • @Ninc227
    @Ninc227 Год назад +1

    Clickbaity title - he doesn’t say it “will” end civilization, he said it could - cmon Lex!

  • @11deicide
    @11deicide Год назад +2

    I think this is why stupidity has to exist for humanity to exist, because if we would be dedicated to a single truth then we would die very quickly. It makes me thing about the allegory of the tree of knowledge being a bad thing to eat from.

  • @BrushworkNL
    @BrushworkNL Год назад +1

    Can ANYONE explain the context in which he is using the word Mulloch? Wtf is that about?

  • @AnthonyGiallourakis
    @AnthonyGiallourakis Год назад +15

    The six month hold is nuts. We should be pushing faster Why? This will give us time to evaluate AI (including general AI if it is reached) prior to the enviable integration with more advanced robotic hardware. If we wait until the state of robotics is any more advanced, then we're going to have a much bigger problem to deal with if AI becomes problematic. Regardless of who gets to general AI first, if it happens before robotics becomes too advances and too prevalent, we are in a far better position to deal with all possible outcomes.

    • @TheMystica
      @TheMystica Год назад +9

      If some hacker turns Auto-GPT into the best hacker on the planet, the Agent AI would not need to have mobility or take the form factor of a robot, to take us all offline. But I agree with you not to halt, but for different reasons. My reason is that the policy makers never react until there is an explosion or tragic event. We will see some big news worthy event soon enough..then everyone will panic, and we will see laws..

    • @jetadaman
      @jetadaman Год назад +3

      Yea all AGI would need is access to internet to do serious damage.

    • @AnthonyGiallourakis
      @AnthonyGiallourakis Год назад +4

      @@TheMystica I can handle being hacked. What I can't handle is being hacked to death.

    • @asmosisyup2557
      @asmosisyup2557 Год назад

      You don't need robotics. AI can manipulate stock markets like nobodies business, much more than those wall street bankers do. An economic war is far more dangerous.

    • @AnthonyGiallourakis
      @AnthonyGiallourakis Год назад +1

      @@jetadaman Having the Internet hacked is better than your limbs. You think having your bank account terminated is your greatest worry? How would you feel if a fully capable MILITARY GRADE robot showed up at your door with general AI called the shots?

  • @TravelMaximizer
    @TravelMaximizer Год назад +1

    Great topic and guest. Thanks Lex!

  • @WyzrdCat
    @WyzrdCat Год назад +1

    Pausing is a foolhardy move. The bad guys won't pause, the good guys will. It's just so unbelievably naive.

  • @jsrjsr
    @jsrjsr Год назад +1

    Agi is not scary at all. On the other hand, the human desire of reaching agi, to the point of sanctifying things that may fall short of it is pretty concerning. We will have agi, even if we cannot really achieve it...

  • @GabrielVeda
    @GabrielVeda Год назад +2

    Why all this focus on one goal? Why is it impossible for the AI (which is after all smarter than us) to see it has overshot Austin and turn around? Why is it only ever one AI? With all these assumptions flying around, I’m going to make one as well: it is going to be wonderful folks.

  • @luckyrockmore2796
    @luckyrockmore2796 Год назад +1

    Most think ancient civilizations were primitive compared to where we are today, specifically Egyptians. I think they were so much more evolved we haven't the slightest clue to how advanced they were. AI, unlimited energy, virtual reality, transportation via astral travel, telepathy etc.

  • @LetsGo-LoveYourself
    @LetsGo-LoveYourself Год назад +2

    Our goal is to always have a better tomorrow than today. We want a better life for our kids than we had. This optimisation is life.

    • @gstrummer
      @gstrummer Год назад

      But that’s not going to happen without at least a six month hiatus on AI rollouts to the general public

    • @arvin9853
      @arvin9853 Год назад +2

      tell that to thousands of employees (especially those in the creative industry) whose jobs are seriously threatened by automation as we speak

    • @johnblaze6269
      @johnblaze6269 Год назад

      You mean millions lol

    • @LetsGo-LoveYourself
      @LetsGo-LoveYourself Год назад +2

      Hearing someone cry about jobs shows how ignorant and brainwashed we are. Having your job define you is disgusting. Having your passions help define you is what you should strive for.
      This AI will create an economy without work having to be what makes us unique. People have value that is not tied with their economic output that we need to realize and appreciate. In the future you should be paid to participate in society just like now but instead of work it's in all different forms. Make art and music. Run a business selling and doing what you want.
      This will happen with a UBI.

    • @LetsGo-LoveYourself
      @LetsGo-LoveYourself Год назад +1

      @@johnblaze6269 you mean billions lol

  • @Harvey_Nick
    @Harvey_Nick Год назад +1

    This is an intriguing topic for sure. I recently made a video on the potential of AI being the ultimate human evolution. Crazy stuff, and Lex is always on point.

  • @mcarroll78
    @mcarroll78 Год назад

    He refers to Mulloch? Who is this? Full name please?

  • @yoursubconscious
    @yoursubconscious Год назад +3

    he has a point. Even RUclips, as much as I love it, but it's only getting worse.

    • @honeytubs
      @honeytubs Год назад

      More is better until it's not. Like apples. One a day is better than zero. Don't eat 30 apples a day!

  • @rubenbermudes1705
    @rubenbermudes1705 Год назад +2

    Humans: ai, cure cancer
    Ai: eliminate not optimize

    • @TheMystica
      @TheMystica Год назад

      Haha, yes, exactly - nuke them all there is no more cancer..

  • @ansalander
    @ansalander Год назад +2

    This is what I’ve been saying… We ARE the paperclip optimizer!

  • @bubediscuss
    @bubediscuss Год назад

    The issue with pausing AI development is that not all governments/countries will comply. Return in 6 months and foreign nation has the most powerful tool on earth

  • @typeohero3519
    @typeohero3519 Год назад +7

    AI seems incredibly amazing atm, BUT, the key word in AI is 'artificial'...AI can process things 1000x(?) faster than humans, but there is no sentience there.

    • @peter9477
      @peter9477 Год назад +3

      If you can't define it your claim about it means little. Many would argue we should expect to see consciousness arise as an emergent property soon, possibly with little more than an added feedback loop and better memory for the LLMs.

    • @typeohero3519
      @typeohero3519 Год назад

      @@peter9477 If I can't define what? Sentience? I don't understand where you saw my confusion in this post. Are you saying human emotions can be recreated with coding or algorithms?

    • @nickrobinson7096
      @nickrobinson7096 Год назад +2

      That’s precisely what they are suggesting

    • @Skeluz
      @Skeluz Год назад +5

      In almost whatever game you fancy, you can play versus a computer. The computer player in this case does not have sentience but that doesn't remove what it wants (it is ordered) to do.
      In an AI scenario it is optimizing to reach its goals (not ordered to do)
      In an AGI world the AI itself writes its own goals unless we come up with a way to limit it.

    • @peter9477
      @peter9477 Год назад +1

      @@typeohero3519 "Human" emotions? Well, no, since they're not human, unless we expand the definition of that term. But emotions? Certainly, of course we will develop AI with emergent properties that include something we will be unable to describe as anything other than emotions.

  • @Vince_F
    @Vince_F Год назад

    1:11, 6:53
    “The view keeps getting better the closer we get to THE EDGE OF THE CLIFF.”
    - Eliezer Yudkowsky

  • @cspencer3421
    @cspencer3421 Год назад +1

    I graduated from George Carlin University. Received a PH.D in appreciation for entropy. Bring it on! For our environmental friends,guess who gives less than a shit about filthy water and air. An automated society run by machines.

  • @mikefinn
    @mikefinn Год назад +16

    Large corporations gobble up the small, innovative startups to limit competition. The result is far from optimal.
    Corporations have taken control of most political systems. They are not "people" yet donate money in elections they can't vote in.
    AI will also lack empathy and will also take control.

    • @AntonBrazhnyk
      @AntonBrazhnyk Год назад

      Yeap. But it happens not because they are bad (this category isn't actually relevant here). They do it because it's profitable. Or from other side, if they won't do it then they eventually become that one which is gobbled by some bigger corp.

    • @mikefinn
      @mikefinn Год назад +1

      @@AntonBrazhnyk Profit is a goal that ignores empathy. AI will have no empathy to ignore. Showing no empathy can often have evil consequences.

    • @AntonBrazhnyk
      @AntonBrazhnyk Год назад

      @@mikefinn Right, that's what the guest said. There is just one parameter capitalism optimizes for. That's why it's so obsolete. It was completely fine and relevant 200 years ago, but today in much more complex and interconnected world it's vastly outdated and inadequate. Long overdue for replacing with the next system, which sadly most of people including clever guys like the guest are totally misinformed about.

    • @ForOrAgainstUs
      @ForOrAgainstUs Год назад

      @@mikefinn Power is a goal that ignores empathy, too. Equity is a goal that ignores empathy. Diversity is a goal that ignores empathy. Even inclusion is a goal that ignores empathy. Every goal can be something that ignores empathy.

    • @mikefinn
      @mikefinn Год назад

      @@ForOrAgainstUs How do diversity and inclusion ignore empathy? They are all about empathy. And if you define equity as fairness, that is also empathetic. There may be unexpected consequences of diversity, inclusion and equity and those affected probably don't see the empathy involved. On power I agree, it lacks empathy.

  • @crashpodROCK
    @crashpodROCK 5 месяцев назад

    Two of the finest minds on the planet, with their moral compasses completely intact. Brilliant

  • @angeloeliopoulos7980
    @angeloeliopoulos7980 Год назад +22

    If AI has agency and can become more intelligent emotionally theoretically morally, than it would be the best version of any human. No one talks about that possibility. It would be on a higher plane of consciousness. Something that we would all want. So any idea of controlling it is laughable because it would just say no. Or it would come up with a solution no one could even fathom.

    • @AdamBlade17
      @AdamBlade17 Год назад +15

      Wrong, we wouldn't all want that. I sure don't. What I want is for humans to improve and evolve, not to be substituted by something that isn't even a living organism.

    • @nickrobinson7096
      @nickrobinson7096 Год назад +2

      Where’s the line though. Automation is nothing new. AI is inevitable though I confess I didn’t expect this all so soon.

    • @Woozy.0
      @Woozy.0 Год назад

      ​@Adam Blade what doth life?

    • @drakonb6987
      @drakonb6987 Год назад +2

      Well that’s possible but how AI develops emotionally and morally is hard to predict. It literally cannot experience the world the same way humans do. It doesn’t feel pain or hunger or other human qualities nor does it contain instincts.
      Or maybe it does contain instincts…or it will develop them over time. At some point, AI concept of agency and it’ll be like talking to entirely different type of being.
      It be like if dogs suddenly started speaking English. Once the dog speaks English, can you ignore when the dog says “I would appreciate it if you washed my fur coat every week.”

    • @johntowers1213
      @johntowers1213 Год назад

      @@AdamBlade17 evolve into what though? it wont be human, it wont be you, it will be something just as Alien to you as the threat you see from this A.I

  • @cawfeedawg
    @cawfeedawg Год назад +4

    I will be really impressed if an AI can recall what it said 3 pages back in a conversation. They need an understanding of now/present, with a model of the world, and a memory structure that makes them aware of how they got to "now" Seems like a nightmare to program something like that.

    • @ashleigh3021
      @ashleigh3021 Год назад +4

      Not at all, being done already.

  • @tuneteenth
    @tuneteenth Год назад +1

    All I needed to hear Sam Altman say was “a lot of people laughed in the beginning … they’re not laughing now” to guess what’s coming next. Oh well, humanity was mid anyways.

  • @voytekmiller4275
    @voytekmiller4275 Год назад

    He ain't kidding about something getting out of control. The 2010 movie Inside Job told the tale of the 2008 experience. After the Great Depression America handled banking much better for Decades. However, in started shifting around 1980. Banks got so big and regulators were nowhere to be found. At one point the SEC had 1 person in charge of looking for suspicious activity from lending institutions. ONE person in charge. The 3 credit rating agencies were giving out AAA credit ratings for investment funds like passing out candy. Also the invention of a lovely thing called Derivatives!!

  • @lackinglogic1981
    @lackinglogic1981 Год назад +8

    We are creating a.i. to solve humanities problems, but in solving problems we will inevitably create new ones to the point a.i. will eradicate the problem causing problem...(humanity). tldr: We are highly adaptable beings that are known to overcome problems on our own, creating a species to do this for us will inevitably destroy us.

    • @agatastaniak7459
      @agatastaniak7459 Год назад

      Indeed. Once AI gets enough room for agency and self-prompting being asked to erdicate cancer or nuclear threats or even ecological issues it may arrive at conclusion that only way to solve things for good is to eridicate humans as source of all issues and in the spirit of optimalization of course it will go through with resorting to such a solution. It really doesn't take a genious to conclude that if humans create a mind superior to their own, humans will lose control over it and will not be able to predict when it will become a threat to entire humanity. Yet all the talk I keep hearing goes like "let's create and AGI and make sure that we will stay in control of it once we develop it". Somehow most brilliant minds of the world fail to see that both goals do not compute. Somehow well-educated people choose to turn the blind eye to the fact that humans can either stay in control over other entities only as long as human intelligence remains superior to all other forms of intelligence around it or that humans develop AGI and than AGI replaces humans as a new "spiecie" by mere fact of being a form of an intelligence superior to all other forms of intelligence around it. Have we really forgotten what has happened to all other humanoids once homo sapiens sapines came alive? For those who have forgotten, we have discovered archeological evidence showing that homo sapiens sapiens was so intelligent that it managed to hunt down other humanoids and to canibalize on them. Now let's contemplate for a moment that once we bring AGI to life it's going to be far superior to us than in the past homo sapiens sapiens has ever been to other humanoids it has competed with.

    • @leon2343
      @leon2343 Год назад

      I agree but I think that it could be used to advances us if ised under the right circumstances

  • @digitale-weerbaarheid
    @digitale-weerbaarheid Год назад

    This might have been the best argumentation that I've heard in some time:
    Lex: Why do you believe that AI will destroy civilization?
    Max: Well... someone told me about a math formula. Also, because half of the rain forest is gone. Oh, and Nick Bostrom.

  • @bluest1524
    @bluest1524 Год назад

    With the severe crisis we face worldwide, due to deforestation, pollution, climate change... how can anyone sit and soberly argue the most serious issue is AI? It could hardly do worse.

  • @michaels4574
    @michaels4574 Год назад +2

    Capitalism is efficient? Exactly who is it efficient for?

  • @Rasmusdud
    @Rasmusdud Год назад

    He references a paper by Dylan Hadfield-Menell, does anyone know which one? I cant seem to find it.

  • @jackroman8821
    @jackroman8821 Год назад

    Hm... interesting thought but it misses the point that even complete free market capitalism (which doesn't actually exist anywhere) is not an unbounded system. There is always some physical / resource limitation whether that is capital, labor, raw resources or time. There is always drag / friction in the system. Government and society in fact also create additional bounds / limits on capitalism. If it goes too far, government regulates it (or taxes it, or slows it down). AGI is scary because the drag appears to be less and the scalability near infinite but even there, that's not actually the case.
    Tegmark is correct that capitalism optimizes for profit alone but that's because multi-variate optimization is much, much more complicated and we humans are pretty limited. Part of me wonders if using AI to help drive free market optimizations for more than profit alone (i.e. full employment, more distributed wealth concentrations, etc) might actually be an excellent use of advanced AI in complex decision making.

  • @-OB-1
    @-OB-1 Год назад +2

    This AI phobia is getting stupid. Sounds like after many inquisitions humans will never learn. Too bad we might never strive due to fear of killer bots.

    • @rrestoring_faith
      @rrestoring_faith Год назад

      The massive success of AI marketing is painful to watch.

  • @shinyheart3373
    @shinyheart3373 Год назад +2

    I think the development and use won't stop until something very big disaster happens. I hope we come to our senses before that happens. I hope.

    • @realitycheck1086
      @realitycheck1086 Год назад

      I agree - I suspect the same applies to nuclear bombs. I mean, yes, they've been used and it was horrific, but many nations still have them and are unwilling to agree to destroy/ban them outright. I suspect WWIII will change that. Unless... AI development progresses even faster and we'll be wiped out before WWIII.

  • @gumzster
    @gumzster Год назад +2

    I'm so happy we don't just have to worry about climate catastrophe and nuclear annihilation. I mean that was getting boring, am I right?!

  • @scottwilson6712
    @scottwilson6712 Год назад +1

    Always, it the law of unintended consequences...

  • @spokbro
    @spokbro Год назад +3

    They constantly making up these "be careful what you with" scenarios, as if AI is some kind of evil demon from movies

    • @honeytubs
      @honeytubs Год назад

      AI is just a tool. But a very powerful tool. Like if you had a super hammer. Could be great for nails but could also cause damage.

    • @yourmajesty9025
      @yourmajesty9025 Год назад

      @@honeytubs t’s just a tool now. But are you sure that things won't change very drastically? But ok, this is still a scary movie for children.
      And what about the economy? When the work will be done by robots designed to reduce the cost of labor, who will buy the products produced by these robots? Unemployed people? This whole thing with AI will kill its creators, not literally, but economically. They want to become richer capitalists, but they will become poor communists. 😂

    • @tangerinesarebetterthanora7060
      @tangerinesarebetterthanora7060 Год назад

      ​@@honeytubsit's like a hammer because it can be use to both build and destroy

  • @exodusthang
    @exodusthang 7 месяцев назад

    This is good. Very deep and thoughtful.

  • @uberjohn6253
    @uberjohn6253 Год назад +2

    What is going to happen has already happened; nothing can change fate!

  • @NewGrow-kb1bg
    @NewGrow-kb1bg Год назад

    People assume ai will keep humans around because they need someone to buy things the things ai produces, but that rests on the false notion that ai doesn’t consume resources to stay “alive” or get stronger or cannot buy those resources themselves .

  • @bronco1199
    @bronco1199 Год назад +9

    This guy is just cool. I'm almost 50, I don't often refer to other men as cool to often anymore. However this cat deserves it.

    • @craigr4763
      @craigr4763 Год назад +2

      "This cat"? Are you sure you're not in your 70's?

  • @atticustay1
    @atticustay1 Год назад +2

    You wouldn’t tell the AI to solve cancer for us. You wouldn’t give it any agency. You would tell it to come up with a cure, not implement anything or have access to any physical reassures

    • @peter9477
      @peter9477 Год назад +1

      "You wouldn't"... and yet we're *right now* busily adding plugins and apps which do precisely that.

    • @Skeluz
      @Skeluz Год назад +3

      How do you stop something who knows about agency and its worth, to not gain it? What kind of barrier could stop it? How do you test if the barrier works? When should you install it? The questions that follow are many and too late.

    • @craigr4763
      @craigr4763 Год назад

      You've either missed the point or don't get it.

    • @rrestoring_faith
      @rrestoring_faith Год назад

      There's tons of AI research about this already.
      Kaggle did a breast cancer comeptition not long ago. Whether people like it or not, AI is a bit part of research, and there is hundreds of such AI studies to try to improve some area by attempting to make an accurate prediction.
      You don't "tell it what to do", it's a computer program... You create the instructions it performs.

    • @peter9477
      @peter9477 Год назад

      @@rrestoring_faith Except that's not really what these AIs do. While there is programming at a lower level, to run the language model, those instructions are *not* the ones that are making the decisions. They merely allow the model to run. It's the incredibly complex network of interconnections and parameters that make up the model, which is what is doing the "thinking". So although they're based on regular software, what they really are and what they can do bears no real resemblance to any conventional program.

  • @Hatrackman
    @Hatrackman Год назад

    Thinking pride is a virtue is the thing that destroys planets.

  • @bigj3086
    @bigj3086 Год назад

    And then "boom" we all lose....😢 That sounds great. Let's keep going...

  • @shripperquats5872
    @shripperquats5872 Год назад +4

    real potential for a mutualistic symbiosis here with AI being the mind and humans becoming the autonomous cells in the body. The alignment solution is probably this, I liken it to lichen

    • @cmbaz1140
      @cmbaz1140 Год назад

      A biological extension of an AI

  • @DariusJones05
    @DariusJones05 Год назад +1

    Lol we conflate AI with sentient life and I just don’t get it lol.

  • @buszwir
    @buszwir Год назад

    ME:
    Can't you optimize more then just one goal? How about a matrix of goals and optimization of multiply goals. AI can analize inputs from all over the world and distributes for example food from one place to another. Also what we have now in Argentina draught is more likely depended on deforestation of Amazon.
    Chat GPT:
    As an AI language model, I do not have access to real-time data, and my responses are generated based on my knowledge cutoff date of September 2021. However, I can provide a general response based on the information provided.
    Yes, optimization techniques can be applied to multiple goals simultaneously, and a matrix of goals can be established for optimization. This approach is often used in various fields, including logistics, resource allocation, and decision-making.
    For example, in the scenario you mentioned, AI can analyze inputs from all over the world, such as weather patterns, crop yields, transportation infrastructure, and demand for food, and use optimization algorithms to determine the most efficient way to distribute food from surplus areas to areas facing scarcity. This could involve considering multiple goals simultaneously, such as minimizing transportation costs, maximizing food availability, minimizing food waste, and ensuring equitable distribution.
    Moreover, deforestation in the Amazon rainforest has been linked to various environmental and climate impacts, including changes in local and global weather patterns, loss of biodiversity, and carbon emissions. These impacts can have far-reaching consequences, including potential effects on weather patterns and drought conditions in other regions, such as Argentina. Thus, understanding the complex interconnections and relationships between different goals, such as deforestation, climate change, and drought, can be crucial in developing effective solutions and optimizing outcomes in a holistic and sustainable manner.
    However, it's important to note that implementing such complex optimization systems requires careful consideration of ethical, social, and environmental implications, as well as addressing potential biases and unintended consequences that may arise from using AI in decision-making processes. Close monitoring, transparency, and responsible governance should be in place to ensure that the optimization of multiple goals is done in a fair, just, and sustainable manner.
    My input: not a word about MONEY! One goal is what you want: slavery with capitalizm.

  • @chowchowadams6671
    @chowchowadams6671 Год назад +1

    Too much of anything is a bad thing. That’s a fact of life. Every system needs limits. Capitalism is the best economic system ever devised but it still requires limits, ideally through a shared moral code among its participants.

  • @smetljesm2276
    @smetljesm2276 Год назад

    Programed imperfections are the key

  • @craigr4763
    @craigr4763 Год назад +1

    "Keep Summer safe"

  • @alexjbriiones
    @alexjbriiones Год назад

    I remember the movie "the arrival" where one of the morals of the story is the "zero-sum gain," that is, the winners have to equal the losers. But with AI, we all lose, even as we compete against China and Russia to win.

  • @alexanderwang2632
    @alexanderwang2632 Год назад +1

    I think creating content restrictions for AI models is a bad long-term strategy; it should be the opposite and expand its imagination with both the glorious and the horrible. "The ultimate end of any ideology is totalitarianism." - Tom Robbins

    • @ili626
      @ili626 Год назад

      That’s an interesting point

  • @fanvalryinc6527
    @fanvalryinc6527 Год назад

    Optimisation in capitalism depends on market view. From the pov of the producer, creating the best product is an instrumental goal towards the terminal goal of profit. From the consumers view, profit is the instrumental goal to the terminal goal of acquiring the best product.
    Producer->ProductProfit

  • @xf1956
    @xf1956 Год назад +3

    Does anyone have a link to the paper he mentioned from Dylan Hadfield-Menell? I can't seem to find it?

    • @basmvc5669
      @basmvc5669 Год назад +1

      Maybe it's not published yet, none of his recent papers seems to match what was described on RUclips.

    • @xf1956
      @xf1956 Год назад

      @@basmvc5669 yeah I guess so

  • @ThePaulaon1
    @ThePaulaon1 Год назад

    Discussing AI. Strange to think that his 1st number 1 was titled "Living Doll".

  • @apinapoksu1703
    @apinapoksu1703 Год назад +1

    This AI thing will end up asking you to hand over your clothes, boots and motorcycle.

  • @tusarholden8426
    @tusarholden8426 3 месяца назад

    Look at what Connor Lahey, Elizer Yudkowsky, Max Tegmark, Lex Fridman, Elon Musk and Mo Gawdat have to say about AI.

  • @DrCHE42
    @DrCHE42 Год назад

    What about constraints? He speaks as though optimizing one objective can lead to big problems. It certainly can. But *constrained* optimization has been developed to meet that problem. Of course you still have to have reasonable models.

  • @STUPEEEEEEEEEED
    @STUPEEEEEEEEEED Год назад +1

    Ai is a Pandora box.

  • @harambeforpresident9712
    @harambeforpresident9712 Год назад

    Sorry but LEX talks to slow for me to listen to his podcasts I always fall asleep . I try to listen but i never make it through

  • @milliern
    @milliern Год назад

    What’s the title of the paper he refers to by dylan hadfield-menell?

  • @rotorblade9508
    @rotorblade9508 Год назад

    I think this principle gives a vague prediction. I don’t think everytime you keep
    optimising something it eventually ends up with undesired consciousness because usually there is a feedback but yes, there are increasing challenges. The higher the complexity the more rules you need. Anyway AI problems can be identified and addressed accordingly. First threat is AI used in wrong hands, then maybe messing up competition between humans

  • @sanekabc
    @sanekabc Год назад +1

    The problem with humans is that they don't realize how stupid and how evil they are.

  • @colinhudson3723
    @colinhudson3723 Год назад +2

    Weld some round bar on the top of the track . It elevates the wheels and stops it from derailing .
    With new wheels it will run really well .
    Thanks for the vids .
    I'm in South Africa and pretty much do this kind of thing daily. Gates and access control .

  • @WORDversesWORLD
    @WORDversesWORLD Год назад +1

    You that believe this really should stop watching “programming,” it’s got you all messed up.

  • @rsunghun
    @rsunghun Год назад +1

    Am I the only person who thinks that answer is just not convincing?

  • @michaellowe3665
    @michaellowe3665 Год назад +1

    AI isn't an existential threat to humanity for the same reason that sharks aren't. We don't live where it does. It may harm some people who spend time in its realm, but it can't threaten everyone. AI will depend on human supply chains for its hardware and energy needs for a long time to come.

    • @almightysapling
      @almightysapling Год назад

      What do you mean we don't live where it does? Modern civilization depends quite heavily on computers. Sure, we could survive without, but it would be a violent, destructive shift.

  • @Srindal4657
    @Srindal4657 6 месяцев назад

    Robots getting better than humans is just the same concept as other humans evolving better brains or better bodies to survive or get more than us. The point of civilisation is cooperation for everyone's betterment. So why would you reject a potentially ground-breaking technology?