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AI Self-Finishing To-Do List, Podcast Kayfabe & War With Kara Swisher
My First Million
The Paperclip Optimizer Problem
The paperclip optimizer problem is basically this, the same theoretical thing. It's like any extremely powerful tool if given the wrong optimization could make very bad decisions on behalf of humanity because it would be trying to do exactly what it, what you told it to. Let's first take all the cars and we'll crush them and we'll turn them into paperclips. The whole world turns into paperclips right. And they're like, oh, these humans are standing in the way of this. I must optimize to this function. And it's like the wrong prompt. If he didn't say, don't do anything illegal, then hustle GPT might have said, well, the
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