Yashua Benjio, Jeffrey Hinton and Jan LeCun all won the 2018 Turing Award for their work on AI. In a recent interview with The Financial Times, Benjio pointed to the arms race in big tech companies as the key culprit in why things have gotten so much more dangerous. He said that disagreement among AI experts around what the right course of action was was in fact a signal that we should slow down. A report has suggested Google is working on its own dolly or stable diffusion like product for image creation. More than 1000 marketers are concerned about the future of your content as search engines implement AI chatbots.
Find the complete presentation here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWiM-LuRe6w&t=2005s
0:00 Intro
0:30 The 3 levels of the AI discussion
2:08 Yuval starts - why AI doesn't need sentience or robots to cause harm
3:49 Language as the human operating system
4:56 Why AI is categorically not like other tools before it
6:08 What are the dangers that AI in control of language represents?
7:33 Why social media provides evidence of the risk
10:14 Global coalition to slow things down
11:40 Wouldn't a pause just let autocrats get ahead?
13:05 Conclusion
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