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Ep 58: Sam Bowman on ChatGPT & Controlling AI

Brave New World -- hosted by Vasant Dhar

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Introduction

Vasant Dhar: I did my PhD thesis in the field of AI over 40 years ago, thanks to his mentors Herbert Simon and Harry Popol. There's no problem in AI called the control problem, which was expressed by cyberdentition Norbert Wiener in 1960,. If we use a mechanical agency with whose operation we cannot efficiently interfere once we have started it, then we had better be quite sure that the purpose put into the machine is the purpose which we really desire," he says. Sounds prophetic, doesn't it?

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