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Roman Yampolskiy on Objections to AI Safety

Future of Life Institute Podcast

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AI's Will Be Tools for Us

Could we be talking past each other? It's definitely possible. And perhaps we should understand consciousness differently than the qualia interpretation. So a tool in my at least perception is something a human has to initiate interaction with I ask it a question it responds they give it some input it provides output. An agent doesn't wait for environment to prompt it it's already working on some internal goal generating new goals plans and even if I go away it continues this process. What is it that pushes AI's to become more like agents and less like tools?

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