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In Machines We Trust: A conversation with Geoffrey Hinton (Live)

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The Alignment Problem

I wish it was like climate change, where you could say, if you've got half a brain, you'd stop burning carbon. I don't know of any solution like that to stop these things taking over from us. What we really want is some way of making sure that even if they're smarter than us, they're going to do things that are beneficial for us. That's called the alignment problem. We need to try and do that in a world where there's bad actors who want to build robot soldiers that kill people. So I'm sorry. I'm sounding the alarm and saying we have to worry about this. And I wish I had a nice simple solution I could push

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