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Megathreat: The Dangers Of AI Are Weirder Than You Think | Yoshua Bengio

Tom Bilyeu's Impact Theory

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The Limits of the Neural Network

Neural nets are much more parallel than the good old CPU, but much less parallel than the brain. It's energy wise it's like a huge waste compared to the brain as I said earlier. One of the things that people find unnerving is that they don't understand what the neural network is doing. We learn something very complicated that cannot be reduced to a few formulas. These tasks cannot be easily done by traditional programming. But if you put a machine that has that can like approximate any function to some degree of precision so big, a big neural net then you don't really understand how it does it.

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