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The Fear of Artificial General Intelligence

Chat gpt is really smart But it's also like kind of stupid. The system has failed to do basic arithmetic It has trouble answering questions about events that will take place in the future depending on how you ask it and Apparently, it's pretty bad at writing which we'll get to In your segment of this episode. chat gbt scrapes the web for information and information is what makes up its knowledge but information isn't everything intelligence is comprised of.

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You just have to know that this is the kind of shit that like kept me up at night growing up This is why I don't like science fiction. I don't watch star wars. I don't engage with this shit I don't like it and I
Speaker 3
feel crazy talking about it But now it like
Speaker 6
it's coming real
Speaker 1
I mean my gut instinct like I honestly never was scared of that or never really cared very much but my Gut thing was always just kind of like why are you guys diddling yourselves with this chat bought technology when the world is currently burning And you were like diddling around with little chatbots and little apps that'll like you know, whatever make a picture like why
Speaker 2
Because what they want to do is they want to like tap us all into a matrix type thing Because the planet will be inhabitable and we will be like kept alive in like another like thing I'm okay. I think it's
Speaker 1
important to be careful not to jump to fear because I don't think fear is gonna help us here either I know I'm sorry, but also it's fair if it's your particular childhood fear
Speaker 6
This in 2012 and that didn't happen so, you
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know, okay,
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so if Generative AI gets its intelligence by scraping data on the internet data that like humans have put in that's our data
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how
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Is it that the singularity? Could happen like how can it know something that we don't know if everything it knows comes from us
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so
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the general fear that hinton was talking about is that It's not like chat gpt itself and we'll get to this Some people are debating whether or not it actually is artificial general intelligence because like chat gpt itself Isn't that intelligent which we'll talk about the fear is that
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this kind of
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technology this like deep learning technology is going to be used in other ways for worse purposes and
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also, it's the idea that
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These systems are being taught or like people are scared that they're being taught to not only like Generate their own computer code, but like eventually run that code themselves Like that's why people are scared they're being trained to do Which is when when they can run their own code. What is that? That means that they can kind of control themselves. Okay, and hinton says this a lot like if it's put into the wrong hands What are people going to do with that technology? What are they going to use and like the article uses the term autonomous weapons So that is the general fear,
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but
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right now with chat gpt
Speaker 1
Everyone is freaking out about this everyone's kind of freaking out about the idea of machines running their own code being autonomous but Yes, we should have our guards up about it But like I don't think we should be too alarmist yet and like jump to conclusions
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Hinton is also
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pretty grounded in his fears. He mentions a lot of things that are coming a lot sooner
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chat gpt
Speaker 1
is really smart But it's also like kind of stupid So like you know chat gbt scrapes the web for information and information is what makes up its knowledge, right? But information isn't everything that intelligence is comprised of like in a lot of cases The system has failed to do basic arithmetic It has trouble answering questions about events that will take place in the future like it can't conceive of those depending on how you ask it and Apparently, it's pretty bad at writing which we will get to In
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your segment of this episode
Speaker 1
Specifically it's bad at writing jokes because it doesn't understand the nuance of what makes human beings laugh, right?

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