Wojciech joins us to talk the principles behind OpenAI, the Fermi Paradox, and the future stages of developments in AGI.
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Wojciech Zaremba is a co-founder of OpenAI, a research company dedicated to discovering and enacting the path to safe artificial general intelligence. He was also Head of Robotics, where his team developed general-purpose robots through new approaches to transfer learning, and taught robots complex behaviors.
Connect with Wojciech:
Personal website: https://wojzaremba.com//
Twitter: https://twitter.com/woj_zaremba
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Topics Discussed:
0:00 Sneak peek and intro
1:03 The people and principles behind OpenAI
6:31 The stages of future AI developments
13:42 The Fermi paradox
16:18 What drives Wojciech?
19:17 Thoughts on robotics
24:58 Dota and other projects at OpenAI
33:42 What would make an AI conscious?
41:31 How to be succeed in robotics
Transcript:
http://wandb.me/gd-wojciech-zaremba
Links:
Fermi paradox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox
OpenAI and Dota: https://openai.com/projects/five/
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