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#368 – Eliezer Yudkowsky: Dangers of AI and the End of Human Civilization

Lex Fridman Podcast

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The Shadow of Human Nature

The data set includes the full complexity of human nature. So I think that if you had alien super intelligence is looking at the data, they would be able to pick up from it an excellent picture of what humans are actually like inside. This does not mean that if you have a loss function of predicting the next token from that data set, that the mind picked out by gradient descent is itself a human. But don't you think it is has humanness a deep humanness to it in the tokens and when those tokens are read and interpreted by humans?

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