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Rob Wiblin on human nature, new technology, and living a happy, healthy & ethical life

80,000 Hours Podcast

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Is This What You Want?

Open AI and deep mind have been trying to figure out how do you get, I guess, like machine learning systems to pull out as much information as they can from the feedback that they're getting from humans. They've made some progress, but there's still a lot of work to be done because for example, when the circumstance changes, then kind of the feedback that people have given in the past isn't potentially going to generalize to the new situation. You also want machinelearning systems to know when they should stop. So this is called courageability. The capacity for something to stop itself from like accomplishing the goal that's been specified at the right time.

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