
Daniel Schmachtenberger: Self-terminating Civilization (E34)
A New and Ancient Story: The Podcast
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Using Artificial Intelligence to Optimize Your News Feed
The idea is that if you had something that is way more intelligent than us in terms of its just strategic capacity to achieve a specified objective, it's a very narrow kind of intelligence we're talking about right now. And so this is what we're already applying AI to do. Like before we start to think about true general AI and we are already across many industries applying artificial intelligence to optimize fairly narrow metrics. So the chess systems competing against human systems are getting better at beating us faster than we're getting better at learning what they do to adapt. It turns the whole universe into paperclips.
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