Megathreat: The Dangers Of AI Are Weirder Than You Think | Yoshua Bengio (Replay)

May 30, 2024

Yoshua Bengio, an award-winning computer scientist known for his pioneering work in deep learning, raises alarms about the rapid development of AI. He emphasizes the need to slow down and consider the implications of conscious machines and AI trolls. The conversation dives into the evolution of neural networks, highlighting their differences from the human brain and the complexities of ethical alignment. Bengio also discusses the geopolitical race for AI technology and stresses the importance of global regulation to mitigate risks associated with powerful AI systems.

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Consciousness in LLMs

Current large language models lack many properties of human consciousness.
We lack a clear scientific understanding of consciousness, making it hard to compare.

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Theory of Consciousness

Yoshua Bengio's team proposed a theory of consciousness based on the brain's dynamical systems.
Conscious thoughts are discrete, compositional, and hard to translate into words.

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Goals vs. Subjective Experience

Machines can have goals and rewards without subjective experience.
Subjective experience is related to thoughts, potentially arising from brain-like computation.

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The launch of ChatGPT broke records in consecutive months between December 2022 and February 2023. Over 1 billion users a month for ChatGPT, over 100,000 users and $45 million in revenue for Jasper A.I., and the race to adopting A.I. at scale has begun.

Does the global adoption of artificial intelligence have you concerned or apprehensive about what’s to come?

On one hand it’s easy to get caught up in the possibilities of co-existing with A.I. living the enhanced upgraded human experience. We already have tech and A.I. integrated into so many of our daily habits and routines: Apple watches, ora rings, social media algorithms, chat bots, and on and on.

Yoshua Bengio has dedicated more than 30 years of his computer science career to deep learning. He’s an award winning computer scientist known for his breakthroughs in artificial neural networks. Why after 3 decades contributing to the advancement of A.I. systems is Yoshua now calling to slow down the development of powerful A.I. systems?

This conversation is about being open-minded and aware of the dangers of AI we all need to consider from the perspective of one of the world’s leading experts in artificial intelligence.

Conscious computers, A.I. trolls, and the evolution of machines and what it means to be a neural network are just a few of the things you’ll find interesting in this conversation.

[Original air date: 4-13-23]

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