Modern Wisdom

#364 - Stuart Russell - The Terrifying Problem Of AI Control

Aug 28, 2021

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Recommendation Algorithms - Are They Really Manipulating People?

02:57

The Challenge Is Language

02:28

Is the Standard Model a Good Idea?

03:33

Introduction

4min

What Do King Midas and Artificial Intelligence Have in Common?

3min

The Challenge of Controlling AI Systems

3min

Are We Going to Face a Superintelligent?

2min

The Bottleneck in Deep Learning?

4min

Predicting the Next Word

3min

Is There a Causal Model of Language?

4min

The Challenge Is Language

2min

How to Get Artificial Intelligence Wrong?

6min

10.

The Goal Is to Build Machines That Know What the Objective Is

2min

11.

The New Model of Artificial Intelligence

6min

12.

The Utilitarian Approach

5min

13.

The Alternative to Utilitarianism

4min

14.

Utilitarianism vs Deontological Approaches

3min

15.

The Social Media Content Algorithm

2min

16.

How to Maximise Your Clicks in the Long Run

2min

17.

Are You Extreme or Predictable?

5min

18.

Recommendation Algorithms - Are They Really Manipulating People?

3min

19.

Are You Fascinated With Audience Capture?

6min

20.

Is It Enfeebled?

2min

21.

The Machine Stops

4min

22.

Allon Tese Problems

2min

23.

What Does Beneficial Mean?

3min

24.

The Importance of Uncertainty

4min

25.

A Problem Robotics Playing Football

3min

26.

Getting It Wrong Is the Standard Model, Right?

3min

27.

Is the Standard Model a Good Idea?

4min

28.

The Biggest Event in Human History

2min

29.

I Don't Want the Civilization to Be Snuffed Out

3min

30.

A, Is It Possible for That to Happen in Ai?

3min

31.

The Biggest Supercomputer Is at Ten to the 18

4min

32.

The Biggest Pandemic in Human History?

4min

33.

Human Compatibility

7min

Stuart Russell is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of California and an author.

Programming machines to do what we want them to is a challenge. The consequences of getting this wrong become very grave if that machine is superintelligent with essentially limitless resources and no regard for humanity's wellbeing. Stuart literally wrote the textbook on Artificial Intelligence which is now used in hundreds of countries, so hopefully he's got an answer to perhaps the most important question of this century.

Expect to learn how AI systems have already manipulated your preferences to make you more predictable, why social media companies genuinely don't know what their own algorithms are doing, why our reliance on machines can be a weakness, Stuart's better solution for giving machines goals and much more...

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