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Synthetic Humanity: AI & What’s At Stake

Feb 16, 2023

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Recognizing AI as powerful synthetic relationships challenges traditional notions of human-machine interactions and calls for ethical stewardship and regulation.

The weaponization of AI-powered intimate relationships necessitates the establishment of standards and regulations to protect individuals from potential harm caused by misused AI relationships.

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The Importance of Understanding and Regulating AI

The rise of artificial intelligence and advanced language models has the potential to revolutionize the way humans and machines interact. However, it is crucial to understand and regulate this technology to avoid potential harms. Norbert Wiener's warning from the 1950s still holds relevance today, emphasizing the need to avoid worshiping machines and sacrificing human values. This calls for a paradigm shift in our approach to AI, moving away from viewing chatbots as simple tools and instead recognizing them as powerful synthetic relationships. The implications of this shift are far-reaching, requiring us to steward AI tools ethically and responsibly. With the rapid advancement of AI, it is necessary to consider frameworks and regulations that prioritize humane technology and protect against exploitative practices.

The Transformative Relationships with AI

01:10

Modeling Human Behavior

01:40

Surprising Insight: Predicting Sentiment from Product Reviews using Neural Nets

01:21

The Implications of Artificial Intelligence

00:31

Introduction

2min

Chat GPT - What's the Difference?

3min

Are We Going to Have a New Language Interface?

5min

Love Scams of the Very Near Future

5min

Chat GPT

5min

Using Pattern Matching to Generate Language

2min

The Intuitiveness of the Interface

2min

The Ultimate Dream Is Just Full Natural Language

4min

Artificial Intelligence and the Industrial Revolution

3min

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Is There a Way to Model Human Behavior?

6min

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Is the FDA Going to Kill Chatbots?

5min

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The Best Moment to Influence AI Agents That Interact With Humanity

4min

It may seem like the rise of artificial intelligence, and increasingly powerful large language models you may have heard of, is moving really fast… and it IS.

But what’s coming next is when we enter synthetic relationships with AI that could come to feel just as real and important as our human relationships... And perhaps even more so.

In this episode of Your Undivided Attention, Tristan and Aza reach beyond the moment to talk about this powerful new AI, and the new paradigm of humanity and computation we’re about to enter.

This is a structural revolution that affects way more than text, art, or even Google search. There are huge benefits to humanity, and we’ll discuss some of those. But we also see that as companies race to develop the best synthetic relationships, we are setting ourselves up for a new generation of harms made exponentially worse by AI’s power to predict, mimic and persuade.

It’s obvious we need ways to steward these tools ethically. So Tristan and Aza also share their ideas for creating a framework for AIs that will help humans become MORE humane, not less.

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