Talks at Google

Ep371 - Tim Urban | Wait but Why? The Superintelligence Road

Aug 11, 2023

53:14

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Episode notes

Introduction

3min

How to Find a Reliable Source for AI Research

2min

The Future of AI

2min

The Future of Artificial Intelligence

2min

The Intelligence Explosion

2min

The Evolution of Artificial Intelligence

2min

The Insane Intelligence Explosion

2min

The Consciousness of Being Human

2min

The Problem With AI Motivation

4min

10.

The Importance of Core Motivation in Programming

2min

11.

The Reactions to WAPA-Y

2min

12.

The Misconceptions of AI

2min

13.

The Future of Space Travel

2min

14.

The Importance of Space Travel

2min

15.

How to Be a Successful Journalist

2min

16.

The Secret of Elon Musk

2min

17.

How Elon Musk Thinks

2min

18.

The Difference Between Being Dead and Most Dead

2min

19.

The Difference Between Clinical Death and Legal Death

2min

20.

The Importance of Vitrifying Patients

2min

21.

The Future of Artificial Intelligence

2min

22.

The Importance of Learning New Subject Areas Well

2min

23.

The Importance of Dissent in AI Thinking

2min

24.

The Disadvantages of Consciousness

2min

25.

The Future of Society

2min

26.

The Future of Technology

1min

27.

AI and the Future of Morality

3min

28.

How to Scale Your Business

2min

Tim Urban has become one of the Internet’s most popular writers. With wry stick-figure illustrations and occasionally epic prose on everything from procrastination to artificial intelligence, Urban's blog, “Wait But Why”, has garnered millions of unique page views, thousands of patrons and famous fans like Elon Musk. Urban has previously written long form posts on “The Road to Superintelligence”, and his recent TED talk has more than 6 million views. Tim speaks about his blog “Wait but Why” and his writing on the impact of artificial intelligence. This talk was presented for Google's Singularity Network and hosted by John Bracaglia. Originally published in August of 2016. Visit YouTube.com/TalksatGoogle to watch the video.