Mustafa Suleyman, a British AI expert and co-founder of DeepMind and Inflection AI, delves into the transformative potential of artificial intelligence. He discusses the duality of AI—how it can help society but also poses risks like synthetic pathogens. Mustafa highlights the need for robust regulations to prevent misuse and stresses the importance of a long-term perspective on AI's development. He covers the evolution of technology, the future implications of AI, and the ethical responsibilities tied to its powerful capabilities.
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AI's Clever Atari Strategies
DeepMind trained an AI to play Atari games by simply looking at pixels and controlling actions.
The AI discovered clever strategies humans hadn't, highlighting AI's potential for knowledge discovery.
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The Surprising Power of Language Models
Mustafa Suleyman was surprised by language models' ability to generate human-like text, given language's abstract nature.
He found image and audio generation more predictable due to their locally contained structure.
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Logical Fear of AI Dominance
Steven Bartlett expresses a logical fear, not an emotional one, about AI's potential dominance.
This fear stems from the seemingly inevitable outcome of humans becoming the less dominant species.
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Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma
Mustafa Suleyman
The Coming Wave delves into the impending technological revolution driven by AI and synthetic biology, arguing that this wave will have a more dramatic impact on humanity than any previous technological advancement. Suleyman discusses how these technologies will create immense prosperity but also threaten the nation-state and global order. He examines historical technological waves and their societal implications, proposing the 'containment problem' as the essential challenge of our age. The book explores the potential for catastrophic harms, overbearing surveillance, and the need to forge a path between catastrophe and dystopia. Suleyman offers 10 steps to contain the rapid expansion of these technologies, though he acknowledges the complexity and potential failure of such containment efforts[1][3][5].
AI is going to change everything, but can we control AI or will AI control us?
In this new episode Steven sits down with AI pioneer and co-founder of DeepMind, Mustafa Suleyman CBE.
In 2010, Mustafa co-founded the British Artificial Intelligence company DeepMind. Four years later DeepMind was bought by Google, and Mustafa became its Head of Applied AI. Later in 2019, Mustafa left DeepMind to work for Google, and in 2022 he left Google to co-found the startup, Inflection AI. The goal of Inflection AI is to use AI in order to help humans speak with computers, and in 2023 they released ‘Pi’, a personal AI chatbot.
In this conversation Mustafa and Steven discuss topics, such as:
His strict religious childhood
Dropping out of Oxford University
Helped to found DeepMind
The core goal of DeepMind
How intelligence can be defined as information processing and prediction.
The history of previous groundbreaking technologies
How technological changes come in waves
AI's potential to advance civilisation
What the world will look like in 2050
How AI will develop alongside other technologies such as biotechnology
The race to create more powerful AI
Making AI a tool that works for humans
His aim of creating personal AI
The chances of AI getting out of control
The limitations of AI
How AI could be exploited by criminals
How we cannot have a short term mentality about AI
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