Effective Altruism: Ten Global Problems – 80000 Hours

Four: Brian Christian on artificial intelligence

Oct 3, 2021

02:54:28

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Is There a Risk of Uncertainty in Machine Decision Making?

02:55

Dopomen Nurons

04:00

Are Human Questions First?

01:35

Introduction

2min

The Alliment Problem

2min

Ai Safety and Machine Learning Ethics - A Review

4min

Is the Future Going to Be Good?

2min

GPT

2min

Using a G I in the Cloud?

4min

Is Linearity in the Output a Problem?

2min

How to Train a Neural Network?

5min

How Can You Learn From Your Own Estimate?

2min

10.

Dopomen Nurons

4min

11.

How Can Reinforcement Learning Go Off the Rails?

2min

12.

Reward Actions, Not Actions of the Agent

2min

13.

Are Human Questions First?

2min

14.

The Problem of Sparse Rewards

4min

15.

Tree Senility

2min

16.

Resonance Learning in the Real World

2min

17.

How to Get Intelligent Behavior From a Eyes That Lack Curiousness

3min

18.

How Do You Overcome This Problem of Sparsity?

2min

19.

Can It Get Into a TV Screenana Game?

3min

20.

The Effect of TV on the Visual System

2min

21.

The Human Brain Is Like That, Right?

3min

22.

A Novelty Seeking Agent - What Happens When You Play a Computer Game?

2min

23.

Is It Possible to Create a Knowledge-Seeking Agent?

3min

24.

Is It Safe to Build a Super Intelligent Knowledge Finder?

2min

25.

Do What I Do

2min

26.

Do You Know How to Model a Car?

2min

27.

How to Automatically Identify Bad Drivers?

3min

28.

Data Set Aggregation

3min

29.

Imitation Is a Faily Mode of Imitation

4min

30.

The Secret of Our Success

3min

31.

Alpago Zero and Its Neural Networks

3min

32.

Can You Guess What You're Going to Do?

3min

33.

Learning by Imitating

2min

34.

How to Do Things That We Can't Do, Right?

6min

35.

Is It Possible to Teach Using This Method?

2min

36.

How to Optimize Notification Delivery for a User Engagement Model?

2min

37.

I Don't Want to Drink Alcohol

3min

38.

Is There a Reward Function?

2min

39.

How to Deactivate Part of the Network With Every Training Example

3min

40.

Why Is It So Important to Have Ai Driven Cars?

3min

41.

Is There a Risk of Uncertainty in Machine Decision Making?

3min

42.

Is the Auto Pilot Mistaken?

2min

43.

Is There a Difference Between Human Behavior and Human Irrationality?

3min

44.

Ai Safety Grid Worlds

2min

45.

Is There a Future for I Safety?

3min

46.

Safety Research

4min

47.

Are We Learning Something Important About Intelligence and What Humans Are Doing?

5min

48.

Is It Possible to Flash That Out?

2min

49.

Climate Change Is More Analogous Than the Same

3min

50.

The Next Frontier in Social Choice Theory

3min

51.

Is There a Stop on the Way Between Deception and Deception?

2min

52.

Is There a Future for Transparency?

4min

53.

A Good Black Mirror Episode, I Gess

3min

54.

Yeye Daria on the Grando Ye, Episode Toooye Aan

2min

55.

The Longton Future - Is There a Problem?

4min

56.

I Think It's a Mistake to Go Down This Path.

2min

57.

I Don't Think It's Going to Happen Any Time Soon

4min

58.

Is There an Escapeye?

2min

59.

How to Learn a Game Engine From Data?

2min

60.

Is There Any Errors in the Book?

3min

61.

Are There Any Important Challenges That You Can Contribute To?

3min

62.

Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence

2min

63.

How to Solve a Reinforcement Learning Problem?

3min

64.

The Deep Cued Networks Part of Machine Learning

2min

65.

Effective Altruism and Ai Safety

2min

66.

Is There a Path Dependent to Capital Constraints in Hedge Funds?

3min

67.

The 80 Thousand Hours Podcast - Episodes 40 and 47

2min

Brian Christian is a bestselling author with a particular knack for accurately communicating difficult or technical ideas from both mathematics and computer science.

The 80,000 Hours team found his new book The Alignment Problem to be an insightful and comprehensive review of the state of the research into making advanced artificial intelligence useful and reliably safe, and we thought he'd be a great person to introduce the problem.

Full transcript, related links, and summary of this interview

This episode first broadcast on the regular 80,000 Hours Podcast feed on March 5, 2021. Some related episodes include:

#44 – Dr Paul Christiano on how OpenAI is developing real solutions to the 'AI alignment problem', and his vision of how humanity will progressively hand over decision-making to AI systems
#3 – Dr Dario Amodei on OpenAI and how AI will change the world for good and ill
#31 – Prof Allan Dafoe on defusing the political and economic risks posed by existing AI capabilities
#47 – Catherine Olsson & Daniel Ziegler on the fast path into high-impact ML engineering roles

Series produced by Keiran Harris.

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