Future of Life Institute Podcast

Connor Leahy on the State of AI and Alignment Research

Apr 20, 2023

52:07

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Connor Leahy

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Introduction

2min

The Importance of Competence in Startups

2min

The Incompetence of Technology Giants

2min

The Importance of Tactic Knowledge in AI Research

2min

The Importance of Tactic Knowledge in Chip Production

2min

Chat GPT and GPT For: The Race to AI

2min

The Bad Meme of AGI

2min

How to Predict When an AI Model Will Publish a Scientific Paper

2min

The Future of AI

2min

10.

The Future of Alignment

2min

11.

The Core Problem of Alignment in RLETF

3min

12.

The Pros and Cons of R.L.H.F.

3min

13.

The Importance of Alignment in Artificial Intelligence

2min

14.

The Importance of Security Mindset in Super Intelligent Systems

3min

15.

Mechanistic Interpretability: A Paradigm of AI Safety

3min

16.

The Limits of Interpretability Research

2min

17.

Paul Cristiano and Elia Isyukowski's Research on Alignment

4min

18.

The Importance of Deconfusing Agency and Alignment

2min

19.

The Future of Computing

3min

20.

Will Public Attention to AI Make AI Safer?

3min

21.

The Counterproductive Overreactions of OpenAI to AI Safety Research

2min

22.

AI as a Military Technology?

4min

Connor Leahy joins the podcast to discuss the state of the AI. Which labs are in front? Which alignment solutions might work? How will the public react to more capable AI? You can read more about Connor's work at https://conjecture.dev Timestamps: 00:00 Landscape of AI research labs 10:13 Is AGI a useful term? 13:31 AI predictions 17:56 Reinforcement learning from human feedback 29:53 Mechanistic interpretability 33:37 Yudkowsky and Christiano 41:39 Cognitive Emulations 43:11 Public reactions to AI Social Media Links: ➡️ WEBSITE: https://futureoflife.org ➡️ TWITTER: https://twitter.com/FLIxrisk ➡️ INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/futureoflifeinstitute/ ➡️ META: https://www.facebook.com/futureoflifeinstitute ➡️ LINKEDIN: https://www.linkedin.com/company/future-of-life-institute/

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