Again in Could, I had the consideration (nay, honour) to talk at HowTheLightGetsIn, an concepts pageant held yearly in Hay-on-Wye on the English/Welsh border. It was my first time in that a part of the UK, and I beloved it. There was an immense quantity of mud because of rain on the pageant floor, and plenty of concepts introduced on the talks and panels that I vociferously disagreed with (however isn’t that the purpose?).
In some unspecified time in the future, interviewer Alexis Papazoglou with the Institute for Art and Ideas ambushed me whereas I used to be trudging by means of the mud to take a seat me down for a half-hour interview about AI that I’d solely vaguely understood was going to happen, and that interview is now up on YouTube. I strongly advocate listening at 2x pace: you’ll save your self fifteen minutes, I’ll sound smarter, my verbal infelicities will probably be much less noticeable, what’s to not like?
I used to be completely unprepared and sporting a wrinkled t-shirt, however I dutifully sat within the lovely chair organized for me and shot the breeze about AI. The consequence is definitely one of many recorded AI conversations I’m happiest with, the one that may convey essentially the most of my worldview per minute. Matters embrace:
- My guesses about the place AI goes
- How I reply to skeptics of AI
- The views of Roger Penrose and the place I half methods from him
- The relevance (or not) of the quantum No-Cloning Theorem to the laborious downside of consciousness
- Whether or not and the way AI will take over the world
- An summary of AI security analysis, together with interpretability and harmful functionality evaluations
- My work on watermarking for OpenAI
Final evening I watched the video with my 7-year-old son. His remark: “I understood it, and it saved my mind busy, but it surely wasn’t actually enjoyable.” However hey, not less than my son didn’t accuse me of being so dense I don’t even perceive that “an AI is only a program,” like many commenters on YouTube did! My YouTube critics, usually, had been useful in reassuring me that I wasn’t simply arguing with strawmen on this interview (is there even such a factor as a strawman place in philosophy and AI?). After all the critics would’ve been extra useful nonetheless in the event that they’d, y’know, counterargued, fairly than simply calling me “actually shallow,” “superficial,” an “smug poser,” a “robotic,” a “chattering technologist,” “mendacity by means of his tooth,” and “enmeshed in so many defective assumptions.” Watch and resolve for your self!
In the meantime, there’s already a second video on YouTube, entitled Philosopher reacts to ‘OpenAI expert Scott Aaronson on consciousness, quantum physics, and AI safety.’ So I opened the video, terrified that I used to be about to be torn a brand new asshole. However no, this thinker simply replays the entire interview, often pausing it to interject feedback like “sure, actually attention-grabbing, I agree, Scott makes an important level right here.”
Replace: You may as well watch the same interviewer grill General David Petraeus, on the similar occasion in the identical overly massive chairs.
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