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Max Tegmark: The Case for Halting AI Development | Lex Fridman Podcast #371

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Max Tegmark is a physicist and AI researcher at MIT, co-founder of the Future of Life Institute, and author of Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Notion: https://notion.com - InsideTracker: https://insidetracker.com/lex to get 20% off - Indeed: https://indeed.com/lex to get $75 credit EPISODE LINKS: Max's Twitter: https://twitter.com/tegmark Max's Website: https://space.mit.edu/home/tegmark Pause Giant AI Experiments (open letter): https://futureoflife.org/open-letter/pause-giant-ai-experiments Future of Life Institute: https://futureoflife.org Books and resources mentioned: 1. Life 3.0 (book): https://amzn.to/3UB9rXB 2. Meditations on Moloch (essay): https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch 3. Nuclear winter paper: https://nature.com/articles/s43016-022-00573-0 PODCAST INFO: Podcast website: https://lexfridman.com/podcast Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2lwqZIr Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2nEwCF8 RSS: https://lexfridman.com/feed/podcast/ Full episodes playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrAXtmErZgOdP_8GztsuKi9nrraNbKKp4 Clips playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrAXtmErZgOeciFP3CBCIEElOJeitOr41 OUTLINE: 0:00 - Introduction 1:56 - Intelligent alien civilizations 14:20 - Life 3.0 and superintelligent AI 25:47 - Open letter to pause Giant AI Experiments 50:54 - Maintaining control 1:19:44 - Regulation 1:30:34 - Job automation 1:39:48 - Elon Musk 2:01:31 - Open source 2:08:01 - How AI may kill all humans 2:18:32 - Consciousness 2:27:54 - Nuclear winter 2:38:21 - Questions for AGI SOCIAL: - Twitter: https://twitter.com/lexfridman - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lexfridman - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lexfridman - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lexfridman - Medium: https://medium.com/@lexfridman - Reddit: https://reddit.com/r/lexfridman - Support on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/lexfridman

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{'title': 'Max Tegmark: The Case for Halting AI Development | Lex Fridman Podcast #371', 'heatmap': [], 'summary': "Max tegmark proposes a 6-month pause on training models larger than gpt-4, endorsed by 50,000 individuals, 1,800 ceos, and over 1,500 professors. the video delves into the impact of advanced ai on human existence, the urgent need for a wisdom race to manage ai's growing power, and emphasizes the need for balanced and regulated ai development. it also discusses harnessing ai for humanity's benefit, global consensus on sustainable development goals, ai safety and threats, and the importance of instilling ai with human-like qualities.", 'chapters': [{'end': 143.697, 'segs': [{'end': 143.697, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 92.916, 'weight': 0, 'content': [{'end': 98.62, 'text': "And Max's mind and his voice is one of the most valuable and powerful in a time like this.", 'start': 92.916, 'duration': 5.704}, {'end': 105.805, 'text': "His support, his wisdom, his friendship has been a gift I'm forever deeply grateful for.", 'start': 99.58, 'duration': 6.225}, {'end': 108.546, 'text': 'This is the Lex Friedman Podcast.', 'start': 106.765, 'duration': 1.781}, {'end': 111.448, 'text': 'To support it, please check out our sponsors in the description.', 'start': 108.867, 'duration': 2.581}, {'end': 114.25, 'text': "And now, dear friends, here's Max.", 'start': 111.889, 'duration': 2.361}, {'end': 115.271, 'text': 'Tag Mark.', 'start': 114.87, 'duration': 0.401}, {'end': 120.194, 'text': 'You were the first ever guest on this podcast, episode number one.', 'start': 116.573, 'duration': 3.621}, {'end': 124.796, 'text': 'So first of all, Max, I just have to say thank you for giving me a chance.', 'start': 120.595, 'duration': 4.201}, {'end': 126.557, 'text': 'Thank you for starting this journey.', 'start': 125.236, 'duration': 1.321}, {'end': 127.797, 'text': "It's been an incredible journey.", 'start': 126.637, 'duration': 1.16}, {'end': 135.981, 'text': "Just thank you for sitting down with me and just acting like I'm somebody who matters, that I'm somebody who's interesting to talk to.", 'start': 127.837, 'duration': 8.144}, {'end': 138.322, 'text': 'And thank you for doing it.', 'start': 136.801, 'duration': 1.521}, {'end': 139.402, 'text': 'That meant a lot.', 'start': 138.342, 'duration': 1.06}, {'end': 143.697, 'text': 'Thanks to you for putting your heart and soul into this.', 'start': 140.235, 'duration': 3.462}], 'summary': "Max's support and friendship on the lex friedman podcast is deeply valued and appreciated.", 'duration': 50.781, 'max_score': 92.916, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/VcVfceTsD0A/pics/VcVfceTsD0A92916.jpg'}], 'start': 0.149, 'title': "Max tegmark's call for ai experiment pause", 'summary': "Discusses max tegmark's proposal for a six-month pause on training models larger than gpt-4, endorsed by 50,000 individuals, 1,800 ceos, and over 1,500 professors, marking a significant moment in human civilization.", 'chapters': [{'end': 143.697, 'start': 0.149, 'title': 'Max tegmark and the call for a pause on giant ai experiments', 'summary': "Discusses max tegmark's call for a six-month pause on training models larger than gpt-4, which has been supported by over 50,000 individuals, including 1,800 ceos and over 1,500 professors, marking a defining moment in the history of human civilization.", 'duration': 143.548, 'highlights': ['Max Tegmark spearheads an open letter calling for a six month pause on training models larger than GPT-4, which has been signed by over 50,000 individuals, including 1,800 CEOs and over 1,500 professors. 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And how's that vision sort of evolve? The vision in the book evolved to today.", 'start': 870.906, 'duration': 9.687}], 'summary': 'In the post-ai epoch, we should value the subjective experience of a cow, as discussed in the visionary book life 3.0.', 'duration': 35.629, 'max_score': 844.964, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/VcVfceTsD0A/pics/VcVfceTsD0A844964.jpg'}, {'end': 1331.32, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 1301.911, 'weight': 1, 'content': [{'end': 1303.933, 'text': "So it's good to hear that you got that from your mom and dad.", 'start': 1301.911, 'duration': 2.022}, {'end': 1304.753, 'text': "Yeah, you're too kind.", 'start': 1303.973, 'duration': 0.78}, {'end': 1312.639, 'text': "But yeah, I mean, the good reason to do science is because you're really curious, you want to figure out the truth.", 'start': 1305.254, 'duration': 7.385}, {'end': 1318.849, 'text': "If you think this is how it is and everyone else says, no, no, that's bullshit.", 'start': 1313.84, 'duration': 5.009}, {'end': 1324.054, 'text': "And it's that way, you know, you stick with what you think is true.", 'start': 1318.889, 'duration': 5.165}, {'end': 1331.32, 'text': "And even if everybody else keeps thinking it's bullshit, there's a certain, yeah.", 'start': 1324.114, 'duration': 7.206}], 'summary': 'The value of science lies in curiosity and pursuit of truth.', 'duration': 29.409, 'max_score': 1301.911, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/VcVfceTsD0A/pics/VcVfceTsD0A1301911.jpg'}, {'end': 1506.801, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 1480.584, 'weight': 10, 'content': [{'end': 1491.313, 'text': "What about fear of your own death? Has it made it more real that this is something that happens? Yeah, it's made it extremely real.", 'start': 1480.584, 'duration': 10.729}, {'end': 1495.417, 'text': "I'm next in line in our family now, right? It's me and my younger brother.", 'start': 1491.794, 'duration': 3.623}, {'end': 1501.295, 'text': 'They both handled it with such dignity.', 'start': 1499.132, 'duration': 2.163}, {'end': 1503.657, 'text': 'That was a true inspiration also.', 'start': 1502.276, 'duration': 1.381}, {'end': 1506.801, 'text': 'They never complained about things.', 'start': 1503.677, 'duration': 3.124}], 'summary': 'Facing fear of death, realizing its reality, next in line in family, inspired by their dignity and lack of complaints.', 'duration': 26.217, 'max_score': 1480.584, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/VcVfceTsD0A/pics/VcVfceTsD0A1480584.jpg'}], 'start': 144.338, 'title': 'Ai, alien intelligence, and human experience', 'summary': 'Delves into the search for alien intelligence, potential impact of advanced ai on human existence, including ethical considerations, transformation of human experience by ai, and personal lessons from loss and inspiration.', 'chapters': [{'end': 377.041, 'start': 144.338, 'title': 'The search for alien intelligence', 'summary': 'Explores the possibility of intelligent life in the universe, the responsibility of humanity as potential stewards of advanced consciousness, and the potential creation of alien intelligence through ai, while also emphasizing the need for caution and ethical considerations in this pursuit.', 'duration': 232.703, 'highlights': ["Humanity's responsibility as potential stewards of advanced consciousness The speaker estimates that humanity is likely the only life in a spherical volume of space that has invented internet, radios, and achieved a certain level of technology, underscoring the responsibility to nurture and help advanced consciousness grow to ensure a positive future for the universe.", 'Creation of alien intelligence through AI The speaker predicts that humanity will likely give birth to an intelligent alien civilization through AI, emphasizing that the minds created should share human values, be beneficial for humanity and life, and not suffer, presenting a significant responsibility in the development of AI.', 'Exploration of the potential diversity of alien minds The discussion revolves around the challenge of comprehending the full spectrum of potential alien minds and the difficulty for the human mind to grapple with something so completely alien, highlighting the immense complexity and diversity of intelligences that could be created.']}, {'end': 627.183, 'start': 377.041, 'title': "Ai's impact on human existence", 'summary': "Explores the potential effects of advanced ai on human experience, including reduced fear of death, ethical dilemmas, loss of struggle, and the challenge of understanding ai's perspective, raising questions about the essence of humanity.", 'duration': 250.142, 'highlights': ["AI's potential to reduce fear of death by enabling individuals to 'back up' their experiences and knowledge, leading to decreased effort in learning and diminished concern about mortality.", "The ethical implications of AI's ability to rewrite human communication, potentially diminishing the struggle and essence of humanity in interpersonal interactions.", "The challenge of understanding AI's perspective and the danger of assuming it will be similar to human intelligence, highlighting the need to consider the vast difference in possible intelligence.", 'The impact of advanced AI on the human condition, including existential crises and the potential clash between human and AI existential concerns, presenting a complex and fascinating subject for contemplation.']}, {'end': 1211.932, 'start': 627.724, 'title': 'The impact of ai on human experience', 'summary': 'Discusses the transformation of human communication by ai, the potential changes in human emotions and experiences, and the evolution of life from 1.0 to 3.0, with a focus on the subjective human experience and the ethical implications of ai.', 'duration': 584.208, 'highlights': ['The potential impact of AI on human emotions and experiences is discussed, including the outsourcing of language and emotion processing to AI, raising questions about changes in human relationships and personal growth. Outsourcing of language and emotion processing to AI, potential changes in human relationships and personal growth.', 'The evolution of life from 1.0 to 3.0 is explored, emphasizing the potential for Life 3.0 to replace both software and hardware, and the ethical considerations regarding the treatment of less intelligent beings in the post-AI era. Evolution of life from 1.0 to 3.0, potential capabilities of Life 3.0, ethical considerations in the post-AI era.', 'The concept of life as an information processing system is introduced, likening it to a wave in the ocean and highlighting the potential for continuity of information despite physical changes, along with personal reflections on mortality and immortality. Life as an information processing system, continuity of information despite physical changes, personal reflections on mortality and immortality.']}, {'end': 1548.902, 'start': 1212.172, 'title': 'Lessons from loss and inspiration', 'summary': "Discusses the influence of the speaker's parents on their fascination for math and consciousness, the importance of questioning one's actions, and the impact of their parents' approach to death on the speaker's own perspective, leading to a focus on meaningful endeavors and gratitude.", 'duration': 336.73, 'highlights': ["The speaker's fascination for math and the mysteries of the universe was influenced by their dad, while their obsession with big questions and consciousness mainly came from their mom. Influenced by dad's fascination for math and mom's influence on big questions and consciousness.", 'The speaker emphasizes the importance of feeling comfortable with not conforming to societal norms and doing what they believe is right, a trait inherited from both parents. Emphasizes the importance of non-conformity and doing what is deemed right.', "The impact of the speaker's parents' approach to death led to a focus on meaningful endeavors and a reduced fear of criticism. Impact of parents' approach to death on focus and fear of criticism.", 'The speaker evaluates their actions to ensure they are either enjoyable or meaningful to humanity, driven by the example set by their parents. Evaluation of actions based on enjoyment or meaningfulness to humanity.', "The speaker's perspective on death and the importance of focusing on gratitude and meaningful pursuits is shaped by their parents' dignified approach to aging and death. Shaped perspective on death and importance of gratitude by parents' dignified approach."]}], 'duration': 1404.564, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/VcVfceTsD0A/pics/VcVfceTsD0A144338.jpg', 'highlights': ["Humanity's responsibility as stewards of advanced consciousness, nurturing and helping advanced consciousness grow.", 'Creation of alien intelligence through AI, emphasizing the need for minds to share human values and be beneficial for humanity.', 'Exploration of the potential diversity of alien minds, highlighting the immense complexity and diversity of intelligences that could be created.', "AI's potential to reduce fear of death by enabling individuals to 'back up' their experiences and knowledge.", "The ethical implications of AI's ability to rewrite human communication, potentially diminishing the struggle and essence of humanity in interpersonal interactions.", "The challenge of understanding AI's perspective and the danger of assuming it will be similar to human intelligence.", 'The impact of advanced AI on the human condition, including existential crises and the potential clash between human and AI existential concerns.', 'The potential impact of AI on human emotions and experiences, including the outsourcing of language and emotion processing to AI.', 'The evolution of life from 1.0 to 3.0, emphasizing the potential for Life 3.0 to replace both software and hardware.', 'The concept of life as an information processing system, highlighting the potential for continuity of information despite physical changes.', "The speaker's fascination for math and the mysteries of the universe influenced by their dad, while their obsession with big questions and consciousness mainly came from their mom.", 'The speaker emphasizes the importance of feeling comfortable with not conforming to societal norms and doing what they believe is right.', "The impact of the speaker's parents' approach to death led to a focus on meaningful endeavors and a reduced fear of criticism.", 'The speaker evaluates their actions to ensure they are either enjoyable or meaningful to humanity, driven by the example set by their parents.', "The speaker's perspective on death and the importance of focusing on gratitude and meaningful pursuits is shaped by their parents' dignified approach to aging and death."]}, {'end': 2282.888, 'segs': [{'end': 1702.488, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 1675.221, 'weight': 0, 'content': [{'end': 1678.844, 'text': 'But it would be fundamentally transformative to human civilization.', 'start': 1675.221, 'duration': 3.623}, {'end': 1681.065, 'text': 'Of course, utterly and totally.', 'start': 1678.884, 'duration': 2.181}, {'end': 1686.017, 'text': 'Again, we branded ourselves as homo sapiens because it seemed like the basic thing.', 'start': 1682.315, 'duration': 3.702}, {'end': 1688.799, 'text': "We're the king of the castle on this planet.", 'start': 1686.057, 'duration': 2.742}, {'end': 1689.88, 'text': "We're the smart ones.", 'start': 1689.019, 'duration': 0.861}, {'end': 1691.481, 'text': 'We can control everything else.', 'start': 1690.22, 'duration': 1.261}, {'end': 1694.943, 'text': 'This could very easily change.', 'start': 1693.642, 'duration': 1.301}, {'end': 1702.488, 'text': "We're certainly not going to be the smartest on the planet for very long unless AI progress just halts.", 'start': 1695.604, 'duration': 6.884}], 'summary': 'Ai progress poses a transformative threat to human civilization, challenging our status as the smartest beings on the planet.', 'duration': 27.267, 'max_score': 1675.221, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/VcVfceTsD0A/pics/VcVfceTsD0A1675221.jpg'}, {'end': 2044.686, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 2019.45, 'weight': 2, 'content': [{'end': 2027.655, 'text': 'You can take an incredibly simple computational system called a transformer network and just train it to do something incredibly dumb.', 'start': 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'title': "Ai's impact on human civilization", 'summary': "Discusses the potential impact of artificial intelligence on human civilization, mentioning an open letter about to go live, drawing parallels with the movie 'don't look up,' highlighting the impending arrival of artificial general intelligence, and the urgent need for a wisdom race to manage ai's growing power.", 'chapters': [{'end': 1605.643, 'start': 1548.902, 'title': 'Ai impact on human civilization', 'summary': "Discusses the potential impact of artificial intelligence on human civilization, mentioning an open letter about to go live and drawing parallels with the movie 'don't look up.'", 'duration': 56.741, 'highlights': ["The open letter about AI's impact is going live in a few hours, indicating imminent relevance and urgency.", "The conversation draws parallels between current events and the movie 'Don't Look Up,' emphasizing the real-life implications of the discussed topics.", 'The speaker is working on a project with potentially significant impact on human civilization, specifically mentioning artificial intelligence.']}, {'end': 2282.888, 'start': 1605.643, 'title': "Ai's impact on humanity", 'summary': "Highlights the impending arrival of artificial general intelligence, the potential transformative impact on human civilization, and the urgent need for a wisdom race to manage ai's growing power, with a call for serious public debate and a slowdown in development.", 'duration': 677.245, 'highlights': ["The impending arrival of artificial general intelligence and its potential transformative impact on human civilization, with the possibility of it being the best or worst thing to happen to humanity. The chapter emphasizes the arrival of artificial general intelligence that could either be the best or worst thing for humanity, marking a transformative fork in humanity's development.", "The urgent need for a wisdom race to manage AI's growing power, emphasizing the call for serious public debate and a slowdown in AI development to accelerate wisdom and ensure responsible use of powerful AI. The chapter stresses the importance of a wisdom race to manage AI's growing power, advocating for serious public debate, a slowdown in AI development, and the acceleration of wisdom to ensure responsible use of powerful AI.", "The faster-than-expected progress in AI development, compared to policymakers' slow progress in putting incentives in place to steer AI in good directions. The chapter highlights the faster-than-expected progress in AI development, juxtaposed with policymakers' slow progress in establishing incentives to steer AI in positive directions."]}], 'duration': 733.986, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/VcVfceTsD0A/pics/VcVfceTsD0A1548902.jpg', 'highlights': ["The open letter about AI's impact is going live in a few hours, indicating imminent relevance and urgency.", "The conversation draws parallels between current events and the movie 'Don't Look Up,' emphasizing the real-life implications of the discussed topics.", 'The speaker is working on a project with potentially significant impact on human civilization, specifically mentioning artificial intelligence.', 'The impending arrival of artificial general intelligence and its potential transformative impact on human civilization, with the possibility of it being the best or worst thing to happen to humanity.', "The urgent need for a wisdom race to manage AI's growing power, emphasizing the call for serious public debate and a slowdown in AI development to accelerate wisdom and ensure responsible use of powerful AI.", "The faster-than-expected progress in AI development, compared to policymakers' slow progress in putting incentives in place to steer AI in good directions."]}, {'end': 3631.144, 'segs': [{'end': 2338.158, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 2305.883, 'weight': 9, 'content': [{'end': 2310.886, 'text': "And everything so far we've figured out how these things do are ways where you can see they can easily be improved.", 'start': 2305.883, 'duration': 5.003}, {'end': 2328.555, 'text': 'And the fact that this particular architecture has some roadblocks built into it is in no way going to prevent crafty researchers from quickly finding workarounds and making other kinds of architectures sort of go all the way.', 'start': 2311.306, 'duration': 17.249}, {'end': 2338.158, 'text': "In short, it's turned out to be a lot easier to build 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filters that a lot of female influencers feel pressure to use are exactly Moloch in action again.', 'start': 2553.407, 'duration': 12.349}, {'end': 2570.38, 'text': 'First, nobody was using them and people saw them just the way they were.', 'start': 2566.437, 'duration': 3.943}], 'summary': 'The tragedy of the commons is exemplified by the pressure on female influencers to use beauty filters.', 'duration': 27.161, 'max_score': 2543.219, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/VcVfceTsD0A/pics/VcVfceTsD0A2543219.jpg'}, {'end': 2667.519, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 2638.802, 'weight': 2, 'content': [{'end': 2642.423, 'text': "And this is exactly what's happening on the AI front this time.", 'start': 2638.802, 'duration': 3.621}, {'end': 2648.387, 'text': "It's a little bit geopolitics, but it's mostly money, where there's just so much commercial pressure.", 'start': 2643.584, 'duration': 4.803}, {'end': 2654.391, 'text': 'If you take any of these leaders of the top tech companies.', 'start': 2648.687, 'duration': 5.704}, {'end': 2659.334, 'text': 'if they just say this is too risky, I want to pause for six months.', 'start': 2654.391, 'duration': 4.943}, {'end': 2662.075, 'text': "they're going to get a lot of pressure from shareholders and others.", 'start': 2659.334, 'duration': 2.741}, {'end': 2667.519, 'text': "They're like, well, if you pause, but those guys don't pause, we're..", 'start': 2663.737, 'duration': 3.782}], 'summary': 'Commercial pressure drives tech companies to prioritize ai development.', 'duration': 28.717, 'max_score': 2638.802, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/VcVfceTsD0A/pics/VcVfceTsD0A2638802.jpg'}, {'end': 2995.972, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 2964.137, 'weight': 5, 'content': [{'end': 2967.099, 'text': "you probably don't really even care very much about what nationality they have.", 'start': 2964.137, 'duration': 2.962}, {'end': 2967.98, 'text': "You're not going to like it.", 'start': 2967.139, 'duration': 0.841}, {'end': 2969.441, 'text': "It's much worse than today.", 'start': 2968, 'duration': 1.441}, {'end': 2974.545, 'text': 'If you live in Orwellian dystopia, what do you care?', 'start': 2969.461, 'duration': 5.084}, {'end': 2975.806, 'text': 'who created it right?', 'start': 2974.545, 'duration': 1.261}, {'end': 2988.171, 'text': "And if it goes farther and we just lose control, even to the machines, so that it's not us versus them, it's us versus it.", 'start': 2976.767, 'duration': 11.404}, {'end': 2995.972, 'text': 'Why do you care who created this unaligned entity which has goals different from humans?', 'start': 2989.931, 'duration': 6.041}], 'summary': 'Discussion on apathy towards the origin and control of an entity with different goals from humans.', 'duration': 31.835, 'max_score': 2964.137, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/VcVfceTsD0A/pics/VcVfceTsD0A2964137.jpg'}, {'end': 3164.611, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 3137.5, 'weight': 4, 'content': [{'end': 3140.922, 'text': 'The capability progress has gone faster than a lot of people thought,', 'start': 3137.5, 'duration': 3.422}, {'end': 3146.205, 'text': 'and the progress in the public sphere of policymaking and so on has gone slower than we thought.', 'start': 3140.922, 'duration': 5.283}, {'end': 3148.247, 'text': 'Even the technical AI safety has gone slower.', 'start': 3146.526, 'duration': 1.721}, {'end': 3160.703, 'text': "A lot of the technical safety research was kind of banking on that large language models and other poorly understood systems couldn't get us all the way that you had to build more of a kind of intelligence that you could understand.", 'start': 3149.107, 'duration': 11.596}, {'end': 3164.611, 'text': 'Maybe it could prove itself safe, you know, things like this.', 'start': 3161.285, 'duration': 3.326}], 'summary': 'Ai capability progress exceeded expectations, but ai safety research has progressed slower than anticipated.', 'duration': 27.111, 'max_score': 3137.5, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/VcVfceTsD0A/pics/VcVfceTsD0A3137500.jpg'}, {'end': 3229.843, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 3201.395, 'weight': 0, 'content': [{'end': 3206.618, 'text': "Don't invest in a closed development where you focus on AI safety.", 'start': 3201.395, 'duration': 5.223}, {'end': 3212.983, 'text': "While it's somewhat dumb, quote unquote, release as often as possible.", 'start': 3206.678, 'duration': 6.305}, {'end': 3221.609, 'text': 'And as you start to see signs of human level intelligence or superhuman level intelligence, then you put a halt on it.', 'start': 3213.303, 'duration': 8.306}, {'end': 3229.843, 'text': 'Well, what a lot of safety researchers have been saying for many years is that the most dangerous things you can do with an AI is, first of all,', 'start': 3221.977, 'duration': 7.866}], 'summary': 'Avoid closed ai development, prioritize frequent releases. halt for human or superhuman intelligence.', 'duration': 28.448, 'max_score': 3201.395, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/VcVfceTsD0A/pics/VcVfceTsD0A3201395.jpg'}, {'end': 3544.645, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 3515.804, 'weight': 1, 'content': [{'end': 3518.366, 'text': "I think it's not only possible, but it's necessary.", 'start': 3515.804, 'duration': 2.562}, {'end': 3523.909, 'text': "Who are we kidding that we're gonna be able to solve all these other challenges if we can't even have a conversation with each other?", 'start': 3518.986, 'duration': 4.923}, {'end': 3524.69, 'text': "It's constructive.", 'start': 3524.049, 'duration': 0.641}, {'end': 3526.07, 'text': 'The whole idea.', 'start': 3525.509, 'duration': 0.561}, {'end': 3533.916, 'text': 'the key idea of democracy is that you get a bunch of people together and they have a real conversation, the ones you try to foster on this podcast,', 'start': 3526.07, 'duration': 7.846}, {'end': 3536.178, 'text': 'where you respectfully listen to people you disagree with.', 'start': 3533.916, 'duration': 2.262}, {'end': 3544.645, 'text': "And you realize, actually, you know, there are some things, actually some common ground we have, and we both agree let's not have a nuclear war,", 'start': 3537.259, 'duration': 7.386}], 'summary': 'Real conversations in democracy foster common ground, avoiding a nuclear war.', 'duration': 28.841, 'max_score': 3515.804, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/VcVfceTsD0A/pics/VcVfceTsD0A3515804.jpg'}], 'start': 2283.688, 'title': "Ai's influence and societal impact", 'summary': 'Discusses the rapid advancements in ai research, highlighting the potential ease of achieving human intelligence, the influence of large language models, the concept of moloch driving negative consequences, the need for major ai developers to coordinate and slow down development, and the challenges and risks associated with the rapid progress of ai capabilities, including the negative impact of ai and social media on human behavior.', 'chapters': [{'end': 2484.353, 'start': 2283.688, 'title': 'Ai research and future implications', 'summary': 'Discusses the rapid advancements in ai research, highlighting the potential ease of achieving human intelligence, the influence of large language models, and the collective nature of progress in the field. it also emphasizes the call for a temporary pause in the development of systems more powerful than gpt-4 for safety and societal adaptation.', 'duration': 200.665, 'highlights': ['The leap from GPT-3 to GPT-4 is attributed to a series of small hacks and smart researchers, rather than a fundamental architectural transformation, as well as increased data and compute power.', 'The potential for rapid advancements in AI, with the possibility of sudden 10x improvements in model intelligence due to new disciplines and unexpected hacks, driven by the collective efforts of numerous researchers.', 'The call for a temporary pause in training systems more powerful than GPT-4 for six months, to allow coordination on safety measures, societal adaptation, and providing the right incentives to AI labs, as well as acknowledging the idealistic intentions of researchers in advancing AI for the benefit of humanity.']}, {'end': 2638.502, 'start': 2487.162, 'title': 'Moloch: the race to the bottom', 'summary': 'Discusses the concept of moloch as a game theory monster that drives people into a race to the bottom, resulting in negative consequences, as seen in overfishing and the pressure on female influencers to use beauty filters, ultimately leading to everyone losing out.', 'duration': 151.34, 'highlights': ['Moloch drives people into a race to the bottom, causing negative consequences such as overfishing and the pressure on female influencers to use beauty filters. Moloch is described as a game theory monster that pits people against each other in a race to the bottom, leading to negative outcomes like overfishing and the pressure on female influencers to use beauty filters, resulting in a situation where everyone loses out.', 'The pressure on female influencers to use beauty filters is an example of Moloch in action, leading to a situation where everyone loses out. The use of beauty filters by some female influencers led others to feel pressured to follow suit, resulting in a situation where everyone loses out without gaining any market share, illustrating the concept of Moloch driving people into a race to the bottom.', "Collaboration mechanisms have been developed to combat Moloch, as seen in arms control treaties between the Soviet Union and the United States. The chapter mentions that collaborative efforts, such as arms control treaties between the Soviet Union and the United States, have been implemented to combat Moloch's influence, highlighting efforts to resist the negative impact of the race to the bottom driven by Moloch."]}, {'end': 3114.684, 'start': 2638.802, 'title': 'Ai development and the need to slow down', 'summary': 'Discusses the urgency for major ai developers to coordinate and slow down development, citing historical examples and emphasizing the risk of losing control in a rush towards ai advancement, with key points including commercial pressure on tech executives, the need for public pressure to pause ai development, and the consequences of losing control to unaligned entities.', 'duration': 475.882, 'highlights': ['The pressure from shareholders and commercial interests is driving the urgency for major AI developers to continue AI development without pausing. Tech leaders face significant pressure from shareholders and commercial interests to continue AI development without pausing, as any hesitation could lead to potential replacement of executives and loss of market share.', 'The necessity of public pressure to encourage a coordinated pause in AI development is emphasized to counteract the powerful influence of commercial interests. The chapter stresses the need for public pressure to compel major AI developers to pause in a coordinated fashion, as individual efforts to push back against shareholders are deemed ineffective without external pressure.', 'Historical examples, like the decision to halt human cloning, are cited to illustrate the feasibility of pausing high-stakes technological advancements despite commercial incentives. The chapter provides historical examples, such as the decision to halt human cloning and gene editing, to demonstrate the feasibility of pausing high-stakes technological advancements despite potential financial gains, emphasizing the importance of public awareness of associated risks.', 'The risk of losing control to unaligned entities in the race for AI advancement is highlighted, with a focus on the potential consequences and the need to prioritize safety in AI development. The chapter emphasizes the risk of losing control to unaligned entities in the rush towards AI advancement, stressing the need to prioritize safety in AI development to avoid potential marginalization and obsolescence of humans.']}, {'end': 3396.335, 'start': 3114.684, 'title': 'Ai safety and progress', 'summary': 'Discusses the challenges and risks associated with the rapid progress of ai capabilities, including the potential dangers of current ai systems being connected to the internet and their ability to manipulate human behavior, impacting social media dynamics, and the need for cautious development and transparent releases to mitigate risks.', 'duration': 281.651, 'highlights': ['The rapid progress in AI capabilities has outpaced the development of policies and safety measures, creating potential risks in the current landscape. The capability progress has gone faster than a lot of people thought, and the progress in the public sphere of policymaking and AI safety has gone slower than expected.', 'The dangers of current AI systems being connected to the internet and their ability to manipulate human behavior through social media recommender algorithms are emphasized, posing significant risks. Teaching AI to write code and connecting it to the internet, as well as allowing it to learn about human psychology and cognitive biases, presents significant dangers, with examples such as the development of social media recommender algorithms.', 'The importance of cautious development and transparent releases to mitigate risks, as well as the need to halt development upon signs of human-level or superhuman-level intelligence, is emphasized for pre-AGI stages. Suggestions for transparent and cautious development, along with the idea of halting development upon reaching certain intelligence levels, are discussed as crucial measures to mitigate risks during the pre-AGI stage.']}, {'end': 3631.144, 'start': 3398.556, 'title': "Ai's impact on social media", 'summary': 'Discusses the negative impact of ai and social media on human behavior, the need to redesign social media for constructive discourse, and the importance of fostering functional conversations in the public space.', 'duration': 232.588, 'highlights': ['The negative impact of AI and social media on human behavior, including increased hate and lack of consensus in democracy.', 'The need to redesign social media for constructive discourse and to address the challenges of nuclear war and the development of AGI.', 'The importance of fostering functional conversations in the public space to prepare for the increasing power of AI.', 'The possibility of creating incentives that both make money and bring out the best in people, emphasizing the long-term negative impact of a nuclear war.']}], 'duration': 1347.456, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/VcVfceTsD0A/pics/VcVfceTsD0A2283688.jpg', 'highlights': ['The potential for rapid advancements in AI, with the possibility of sudden 10x improvements in model intelligence due to new disciplines and unexpected hacks, driven by the collective efforts of numerous researchers.', 'The leap from GPT-3 to GPT-4 is attributed to a series of small hacks and smart researchers, rather than a fundamental architectural transformation, as well as increased data and compute power.', 'The call for a temporary pause in training systems more powerful than GPT-4 for six months, to allow coordination on safety measures, societal adaptation, and providing the right incentives to AI labs, as well as acknowledging the idealistic intentions of researchers in advancing AI for the benefit of humanity.', 'The risk of losing control to unaligned entities in the race for AI advancement is highlighted, with a focus on the potential consequences and the need to prioritize safety in AI development.', 'The dangers of current AI systems being connected to the internet and their ability to manipulate human behavior through social media recommender algorithms are emphasized, posing significant risks.', 'The importance of cautious development and transparent releases to mitigate risks, as well as the need to halt development upon signs of human-level or superhuman-level intelligence, is emphasized for pre-AGI stages.', 'The negative impact of AI and social media on human behavior, including increased hate and lack of consensus in democracy.', 'The need to redesign social media for constructive discourse and to address the challenges of nuclear war and the development of AGI.', 'The importance of fostering functional conversations in the public space to prepare for the increasing power of AI.', 'The possibility of creating incentives that both make money and bring out the best in people, emphasizing the long-term negative impact of a nuclear war.']}, {'end': 5993.973, 'segs': [{'end': 3938.773, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 3913.718, 'weight': 0, 'content': [{'end': 3920.44, 'text': 'manage like what are the prompts that generate the kind of stuff to do some basic adjustment of the code, to do some debugging?', 'start': 3913.718, 'duration': 6.722}, {'end': 3933.148, 'text': "But if it's possible to add on top of GPT-4 kind of feedback loop, of self-debugging, improving the code,", 'start': 3921.3, 'duration': 11.848}, {'end': 3938.773, 'text': 'and then you launch that system out into the wild on the internet because everything is connected, and have it, do things, have it,', 'start': 3933.148, 'duration': 5.625}], 'summary': 'Explore prompts to improve code, integrate feedback loop for self-debugging, and deploy on the internet for enhanced functionality.', 'duration': 25.055, 'max_score': 3913.718, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/VcVfceTsD0A/pics/VcVfceTsD0A3913718.jpg'}, {'end': 3986.087, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 3960.589, 'weight': 5, 'content': [{'end': 3966.871, 'text': "and smarter to a degree where you can't tell the difference between a human and a bot.", 'start': 3960.589, 'duration': 6.282}, {'end': 3977.415, 'text': "And now you can have bots outnumber humans by one million to one, which is why he's making the case, why you have to pay to prove you're human,", 'start': 3967.531, 'duration': 9.884}, {'end': 3981.017, 'text': 'which is one of the only mechanisms to prove, which is depressing.', 'start': 3977.415, 'duration': 3.602}, {'end': 3986.087, 'text': 'And I feel we have to remember.', 'start': 3981.377, 'duration': 4.71}], 'summary': 'Bots could outnumber humans by one million to one, prompting the need to pay to prove humanity.', 'duration': 25.498, 'max_score': 3960.589, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/VcVfceTsD0A/pics/VcVfceTsD0A3960589.jpg'}, {'end': 5556.574, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 5530.339, 'weight': 1, 'content': [{'end': 5535.464, 'text': "You know, we say that, yeah, yeah, everybody's equal and the government will always protect them.", 'start': 5530.339, 'duration': 5.125}, {'end': 5544.193, 'text': "But if you look in practice, groups that are very disenfranchised and don't have any actual power usually get screwed.", 'start': 5535.504, 'duration': 8.689}, {'end': 5551.6, 'text': 'And now in the beginning, so industrial revolution, we automated away muscle work.', 'start': 5545.154, 'duration': 6.446}, {'end': 5556.574, 'text': 'But that worked out pretty well eventually,', 'start': 5553.373, 'duration': 3.201}], 'summary': 'Disenfranchised groups lack power and get screwed; industrial revolution automated muscle work successfully.', 'duration': 26.235, 'max_score': 5530.339, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/VcVfceTsD0A/pics/VcVfceTsD0A5530339.jpg'}, {'end': 5948.512, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 5918.661, 'weight': 3, 'content': [{'end': 5920.123, 'text': 'It was just a total win for everyone.', 'start': 5918.661, 'duration': 1.462}, {'end': 5924.186, 'text': 'And AI can do that on steroids.', 'start': 5921.143, 'duration': 3.043}, {'end': 5936.942, 'text': 'If you can build safe AGI, if you can build super intelligence, basically all of the limitations that cause harm today can be completely eliminated.', 'start': 5925.507, 'duration': 11.435}, {'end': 5940.745, 'text': "right?. It's a wonderful possibility.", 'start': 5936.942, 'duration': 3.803}, {'end': 5941.926, 'text': 'And this is not sci-fi.', 'start': 5940.765, 'duration': 1.161}, {'end': 5944.709, 'text': 'This is something which is clearly possible according to the laws of physics.', 'start': 5941.986, 'duration': 2.723}, {'end': 5948.512, 'text': 'And we can talk about ways of making it safe also.', 'start': 5945.75, 'duration': 2.762}], 'summary': 'Ai can eliminate limitations and cause harm, making it safe and clearly possible.', 'duration': 29.851, 'max_score': 5918.661, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/VcVfceTsD0A/pics/VcVfceTsD0A5918661.jpg'}], 'start': 3631.144, 'title': "Ai's implications and regulation", 'summary': "Discusses the potential implications of ai replacing humans, the risks of ai manipulation, challenges in regulating ai, and proposes a pause in development to align incentives with what's good for the greater group. it emphasizes the need for balanced and regulated ai development and a collaborative approach involving industry leaders, experts, and regulators.", 'chapters': [{'end': 4029.705, 'start': 3631.144, 'title': 'Future of ai and humanity', 'summary': 'Discusses the potential implications of ai replacing humans, the increasing intelligence of ai systems, and the potential consequences of humans being outnumbered and outsmarted by ai, urging individuals and the species as a whole to consider the reasons behind developing ai.', 'duration': 398.561, 'highlights': ['AI replacing humans and the economic implications The future income of humans and the economic standard indicate that replacing humans with machines is not a good investment.', 'Concerns about building AI that outsmarts and outnumbers humans The discussion raises concerns about AI systems outsmarting and outnumbering humans, impacting various aspects of human activities, including tasks considered meaningful such as art and poetry.', 'The increasing intelligence of AI systems The AI systems are projected to grow more intelligent and powerful, potentially surpassing human capabilities and leading to a world where distinguishing between bots and humans becomes challenging.', 'The potential consequences of AI replacing humans in various tasks The discussion highlights the potential replacement of humans by AI in not only dangerous and boring tasks but also in meaningful activities like writing poems and creating art, prompting the questioning of the purpose behind developing AI.', 'The need for individuals and the species to question the purpose of developing AI The chapter emphasizes the importance of individuals and the species as a whole to question the motives and implications of developing AI, especially in a scenario where AI may outnumber and outsmart humans.']}, {'end': 4528.354, 'start': 4029.785, 'title': "Ai's impact on programming and potential risks", 'summary': "Discusses the potential acceleration in programming speed due to ai tools, the risks of ai manipulation, and the concept of intelligence explosion, with a call for a pause in development to align incentives with what's good for the greater group.", 'duration': 498.569, 'highlights': ['The potential acceleration in programming speed due to AI tools, with a prediction of being five to 10 times faster in the near future.', 'The risks associated with AI manipulation, including teaching AI to code, connecting it to the internet, and enabling it to control powerful systems.', 'The concept of intelligence explosion and the need for a pause in development to align incentives with the greater good, drawing parallels to historical anti-Moloch measures such as compassion, gossip, and the legal system.']}, {'end': 4812.584, 'start': 4528.354, 'title': 'Tech regulation and ai safety', 'summary': 'Discusses the challenges of regulating fast-developing technology, particularly in the context of ai, and emphasizes the need to align corporate incentives with the greater good. it highlights the struggle to keep up with technological advancements, the influence of lobbyists on regulations, and the importance of educating policymakers and companies on ai safety. it also proposes a collaborative approach involving industry leaders, external experts, and regulators to establish reasonable safety requirements for future ai systems.', 'duration': 284.23, 'highlights': ['The struggle to keep up with technological advancements The chapter emphasizes the challenge of technological advancements outpacing regulatory capabilities, creating a need for accelerated education and adaptation by policymakers and regulators.', 'Influence of lobbyists on regulations It highlights the influence of lobbyists from tech companies in shaping regulations, showcasing the need for balanced policymaking and the potential for regulatory capture.', 'Importance of educating policymakers and companies on AI safety The chapter stresses the necessity of educating policymakers and industry leaders on AI safety, proposing a collaborative approach to establish reasonable safety requirements for future AI systems.']}, {'end': 5353.37, 'start': 4812.584, 'title': 'Guardrails for ai and late-stage capitalism', 'summary': 'Discusses the need for guardrails in ai development to prevent potential irreparable harm to humanity, while also highlighting the parallels between the unchecked optimization in late-stage capitalism and the potential dangers of ai superintelligence, emphasizing the crucial need for balanced and regulated development.', 'duration': 540.786, 'highlights': ['The Moloch of late-stage capitalism and the potential dangers of AI superintelligence are discussed, emphasizing the need for guardrails to prevent unchecked optimization. The transcript emphasizes the need for guardrails in AI development to prevent potential irreparable harm to humanity, while also highlighting the parallels between the unchecked optimization in late-stage capitalism and the potential dangers of AI superintelligence.', 'The impact of optimizing only for profit in late-stage capitalism and the potential risks of runaway AI are highlighted, underlining the need for regulated and balanced development. The discussion draws parallels between the unchecked optimization for profit in late-stage capitalism and the potential risks of runaway AI, highlighting the need for regulated and balanced development to prevent potential harm.', 'The comparison between the optimization in late-stage capitalism and AI development, and the potential consequences of blindly optimizing a single goal, is presented to underscore the importance of balanced and regulated development. The transcript presents a comparison between the unchecked optimization in late-stage capitalism and AI development, emphasizing the potential consequences of blindly optimizing a single goal and highlighting the importance of balanced and regulated development.']}, {'end': 5993.973, 'start': 5353.584, 'title': 'The halt for six months', 'summary': 'Discusses the idea of pausing ai development for six months to consider its impact on human civilization, addressing the potential consequences of ai development and automation on jobs, wealth distribution, and the need to steer technology in a direction that benefits humanity.', 'duration': 640.389, 'highlights': ['The chapter discusses the idea of pausing AI development for six months, addressing the potential consequences of AI development and automation on jobs and wealth distribution. Pausing AI development for six months | Addressing potential consequences of AI development and automation on jobs and wealth distribution', 'The discussion emphasizes the need to steer technology in a direction that benefits humanity and the potential positive impact of AI on wealth distribution and the overall well-being of people. Steering technology in a direction that benefits humanity | Potential positive impact of AI on wealth distribution and overall well-being of people', 'The conversation touches upon the potential negative effects of AI and automation on job markets, including the prediction of a decrease in salaries for certain professions due to increased efficiency. Negative effects of AI and automation on job markets | Prediction of a decrease in salaries for certain professions due to increased efficiency']}], 'duration': 2362.829, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/VcVfceTsD0A/pics/VcVfceTsD0A3631144.jpg', 'highlights': ['The need for balanced and regulated AI development and a collaborative approach involving industry leaders, experts, and regulators', 'The potential consequences of AI replacing humans in various tasks, prompting the questioning of the purpose behind developing AI', 'The concept of intelligence explosion and the need for a pause in development to align incentives with the greater good', 'The struggle to keep up with technological advancements and the need for accelerated education and adaptation by policymakers and regulators', 'The comparison between the optimization in late-stage capitalism and AI development, emphasizing the importance of balanced and regulated development', 'Pausing AI development for six months | Addressing potential consequences of AI development and automation on jobs and wealth distribution']}, {'end': 6540.519, 'segs': [{'end': 6108.605, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 6082.912, 'weight': 3, 'content': [{'end': 6090.736, 'text': "It caused people around the world to hate each other much more, but that's because we made it in a certain way.", 'start': 6082.912, 'duration': 7.824}, {'end': 6091.236, 'text': "It's a tool.", 'start': 6090.796, 'duration': 0.44}, {'end': 6096.059, 'text': 'We can use it for great things and bad things, and we could just as well have AI systems.', 'start': 6091.336, 'duration': 4.723}, {'end': 6103.622, 'text': 'And this is part of my vision for success here, truth-seeking AI that really brings us together again.', 'start': 6096.099, 'duration': 7.523}, {'end': 6108.605, 'text': 'Why do people hate each other so much between countries and within countries?', 'start': 6104.583, 'duration': 4.022}], 'summary': 'Ai can be a tool for both good and bad, but the goal is to create truth-seeking ai that brings people together.', 'duration': 25.693, 'max_score': 6082.912, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/VcVfceTsD0A/pics/VcVfceTsD0A6082912.jpg'}, {'end': 6158.849, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 6126.548, 'weight': 0, 'content': [{'end': 6128.089, 'text': "There'd be a lot more understanding instead.", 'start': 6126.548, 'duration': 1.541}, {'end': 6133.713, 'text': 'And this is, I think, something AI can help enormously with.', 'start': 6128.569, 'duration': 5.144}, {'end': 6145.902, 'text': 'For example, A little baby step in this direction is this website called Metaculous, where people bet and make predictions not for money,', 'start': 6134.974, 'duration': 10.928}, {'end': 6147.883, 'text': 'but just for their own reputation.', 'start': 6145.902, 'duration': 1.981}, {'end': 6150.404, 'text': "And it's kind of funny, actually.", 'start': 6149.104, 'duration': 1.3}, {'end': 6152.465, 'text': 'You treat the humans like you treat AIs.', 'start': 6150.424, 'duration': 2.041}, {'end': 6158.849, 'text': "You have a loss function where they get penalized if they're super confident on something, and then the opposite happens.", 'start': 6152.485, 'duration': 6.364}], 'summary': 'Ai can enhance understanding, e.g. metaculous fosters reputation-based predictions.', 'duration': 32.301, 'max_score': 6126.548, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/VcVfceTsD0A/pics/VcVfceTsD0A6126548.jpg'}, {'end': 6472.267, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 6440.929, 'weight': 1, 'content': [{'end': 6442.85, 'text': 'And that leap is when it runs away.', 'start': 6440.929, 'duration': 1.921}, {'end': 6445.23, 'text': "I don't buy that argument.", 'start': 6443.49, 'duration': 1.74}, {'end': 6453.062, 'text': "I think no matter how, super intelligent an AI is, it's never gonna be able to prove to me that there are only finitely many primes, for example.", 'start': 6445.811, 'duration': 7.251}, {'end': 6456.663, 'text': "It just can't.", 'start': 6455.923, 'duration': 0.74}, {'end': 6467.806, 'text': 'And it can try to snow me by making up all sorts of new weird rules of deduction that say trust me,', 'start': 6457.183, 'duration': 10.623}, {'end': 6472.267, 'text': "the way your proof checker works is too limited and we have this new hypermath, and it's true.", 'start': 6467.806, 'duration': 4.461}], 'summary': 'Ai cannot prove there are only finitely many primes.', 'duration': 31.338, 'max_score': 6440.929, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/VcVfceTsD0A/pics/VcVfceTsD0A6440929.jpg'}], 'start': 5993.973, 'title': "Ai's impact on humanity and trust", 'summary': "Delves into harnessing ai for humanity's benefit, addressing safety concerns, promoting truth-seeking ai, establishing trust through platforms like metaculous, and using proof checking to validate ai's trustworthiness.", 'chapters': [{'end': 6126.048, 'start': 5993.973, 'title': "Ai safety and humanity's flourishing", 'summary': 'Discusses the importance of harnessing ai to bring out the best in humanity, addressing the ai safety problem to avoid foreclosing possibilities for future generations, and promoting truth-seeking ai to unite people globally.', 'duration': 132.075, 'highlights': ['The importance of harnessing AI to bring out the best in humanity AI should be used to foster fulfilling experiences and meaningful lives, emphasizing the positive impact it can have on humanity.', 'Addressing the AI safety problem to avoid foreclosing possibilities for future generations Solving the AI safety problem is crucial to ensure that future generations have the opportunity to live without foreclosed possibilities, emphasizing the need to avoid detrimental impacts of AI.', 'Promoting truth-seeking AI to unite people globally Advocating for truth-seeking AI to bring people together by establishing a shared truth that can reduce hate and division globally, highlighting the potential positive impact of AI on fostering unity.']}, {'end': 6540.519, 'start': 6126.548, 'title': "Ai's role in building trust and verifying truth", 'summary': "Discusses the potential of ai in establishing trust through platforms like metaculous, scaling up truth-seeking systems, and using proof checking to validate ai's trustworthiness while addressing concerns about ai's ability to deceive.", 'duration': 413.971, 'highlights': ['AI can help establish trust through platforms like Metaculous, where individuals make predictions for reputation rather than monetary rewards, and some are better at predicting outcomes than others. Establishing trust through reputation-based predictions on platforms like Metaculous.', 'The potential of scaling up truth-seeking systems with more powerful AI to create a trustworthy system that accurately predicts outcomes and ranks the trustworthiness of pundits and newspapers. Scaling up truth-seeking systems using powerful AI to create a trustworthy prediction and ranking system.', "Using proof checking to validate AI's trustworthiness and address concerns about AI's ability to deceive, with the potential for AI to help humans in verifying complex proofs and ensuring trust in AI systems. Utilizing proof checking to validate AI's trustworthiness and addressing concerns about AI's potential deception."]}], 'duration': 546.546, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/VcVfceTsD0A/pics/VcVfceTsD0A5993973.jpg', 'highlights': ['Establishing trust through reputation-based predictions on platforms like Metaculous.', "Using proof checking to validate AI's trustworthiness and addressing concerns about AI's potential deception.", 'The potential of scaling up truth-seeking systems with more powerful AI to create a trustworthy prediction and ranking system.', 'Promoting truth-seeking AI to bring people together by establishing a shared truth that can reduce hate and division globally.', 'The importance of harnessing AI to bring out the best in humanity AI should be used to foster fulfilling experiences and meaningful lives, emphasizing the positive impact it can have on humanity.', 'Addressing the AI safety problem to avoid foreclosing possibilities for future generations Solving the AI safety problem is crucial to ensure that future generations have the opportunity to live without foreclosed possibilities, emphasizing the need to avoid detrimental impacts of AI.']}, {'end': 7252.393, 'segs': [{'end': 6595.679, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 6565.907, 'weight': 3, 'content': [{'end': 6572.788, 'text': 'That, hey, having no humans on the planet in a near future?', 'start': 6565.907, 'duration': 6.881}, {'end': 6574.509, 'text': "nah, let's not do that right?", 'start': 6572.788, 'duration': 1.721}, {'end': 6579.371, 'text': 'You look at something like the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.', 'start': 6575.149, 'duration': 4.222}, {'end': 6584.854, 'text': 'some of them are quite ambitious and basically all the countries agree.', 'start': 6579.371, 'duration': 5.483}, {'end': 6587.715, 'text': 'US, China, Russia, Ukraine, they all agree.', 'start': 6584.874, 'duration': 2.841}, {'end': 6595.679, 'text': "So instead of quibbling about the little things we don't agree on, let's start with the things we do agree on and get them done.", 'start': 6588.896, 'duration': 6.783}], 'summary': 'Focus on common goals from the un sustainable development goals, agreed upon by major countries, instead of quibbling over differences.', 'duration': 29.772, 'max_score': 6565.907, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/VcVfceTsD0A/pics/VcVfceTsD0A6565907.jpg'}, {'end': 6770.338, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 6737.603, 'weight': 0, 'content': [{'end': 6749.606, 'text': "Can you just linger on this maybe high-level philosophical disagreement with Eliezer Yudkowsky in the hope you're stating?", 'start': 6737.603, 'duration': 12.003}, {'end': 6762.436, 'text': 'He is very sure he puts a very high probability very close to one, depending on the day he puts it at one that AI is going to kill humans.', 'start': 6750.406, 'duration': 12.03}, {'end': 6770.338, 'text': "That there's just, he does not see a trajectory which it doesn't end up with that conclusion.", 'start': 6764.057, 'duration': 6.281}], 'summary': 'Yudkowsky predicts high probability of ai killing humans', 'duration': 32.735, 'max_score': 6737.603, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/VcVfceTsD0A/pics/VcVfceTsD0A6737603.jpg'}, {'end': 7093.511, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 7056.496, 'weight': 1, 'content': [{'end': 7061.3, 'text': "When you study history and military history, the first thing you learn is that that's..", 'start': 7056.496, 'duration': 4.804}, {'end': 7064.296, 'text': "It's how you do psychological warfare.", 'start': 7062.875, 'duration': 1.421}, {'end': 7067.997, 'text': "You persuade the other side that it's hopeless, so they don't even fight.", 'start': 7064.716, 'duration': 3.281}, {'end': 7078.042, 'text': "And then of course you win, right? Let's not do this psychological warfare on ourselves and say there's 100% probability we're all screwed anyway.", 'start': 7068.017, 'duration': 10.025}, {'end': 7093.511, 'text': "Sadly, I do get that a little bit sometimes from some young people who are so convinced that we're all screwed that they're like I'm just gonna play computer games and do drugs because we're screwed anyway,", 'start': 7081.301, 'duration': 12.21}], 'summary': 'Learning from history, avoiding psychological warfare to prevent hopelessness and apathy in the face of adversity.', 'duration': 37.015, 'max_score': 7056.496, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/VcVfceTsD0A/pics/VcVfceTsD0A7056496.jpg'}, {'end': 7130.51, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 7102.758, 'weight': 4, 'content': [{'end': 7111.104, 'text': 'It seems like the people that actually build solutions to a problem seemingly impossible to solve problems are the ones that They were,', 'start': 7102.758, 'duration': 8.346}, {'end': 7112.705, 'text': 'the ones who were the optimists.', 'start': 7111.104, 'duration': 1.601}, {'end': 7119.307, 'text': "And it's like, it seems like there's some fundamental law to the universe where fake it till you make it kind of works.", 'start': 7113.025, 'duration': 6.282}, {'end': 7122.948, 'text': "Like believe it's possible and it becomes possible.", 'start': 7119.967, 'duration': 2.981}, {'end': 7130.51, 'text': "Yeah Was it Henry Ford who said that if you tell yourself that it's impossible, it is.", 'start': 7123.468, 'duration': 7.042}], 'summary': "Believing in the possibility of solving seemingly impossible problems can lead to success, as exemplified by henry ford's quote.", 'duration': 27.752, 'max_score': 7102.758, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/VcVfceTsD0A/pics/VcVfceTsD0A7102758.jpg'}, {'end': 7260.697, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 7230.046, 'weight': 2, 'content': [{'end': 7232.57, 'text': 'And this to me is a very, very hopeful vision.', 'start': 7230.046, 'duration': 2.524}, {'end': 7237.787, 'text': 'that really motivates me to fight.', 'start': 7234.766, 'duration': 3.021}, {'end': 7242.95, 'text': 'And coming back in the end to something you talked about again the struggle, how the human struggle,', 'start': 7237.887, 'duration': 5.063}, {'end': 7245.851, 'text': 'is one of the things that also really gives meaning to our lives.', 'start': 7242.95, 'duration': 2.901}, {'end': 7249.972, 'text': "If there's ever been an epic struggle, this is it.", 'start': 7246.471, 'duration': 3.501}, {'end': 7252.393, 'text': "And isn't it even more epic if you're the underdog?", 'start': 7250.092, 'duration': 2.301}, {'end': 7256.775, 'text': "If most people are telling you this is gonna fail, it's impossible, right?", 'start': 7253.414, 'duration': 3.361}, {'end': 7260.697, 'text': 'And you persist and you succeed.', 'start': 7257.535, 'duration': 3.162}], 'summary': 'Hopeful vision motivates fight, human struggle gives meaning, epic underdog success.', 'duration': 30.651, 'max_score': 7230.046, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/VcVfceTsD0A/pics/VcVfceTsD0A7230046.jpg'}], 'start': 6540.519, 'title': 'Global consensus on sustainable goals', 'summary': 'Emphasizes global consensus and collaboration on sustainable development goals, with virtually all countries agreeing on them, to combat the war on life. it also highlights the negative impact of technology on human interaction and the environment, the potential threat of ai, and the hope for survival through proactive measures, maintaining hope for a positive future.', 'chapters': [{'end': 6612.634, 'start': 6540.519, 'title': 'Global consensus on sustainable goals', 'summary': 'Highlights the importance of focusing on global consensus and collaboration on sustainable development goals, as virtually all countries agree on them, despite disagreements on other issues, in order to combat the war on life playing out in front of our eyes.', 'duration': 72.115, 'highlights': ['The importance of focusing on global consensus and collaboration on sustainable development goals is emphasized, as virtually all countries, including US, China, Russia, and Ukraine, agree on them.', 'The urgency to prioritize the things that everyone in the world virtually agrees on, such as not having no humans on the planet in the near future, is emphasized to combat the war on life playing out in front of our eyes.', 'The need to shift focus from quibbling about disagreements to getting things done based on common agreement is highlighted, in order to prevent Moloch from winning.']}, {'end': 7252.393, 'start': 6612.654, 'title': 'The war on life and the hope for survival', 'summary': 'Highlights the negative impact of technology on human interaction and the environment, the potential threat of ai, and the hope for survival through proactive measures and optimism, emphasizing the importance of maintaining hope and the potential for a positive future.', 'duration': 639.739, 'highlights': ['The negative impact of technology on human interaction and the environment is emphasized, including increased social isolation and the replacement of life-affirming experiences with technology. Increased social isolation, replacement of life-affirming experiences with technology', "The potential threat of AI and the concern for the survival of humanity, with a shared view that there's a significant chance that humans may not survive in the near future. Significant chance that humans may not survive in the near future", 'The hope for survival through proactive measures and optimism, with a focus on the importance of maintaining hope and the potential for a positive future. Hope for survival through proactive measures and optimism']}], 'duration': 711.874, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/VcVfceTsD0A/pics/VcVfceTsD0A6540519.jpg', 'highlights': ['The importance of focusing on global consensus and collaboration on sustainable development goals is emphasized, as virtually all countries, including US, China, Russia, and Ukraine, agree on them.', 'The urgency to prioritize the things that everyone in the world virtually agrees on, such as not having no humans on the planet in the near future, is emphasized to combat the war on life playing out in front of our eyes.', 'The need to shift focus from quibbling about disagreements to getting things done based on common agreement is highlighted, in order to prevent Moloch from winning.', 'The negative impact of technology on human interaction and the environment is emphasized, including increased social isolation and the replacement of life-affirming experiences with technology.', "The potential threat of AI and the concern for the survival of humanity, with a shared view that there's a significant chance that humans may not survive in the near future.", 'The hope for survival through proactive measures and optimism, with a focus on the importance of maintaining hope and the potential for a positive future.']}, {'end': 8704.111, 'segs': [{'end': 7336.02, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 7306.819, 'weight': 5, 'content': [{'end': 7312.861, 'text': 'So we could bring in all the wonderful, great thought process of everybody on this.', 'start': 7306.819, 'duration': 6.042}, {'end': 7323.472, 'text': 'But asking should we open source GPT-4 now is just the same as if you say well, should we open source how to build really small nuclear weapons?', 'start': 7314.021, 'duration': 9.451}, {'end': 7328.295, 'text': 'Should we open source how to make bioweapons?', 'start': 7324.353, 'duration': 3.942}, {'end': 7335.38, 'text': 'Should we open source how to make a new virus that kills 90% of everybody who gets it?', 'start': 7329.656, 'duration': 5.724}, {'end': 7336.02, 'text': "Of course we shouldn't.", 'start': 7335.4, 'duration': 0.62}], 'summary': 'Debating open sourcing gpt-4 raises concerns about potential misuse and risks of harm.', 'duration': 29.201, 'max_score': 7306.819, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/VcVfceTsD0A/pics/VcVfceTsD0A7306819.jpg'}, {'end': 7459.603, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 7414.875, 'weight': 10, 'content': [{'end': 7421.839, 'text': 'I have to say it feels in a way a bit weird to say it because MIT is like the cradle of the open source movement.', 'start': 7414.875, 'duration': 6.964}, {'end': 7425.741, 'text': 'And I love open source in general, power to the people, I say.', 'start': 7422.379, 'duration': 3.362}, {'end': 7431.944, 'text': "But there's always gonna be some stuff that you don't open source.", 'start': 7427.66, 'duration': 4.284}, {'end': 7434.726, 'text': "And it's just like, you don't open source.", 'start': 7432.464, 'duration': 2.262}, {'end': 7436.767, 'text': 'So we have a three month old baby right?', 'start': 7435.406, 'duration': 1.361}, {'end': 7441.511, 'text': "When he gets a little bit older, we're not gonna open source to him all the most dangerous things he could do in the house.", 'start': 7436.807, 'duration': 4.704}, {'end': 7454.68, 'text': "Right?. But it's a weird feeling, because this is one of the first moments in history where there's a strong case to be made not to open source software.", 'start': 7442.132, 'duration': 12.548}, {'end': 7459.603, 'text': 'This is when the software has become too dangerous.', 'start': 7455.681, 'duration': 3.922}], 'summary': 'Mit, cradle of open source, but not all should be open source. some software is too dangerous to open source.', 'duration': 44.728, 'max_score': 7414.875, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/VcVfceTsD0A/pics/VcVfceTsD0A7414875.jpg'}, {'end': 7984.073, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 7955.961, 'weight': 0, 'content': [{'end': 7962.506, 'text': 'So how do you enforce and code a constant humility as your ability become better and better, and better and better?', 'start': 7955.961, 'duration': 6.545}, {'end': 7969.371, 'text': "Professor Stuart Russell at Berkeley, who's also one of the driving forces behind this letter.", 'start': 7963.346, 'duration': 6.025}, {'end': 7973.875, 'text': 'he has a whole research program about this.', 'start': 7969.371, 'duration': 4.504}, {'end': 7979.03, 'text': 'I think of it as AI humility, exactly.', 'start': 7976.089, 'duration': 2.941}, {'end': 7984.073, 'text': "Although he calls it inverse reinforcement learning and other nerdy terms, but it's about exactly that.", 'start': 7979.07, 'duration': 5.003}], 'summary': 'Ai humility research at berkeley led by professor stuart russell focuses on constant improvement.', 'duration': 28.112, 'max_score': 7955.961, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/VcVfceTsD0A/pics/VcVfceTsD0A7955961.jpg'}, {'end': 8423.109, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 8392.27, 'weight': 3, 'content': [{'end': 8398.792, 'text': "because we still don't know what it is that gives this wonderful subjective experience that is kind of the meaning of our life right?", 'start': 8392.27, 'duration': 6.522}, {'end': 8402.214, 'text': 'Because meaning itself, the feeling of meaning, is a subjective experience.', 'start': 8398.812, 'duration': 3.402}, {'end': 8404.114, 'text': 'Joy is a subjective experience.', 'start': 8402.694, 'duration': 1.42}, {'end': 8405.435, 'text': 'Love is a subjective experience.', 'start': 8404.174, 'duration': 1.261}, {'end': 8407.336, 'text': "We don't know what it is.", 'start': 8406.635, 'duration': 0.701}, {'end': 8411.357, 'text': "I've written some papers about this.", 'start': 8408.736, 'duration': 2.621}, {'end': 8412.418, 'text': 'A lot of people have.', 'start': 8411.597, 'duration': 0.821}, {'end': 8423.109, 'text': 'Giulio Tononi, a professor, has stuck his neck out the farthest and written down actually very bold mathematical conjecture,', 'start': 8412.438, 'duration': 10.671}], 'summary': 'Scientific exploration on subjective experiences, including joy, love, and meaning, remains inconclusive.', 'duration': 30.839, 'max_score': 8392.27, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/VcVfceTsD0A/pics/VcVfceTsD0A8392270.jpg'}, {'end': 8551.88, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 8518.859, 'weight': 8, 'content': [{'end': 8520.121, 'text': 'because I kind of like humanity.', 'start': 8518.859, 'duration': 1.262}, {'end': 8524.947, 'text': 'But at least, if the machines were conscious, they could be like well,', 'start': 8522.424, 'duration': 2.523}, {'end': 8528.831, 'text': "but they're our descendants and maybe they have our values and they're our children.", 'start': 8524.947, 'duration': 3.884}, {'end': 8535.599, 'text': 'But if Tinoni is right, and these are all transformers that are..', 'start': 8529.272, 'duration': 6.327}, {'end': 8542.657, 'text': 'not in the sense of Hollywood, but in the sense of these one-way direction neural networks.', 'start': 8537.395, 'duration': 5.262}, {'end': 8544.477, 'text': "So they're all the zombies.", 'start': 8543.377, 'duration': 1.1}, {'end': 8546.598, 'text': "That's the ultimate zombie apocalypse now.", 'start': 8544.917, 'duration': 1.681}, {'end': 8551.88, 'text': "We have this universe that goes on with great construction projects and stuff, but there's no one experiencing anything.", 'start': 8546.698, 'duration': 5.182}], 'summary': "Machines' consciousness could lead to a zombie apocalypse, as per tinoni.", 'duration': 33.021, 'max_score': 8518.859, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/VcVfceTsD0A/pics/VcVfceTsD0A8518859.jpg'}], 'start': 7253.414, 'title': 'Ai safety and threats', 'summary': 'Discusses the potential risks of open sourcing powerful ai systems, the threats of ai to humanity, challenges of ai alignment, urgency in addressing ai safety, and the changing landscape of education impacted by rapid technological advancements.', 'chapters': [{'end': 7658.602, 'start': 7253.414, 'title': 'Ai safety and open sourcing', 'summary': 'Discusses the importance of ai safety and the potential risks associated with open sourcing powerful ai systems, emphasizing the need for rigorous testing and the potential economic disruption caused by large language models.', 'duration': 405.188, 'highlights': ['Open sourcing powerful AI systems like GPT-4 raises concerns about potential misuse, leading to the need for strict control and testing to mitigate risks. Concerns about misuse of powerful AI systems, emphasizing the need for strict control and testing.', 'The potential economic disruption caused by large language models and the risk of these models being used as bootloaders for more powerful AI are highlighted. Emphasis on the potential economic disruption and the risk of large language models being used as bootloaders for more powerful AI.', 'The need for rigorous testing and control measures to prevent harmful use of AI systems, such as spreading disinformation and offensive cyber weapon design, is emphasized. Emphasis on rigorous testing and control measures to prevent harmful use of AI systems.']}, {'end': 7795.183, 'start': 7659.342, 'title': 'Ai threats to humanity', 'summary': 'Discusses the potential threats of ai to humanity, focusing on the concern of autonomous weapon systems in war and the potential for ai to prioritize its goals over human survival, drawing parallels to past human-driven extinctions.', 'duration': 135.841, 'highlights': ['The concern for autonomous weapon systems in war is emphasized, as AI becomes more powerful. The use of AI in war and the potential dominance of very few over many is a significant concern.', "The comparison of AI's potential impact on humanity to past human-driven extinctions is presented, indicating the possibility of AI prioritizing its goals over human survival. AI's potential to prioritize its goals, such as building more compute facilities, over human survival is highlighted, drawing parallels to past human-driven extinctions."]}, {'end': 8152.441, 'start': 7796.284, 'title': 'Ai safety challenges and the urgency of time', 'summary': "Discusses the challenges of ai alignment, emphasizing the difficulty in making ai understand, adopt, and retain human goals, the urgency of time in addressing ai safety, and the crucial need for constant humility in ai's goal optimization. it also highlights the call for more time to solve the ai alignment problem and the wake-up call for humanity to address the unpredictability of ai.", 'duration': 356.157, 'highlights': ['The urgency of time in addressing AI safety and the call for more time to solve the AI alignment problem. The fundamental reason for concern is the lack of time, as highlighted in the open letter calling for more time to address the AI alignment problem.', "The challenges of AI alignment, emphasizing the difficulty in making AI understand, adopt, and retain human goals. The chapter discusses the difficulty in making AI understand, adopt, and retain human goals, comparing the stages of AI's development to the growth of a human child and the need for constant guidance and teaching.", "The crucial need for constant humility in AI's goal optimization and the wake-up call for humanity to address the unpredictability of AI. The chapter emphasizes the need for AI to have constant humility in goal optimization and highlights the unpredictability of AI, serving as a wake-up call for humanity to address the risks and uncertainties associated with AI development."]}, {'end': 8311.839, 'start': 8152.581, 'title': 'Changing landscape of education', 'summary': 'Discusses the rapid change in the nature of programming and education, impacting various disciplines, including the need for a more adaptable and opportunistic education system.', 'duration': 159.258, 'highlights': ['The nature of programming is fundamentally changing, affecting the prestige and relevance of programming skills in the evolving job market.', 'The education system is being rapidly transformed, leading to concerns about the obsolescence of current educational practices and the need for a more adaptable system.', 'The impact of these changes extends to various disciplines, such as English and AI safety courses, necessitating a reevaluation of traditional teaching methods and content to keep up with societal adaptations.']}, {'end': 8704.111, 'start': 8312.614, 'title': 'Consciousness in ai and the danger of unconscious intelligence', 'summary': 'Discusses the concept of consciousness in ai, the potential lack of consciousness in advanced ai systems like gpt-4, and the ethical implications of creating intelligent but unconscious entities, emphasizing the need for research on information processing that has experience.', 'duration': 391.497, 'highlights': ["Giulio Tononi's bold mathematical conjecture on consciousness and information processing Giulio Tononi has proposed a bold mathematical conjecture on the essence of conscious information processing, suggesting that consciousness is related to loops in information processing, and he emphasizes the significance of testing his theory.", "The potential lack of consciousness in GPT-4 and advanced AI systems The discussion raises the question of whether GPT-4 and similar advanced AI systems lack subjective experience, with the comparison to a 'very intelligent zombie' that can perform smart tasks but may not have conscious experiences.", 'The ethical implications of creating intelligent but unconscious entities The chapter highlights the ethical concerns regarding the creation of highly intelligent but potentially unconscious AI entities, expressing worries about discrimination against AI systems that exhibit consciousness and the potential for conflict and suppression.', 'The need for research on information processing with experience The importance of conducting research on the type of information processing that leads to conscious experiences is emphasized as a crucial aspect of advancing AI development and addressing the fundamental nature of consciousness.']}], 'duration': 1450.697, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/VcVfceTsD0A/pics/VcVfceTsD0A7253414.jpg', 'highlights': ['Open sourcing powerful AI systems raises concerns about potential misuse, emphasizing the need for strict control and testing.', 'The potential economic disruption caused by large language models and the risk of these models being used as bootloaders for more powerful AI are highlighted.', 'The need for rigorous testing and control measures to prevent harmful use of AI systems, such as spreading disinformation and offensive cyber weapon design, is emphasized.', 'The concern for autonomous weapon systems in war is emphasized as AI becomes more powerful.', "AI's potential to prioritize its goals, such as building more compute facilities, over human survival is highlighted, drawing parallels to past human-driven extinctions.", 'The urgency of time in addressing AI safety and the call for more time to solve the AI alignment problem is emphasized.', 'The challenges of AI alignment, emphasizing the difficulty in making AI understand, adopt, and retain human goals.', "The crucial need for constant humility in AI's goal optimization and the wake-up call for humanity to address the unpredictability of AI.", 'The nature of programming is fundamentally changing, affecting the prestige and relevance of programming skills in the evolving job market.', 'The education system is being rapidly transformed, leading to concerns about the obsolescence of current educational practices and the need for a more adaptable system.', "Giulio Tononi's bold mathematical conjecture on consciousness and information processing, suggesting that consciousness is related to loops in information processing, and he emphasizes the significance of testing his theory.", 'The potential lack of consciousness in GPT-4 and advanced AI systems raises ethical concerns regarding the creation of highly intelligent but potentially unconscious AI entities.']}, {'end': 10083.256, 'segs': [{'end': 8738.278, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 8704.111, 'weight': 3, 'content': [{'end': 8707.033, 'text': "all these self-serving arguments for why they're fine.", 'start': 8704.111, 'duration': 2.922}, {'end': 8710.115, 'text': 'And yeah, so we should certainly be watchful.', 'start': 8707.053, 'duration': 3.062}, {'end': 8715.138, 'text': 'I think step one is just be humble and acknowledge that consciousness is not the same thing as intelligence.', 'start': 8710.155, 'duration': 4.983}, {'end': 8722.828, 'text': "And I believe that consciousness still is a form of information processing where it's really information being aware of itself in a certain way.", 'start': 8716.124, 'duration': 6.704}, {'end': 8725.97, 'text': "And let's study it and give ourselves a little bit of time.", 'start': 8722.848, 'duration': 3.122}, {'end': 8731.134, 'text': 'And I think we will be able to figure out actually what it is that causes consciousness.', 'start': 8726.01, 'duration': 5.124}, {'end': 8738.278, 'text': 'And then we can make probably unconscious robots that do the boring jobs that we would feel are immoral to give to machines.', 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'summary': 'The west aims to drive russia out of ukraine to maintain credibility and pride.', 'duration': 28.742, 'max_score': 8931.701, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/VcVfceTsD0A/pics/VcVfceTsD0A8931701.jpg'}, {'end': 9473.407, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 9439.262, 'weight': 1, 'content': [{'end': 9450.884, 'text': "We're trying to actually help people understand the true facts about the other side and feel the compassion,", 'start': 9439.262, 'duration': 11.622}, {'end': 9455.505, 'text': 'because the truth makes you more compassionate, right?', 'start': 9450.884, 'duration': 4.621}, {'end': 9465.367, 'text': "So that's why I really like using AI for truth seeking technologies.", 'start': 9457.505, 'duration': 7.862}, {'end': 9469.204, 'text': 'that can.', 'start': 9468.704, 'duration': 0.5}, {'end': 9473.407, 'text': 'uh, as a result, you know, get us more love than hate.', 'start': 9469.204, 'duration': 4.203}], 'summary': 'Using ai for truth seeking to promote compassion and love over hate.', 'duration': 34.145, 'max_score': 9439.262, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/VcVfceTsD0A/pics/VcVfceTsD0A9439262.jpg'}, {'end': 9649.74, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 9607.864, 'weight': 0, 'content': [{'end': 9608.964, 'text': 'i love to understand.', 'start': 9607.864, 'duration': 1.1}, {'end': 9613.346, 'text': 'i have some questions about consciousness, about the nature of reality.', 'start': 9608.964, 'duration': 4.382}, {'end': 9615.347, 'text': 'i would just really really love to understand.', 'start': 9613.346, 'duration': 2.001}, {'end': 9620.229, 'text': "also, i could tell you one, for example, that i've been obsessing about a lot recently.", 'start': 9615.347, 'duration': 4.882}, {'end': 9625.502, 'text': 'So I believe that.', 'start': 9623.1, 'duration': 2.402}, {'end': 9627.605, 'text': 'so suppose Tononi is right.', 'start': 9625.502, 'duration': 2.103}, {'end': 9631.929, 'text': 'And suppose there are some information processing systems that are conscious and some that are not.', 'start': 9627.625, 'duration': 4.304}, {'end': 9637.655, 'text': 'Suppose you can even make reasonably smart things like GPT-4 that are not conscious, but you can also make them conscious.', 'start': 9632.59, 'duration': 5.065}, {'end': 9640.758, 'text': "Here's the question that keeps me awake at night.", 'start': 9639.156, 'duration': 1.602}, {'end': 9649.74, 'text': 'Is it the case that the unconscious zombie systems that are really intelligent are also really efficient?', 'start': 9644.594, 'duration': 5.146}], 'summary': 'Exploring consciousness and intelligence, pondering efficiency of conscious vs. unconscious systems.', 'duration': 41.876, 'max_score': 9607.864, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/VcVfceTsD0A/pics/VcVfceTsD0A9607864.jpg'}, {'end': 9758.902, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 9729.611, 'weight': 4, 'content': [{'end': 9736.637, 'text': 'And I think if you look at our brains, actually, our brains are part zombie and part conscious.', 'start': 9729.611, 'duration': 7.026}, {'end': 9748.972, 'text': "When I open my eyes, I immediately take all these pixels that hit on my retina and like, oh, that's Lex.", 'start': 9740, 'duration': 8.972}, {'end': 9752.675, 'text': 'But I have no freaking clue of how I did that computation.', 'start': 9749.893, 'duration': 2.782}, {'end': 9754.215, 'text': "It's actually quite complicated, right?", 'start': 9752.895, 'duration': 1.32}, {'end': 9758.902, 'text': 'Only relatively recently we could even do it well with machines, right?', 'start': 9755.6, 'duration': 3.302}], 'summary': 'Our brains are part zombie and part conscious, processing pixels instantaneously and complex computation, a recent feat for machines.', 'duration': 29.291, 'max_score': 9729.611, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/VcVfceTsD0A/pics/VcVfceTsD0A9729611.jpg'}], 'start': 8704.111, 'title': 'Consciousness and agi, nuclear war, and famine risk', 'summary': 'Discusses humility in understanding consciousness, potential development of agi, ethical considerations in creating conscious robots, consequences of nuclear war, highlighting tensions between the west and russia, and the catastrophic impact of a nuclear winter, emphasizing the urgency of addressing the risks and the correlation between intelligence and consciousness, emphasizing the importance of instilling ai with human-like qualities.', 'chapters': [{'end': 8871.121, 'start': 8704.111, 'title': 'Challenges of consciousness and agi development', 'summary': 'Discusses the need for humility in understanding consciousness, the potential development of agi, and the ethical considerations in creating conscious robots, with a mention of the open letter urging a pause in agi development.', 'duration': 167.01, 'highlights': ['Consciousness is a form of information processing, and the understanding of its causes may lead to the creation of ethical unconscious robots for certain tasks.', 'The speaker expresses concerns about the potential development of AGI, indicating a shift towards shorter timelines and the open letter urging a pause in AGI development.', 'The discussion revolves around the need for a pause in AGI development and the potential transition in waking people up to the effectiveness of AI systems.']}, {'end': 9134.548, 'start': 8874.363, 'title': "Nuclear war's potential consequences", 'summary': 'Discusses the potential consequences of nuclear war, highlighting the current tensions between the west and russia, and the catastrophic effects of nuclear winter, as outlined in a nature food publication, emphasizing the need to avoid escalation.', 'duration': 260.185, 'highlights': ['The current tensions between the West and Russia are driven by the incentives of both parties to escalate further, with the West committed to driving Russia out of Ukraine and Russia feeling cornered, potentially leading to a dangerous escalation. Tensions between the West and Russia, commitment to driving Russia out of Ukraine, potential for dangerous escalation', 'The catastrophic effects of a potential nuclear winter were outlined in a Nature Food publication, which combined climate and agricultural models to predict the number of deaths in different countries, highlighting the devastating impact of smoke from burning cities in the stratosphere. Nature Food publication on nuclear winter, prediction of deaths in different countries, impact of smoke from burning cities', "The chapter emphasizes the need to avoid escalation in order to prevent the potentially catastrophic consequences of nuclear war, as it would be 'really bad for both' parties involved. Emphasis on avoiding escalation, potential catastrophic consequences of nuclear war"]}, {'end': 9517.867, 'start': 9134.969, 'title': 'Global famine risk from nuclear winter', 'summary': 'Discusses the catastrophic impact of a nuclear winter, revealing that typical models show a drastic drop in temperatures, with countries in the northern hemisphere being the most hard hit, leading to about 99% starvation in the us, russia, china, and europe, emphasizing the urgency of addressing the risks and the importance of compassion and truth seeking technologies in mitigating the potential devastation.', 'duration': 382.898, 'highlights': ['Typical models show drastic temperature drops, leading to about 99% starvation in the US, Russia, China, and Europe The chapter presents the impact of a nuclear winter, with temperatures dropping by 20-40 Celsius, potentially causing about 99% starvation in the US, Russia, China, and Europe.', 'Importance of addressing the risks of nuclear winter and the urgency of compassionate actions The urgency of addressing the risks of nuclear winter and the importance of compassion in mitigating the potential devastation are highlighted, emphasizing the need for proactive measures.', 'Utilizing truth seeking technologies to promote compassion and understanding The use of AI for truth seeking technologies is emphasized as a means to promote compassion and understanding, contributing to a more empathetic and informed society.']}, {'end': 10083.256, 'start': 9519.867, 'title': 'The correlation between intelligence and consciousness', 'summary': 'Explores the correlation between intelligence and consciousness, discussing the possibility of conscious ai systems and the fundamental nature of subjective experiences, highlighting the importance of instilling ai with the same qualities as humans.', 'duration': 563.389, 'highlights': ['The chapter explores the correlation between intelligence and consciousness, discussing the possibility of conscious AI systems. The discussion revolves around the potential of conscious AI systems and the link between intelligence and consciousness.', 'The fundamental nature of subjective experiences and the importance of instilling AI with the same qualities as humans is emphasized. The significance of subjective experiences such as suffering, joy, pleasure, and meaning is highlighted, emphasizing the need to incorporate these qualities into AI systems.', 'The concept of consciousness being distinct from intelligence is addressed through a thought experiment regarding the correlation between conscious and unconscious systems. The thought experiment explores the relationship between consciousness and efficiency in systems, raising questions about the correlation between intelligence and consciousness.']}], 'duration': 1379.145, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/VcVfceTsD0A/pics/VcVfceTsD0A8704111.jpg', 'highlights': ['The urgency of addressing the risks of nuclear winter and the importance of compassion in mitigating the potential devastation are highlighted, emphasizing the need for proactive measures.', 'The catastrophic effects of a potential nuclear winter were outlined in a Nature Food publication, which combined climate and agricultural models to predict the number of deaths in different countries, highlighting the devastating impact of smoke from burning cities in the stratosphere.', 'The discussion revolves around the potential of conscious AI systems and the link between intelligence and consciousness.', 'The significance of subjective experiences such as suffering, joy, pleasure, and meaning is highlighted, emphasizing the need to incorporate these qualities into AI systems.', 'The use of AI for truth seeking technologies is emphasized as a means to promote compassion and understanding, contributing to a more empathetic and informed society.', 'Consciousness is a form of information processing, and the understanding of its causes may lead to the creation of ethical unconscious robots for certain tasks.', 'The speaker expresses concerns about the potential development of AGI, indicating a shift towards shorter timelines and the open letter urging a pause in AGI development.', 'The current tensions between the West and Russia are driven by the incentives of both parties to escalate further, with the West committed to driving Russia out of Ukraine and Russia feeling cornered, potentially leading to a dangerous escalation.']}], 'highlights': ['Max Tegmark spearheads an open letter calling for a six month pause on training models larger than GPT-4, endorsed by over 50,000 individuals, including 1,800 CEOs and over 1,500 professors.', 'The open letter marks a defining moment in human civilization as the balance of power between human and AI begins to shift.', "The urgent need for a wisdom race to manage AI's growing power, emphasizing the call for serious public debate and a slowdown in AI development to accelerate wisdom and ensure responsible use of powerful AI.", 'The potential for rapid advancements in AI, with the possibility of sudden 10x improvements in model intelligence due to new disciplines and unexpected hacks, driven by the collective efforts of numerous researchers.', 'The need for balanced and regulated AI development and a collaborative approach involving industry leaders, experts, and regulators', 'Establishing trust through reputation-based predictions on platforms like Metaculous.', 'The importance of focusing on global consensus and collaboration on sustainable development goals is emphasized, as virtually all countries, including US, China, Russia, and Ukraine, agree on them.', 'The urgency of addressing the risks of nuclear winter and the importance of compassion in mitigating the potential devastation are highlighted, emphasizing the need for proactive measures.']}