This podcast series is about our future with Artificial Intelligence, with most of the focus on A.G.I. or Artificial general intelligence. In this podcast series, I will create solo episodes to take you from 0 knowledge of AI to understanding the subject, and I will be talking to experts to mainly try to answer the question; What can we do now that will bring down the probability of a bad outcome with AI? Or, how to increase our chance of a Safe Transition to the machine intelligence era! If you want to help take action or share ideas, reach out to me! Contact info in episode description.
Safe Transition Talks
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This podcast series is about our future with Artificial Intelligence, with most of the focus on A.G.I. or Artificial general intelligence. In this podcast series, I will create solo episodes to take you from 0 knowledge of AI to understanding the subject, and I will be talking to experts to mainly try to answer the question; What can we do now that will bring down the probability of a bad outcome with AI? Or, how to increase our chance of a Safe Transition to the machine intelligence era! If you want to help take action or share ideas, reach out to me! Contact info in episode description.
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January 17, 2023
#1 - Thomas Hickey: AGI Takeoff, Existential Risk, Regulation Ideas
<p>(See timestamps below)<br> Thomas Hickey is a Dutch student in both philosophy and artificial intelligence at Utrecht University. We talk about his bachelor thesis on A.G.I. or Artificial General Intelligence, on bottlenecks for recursive self-improvement. But also go into existential risk and what we can do about it.</p> <p><strong>CONTACT INFO:<br> Alex van der Meer<br> email: safetransitionREMOVETHIS@gmail.com but remove capital letters, (for spam)</strong></p> <p><strong>SEE MORE OF ME:</strong></p> <p>- Twitter:<br> <a href="https://twitter.com/AlexvanderMeer5">https://twitter.com/AlexvanderMeer5</a></p> <p>- YouTube:<br> <a href="https://twitter.com/AlexvanderMeer5">https://www.youtube.com/@safetransition9743</a></p> <p><strong>EPISODE LINKS:<br> <br> Eliezer Yudkowsky, on why it is lethal not to have retries <br> </strong><a href="https://intelligence.org/2022/06/10/agi-ruin/"><strong>https://intelligence.org/2022/06/10/agi-ruin/</strong></a><a href=""><strong> </strong></a><strong><br> <br> OpenAI on their approach to alignment blog post<br> </strong><a href="https://openai.com/blog/our-approach-to-alignment-research/"><strong>https://openai.com/blog/our-approach-to-alignment-research/</strong></a></p> <p><strong>TIMESTAMPS:<br> On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time.</strong></p> <p><strong>(00:00) - Introduction</strong></p> <p><strong>(03:16) - Recursive self-improvement, how long until superintelligence</strong></p> <p><strong>(10:50) - What can be learned in the digital realm</strong></p> <p><strong>(14:21) - How fast can it learn in the real world</strong></p> <p><strong>(18:34) - Can AGI become better than us?</strong></p> <p><strong>(22:54) - Complex enough environment to create superintelligence?</strong></p> <p><strong>(29:10) - Can AGI Thomas take over the world?</strong></p> <p><strong>(37:40) - Is superintelligence irrelevant for safety?</strong></p> <p><strong>(41:38) - Existential risk from AI?</strong></p> <p><strong>(48:09) - How to decrease the chance of a bad outcome?</strong></p> <p><strong>(49:08) - Regulations</strong></p> <p><strong>(53:19) - ChatGPT and the best current models</strong></p> <p><strong>(59:57) - Solution to the treacherous turn? </strong></p> <p><strong>(1:05:01) - AGI becomes religious?</strong></p> <p><strong>(1:11:03) - Starting point of the intelligence explosion?</strong></p> <p><strong>(1:16:49) - OpenAI Alignment approach blog post</strong></p> <p><strong>(1:18:29) - Is Open source bad for safety?</strong></p> <p><strong>(1:24:49) - How to contact me</strong></p>
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