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The Threat of Advanced AI: Urgent Attention Needed - Geoffrey Miller | Modern Wisdom 650
Geoffrey Miller is a professor of evolutionary psychology at the University of New Mexico, a researcher and an author.
Artificial Intelligence possesses the capability to process information thousands of times faster than humans. It's opened up massive possibilities. But it's also opened up huge debate about the safety of creating a machine which is more intelligent and powerful than we are. Just how legitimate are the concerns about the future of AI?
Expect to learn the key risks that AI poses to humanity, the 3 biggest existential risks that will determine the future of civilisation, whether Large Language Models can actually become conscious simply by being more powerful, whether making an Artificial General Intelligence will be like creating a god or a demon, the influence that AI will have on the future of our lives and much more...
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00:00 Intro
02:43 Is AI Viewed as an Existential Risk?
06:14 How the Perceived Risk of AI Has Evolved
15:47 Rapid Advancements in Neural Networks
20:07 The Next Level for ChatGPT
28:25 Helping the Public Understand the AI Arms Race
37:16 Who Will Be the First to Create AGI?
40:53 Is the Alignment Problem Still a Problem?
50:42 The Opposing View to AI Safety-ism
54:55 Most Concerning Current AI Advancements
59:36 How AI Will Influence Content & Social Media
1:04:57 How Accurate Can AI Expert Predictions Be?
1:08:40 Something Much Worse than Existential Risk?
1:11:43 Why AI Won’t Save the World
1:19:29 Where to Find Geoffrey
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