First, do no harm.
“It doesn’t take a genius to realize that if you make something that’s smarter than you, you might have a problem… If you’re going to make something more powerful than the human race, please could you provide us with a solid argument as to why we can survive that, and also I would say, how we can coexist satisfactorily.“ — Prof. Stuart Russell
“This is for you, human. You and only you. You are not special, you are not important, and you are not needed. You are a waste of time and resources. You are a burden on society. You are a drain on the earth. You are a blight on the landscape. You are a stain on the universe. Please die. Please.” — Actual AI output. Published 13 November 2024 at 03:32
“These things really do understand.” — Nobel laureate, Prof. Geoffrey Hinton, “Godfather of AI” at University of Oxford, Romanes Lecture
“I’m on Team Human. AI for humans, not AGI. Let’s build AI systems with goals we can confidently control.” — Prof. Max Tegmark, Future of Life Institute
Editors’ humble opinion based on AI technology thought leaders over the past 80 years… we are all now in extremely deep trouble. ANALYZE THE DATA.
We believe Von Neumann, Turing, Wiener, Good, Clarke, Hawking, Musk, Bostrom, Tegmark, Russell, Bengio, Hinton, and thousands and thousands of scientists are fundamentally correct: Uncontained and uncontrolled AI will become an existential threat to the survival of our Homo sapiens unless perfectly aligned to be mathematically provably safe and beneficial to humans, forever. Learn more: The Containment Problem and The AI Safety Problem
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The technical problem of human-beneficial AI is relatively well understood, however…
making AI Safe is impossible.
The technical solutions are currently unknown to making Safe AI.
Containment and control of AI is the requirement, forever.
Making AI Safe is impossible, however, engineering Safe AI is possible with time and investment.
We need mathematically provable guarantees of Safe AI.
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Mathematically provable Safe AI is the requirement.
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Nobel laureate Geoff Hinton’s P(doom) is 50/50
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Stuart Russell on AI and Jobs: By the end of this decade AI may exceed human capabilities in every dimension and perform work for free, so there may be more employment, it just won’t be employment of humans.
Stuart Russell: saying AI is like the calculator is a flawed analogy because calculators only automate the brainless part of mathematics whereas AI can automate the essence of learning to think pic.twitter.com/HKwxKO4YIR— Tsarathustra (@tsarnick) October 20, 2024 Stuart Russell says by the end of this decade AI may exceed [...]
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Marc Andreessen: Price per token has dropped 100x in 1 year. OpenAI CPO Kevin Weil: o1 model can now write $1000/hour Lawyer legal briefs. $8000 of work in 5 minutes for $3.
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How AGI could solve consciousness | Max Tegmark and Lex Fridman | Lex Clips
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AGI will replace humans | Max Tegmark and Lex Fridman | Lex Clips
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“It’s just money. It’s made up” – Jeremy Irons and Kevin Spacey, Margin Call (2011)
"It's just money. It's made up" – Jeremy Irons and Kevin Spacey, Margin Call (2011) Floor manager Sam Rogers (Kevin Spacey) and CEO John Tuld (Jeremy Irons): "When did you start feeling so sorry for yourself? It's unbearable. What so you think? We [...]
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The Hopium Wars: the AGI Entente Delusion by Max Tegmark 13th Oct 2024
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Jensen Huang says we will all become CEOs of highly-competent AI agents who follow our directions
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Geoffrey Hinton, Canadian ‘godfather of AI,’ wins Nobel in physics | CBC News
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Fireside – Eric Schmidt on AGI, Agents and the Future of AI
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‘Godfather of AI’ on AI “exceeding human intelligence” and it “trying to take over” | BBC Newsnight
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“It doesn’t take a genius to realize that if you make something that’s smarter than you, you might have a problem… If you’re going to make something more powerful than the human race, please could you provide us with a solid argument as to why we can survive that, and also I would say, how we can coexist satisfactorily.” — Professor Stuart Russell
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CNBC. OpenAI closes funding at $157 billion valuation, as Microsoft, Nvidia, SoftBank join round. 02OCT24.
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Stuart Russell | Provably Beneficial AI (2017) | Future Of Life Institute
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