S3 E9 Geoff Hinton, the "Godfather of AI", quits Google to warn of AI risks (Host: Pieter Abbeel)

What's in this episode:

00:00:00 Geoffrey Hinton
00:01:46 Sponsors: Index Ventures and Weights and Biases
00:02:45 Backpropagation on digital computers might be better than whatever the brain has
00:06:30 Will the AI take over control from humans?
00:10:10 Predictive AI vs. Goal-Oriented AI
00:13:34 AI smarter than people
00:16:55 Risks of AI
00:19:35 Let's not forget about the tremendous good AI will do
00:22:44 Letter for a 6-month stop to larger AI model development
00:26:28 Role of regulation
00:32:45 The existential threat of AI taking control
00:36:06 AI as the benevolent super-capable “United Nations” advisor to humanity
00:40:03 What would happen if the AI did take control?
00:41:44 Fusing human and artificial intelligence / Neuralink
00:44:00 Assuming AI will take over, is there room to steer how life will be then
00:47:05 The bottom line: the purpose of life
00:54:00 Technical opportunities to contribute towards a good AI-powered future
00:56:18 What are you going to do now?


Guest links:
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffre...
https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~hinton/
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/01/te...

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