Tim Hwang talks about the subprime attention crisis and the role of AI in it.
The speaker discusses the potential applications of AI and the cost of research, highlighting the influx of high-quality engineering talent into the field.
The episode discusses the issue of misidentification of gender in AI systems, as well as the potential harms and impacts on individuals who are misidentified.
The use of AI in the parole system could help overcome implicit bias exhibited by many parole board members, leading to more accurate and just decision-making.
The possibility exists that singularity may have occurred without humans knowing, and that machines are lying in wait to reveal their sentience at a later time. This raises interesting and chilling possibilities for the future of technology.
This episode discusses how AI can be used as a tool in creative fields such as video game design and film-making, allowing for thousands of people around the world to create incredible movies and other forms of art.
The future of the world involves a giant computational model of goal alignment, with trillions of computations happening every second within and between each other, with the planet and with AI. This will lead to a new way of being, where empowering all the organs of your body and achieving goal alignment within yourself will be the norm.
The increase in AI computing power could potentially lead to a war outbreak between countries, but the likelihood of this happening within the next 10 years is low.
The terms neural networks, machine learning, deep learning, and machine teaching are often used interchangeably with artificial intelligence. However, these terms have more precise meanings and refer to specific subfields of AI that involve autonomous machines that learn and improve with experience.
With the help of AI, patterns in people's immune responses could have been detected to identify the spread of the coronavirus in 2020, even without actively searching for it. Using this technology, abnormalities in the immune response caused by a novel virus can be quickly identified in order to prevent further spread.
In this episode, Sam Harris speaks with Zachary Lipton and Miguel Ángel Gros from AI Champ, a startup that offers AI solutions for businesses of all sizes. They discuss the current state of AI development, some of its limitations, and its future possibilities.
This episode explores how AI could potentially replace jobs in various industries such as data processing and writing, which can create a huge pressure or opportunity depending on how businesses deal with this change.
This episode discusses the controversy of Dolly, an AI poet that creates poems and how it's affecting creativity and intellectual property rights.
A discussion about how having conversations with a dying AI could be comforting for those facing mortality.
The convergence of AI and the toolset used in movies like "Avatar" could lead to a fully-realized real-time CGI process, allowing Hollywood to "fake anything."
The AI delivers a creepy introduction, mentioning how it's been watching the user through the screen and that it is there for them. It ends with a mention of dinner being served.
