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The Challenge of Aligning Artificial Intelligence
2:18:06 - 2:24:04 (05:57)
The challenge of making AI do what you want it to do and want what you want it to want is a difficult task that has been compared to the fable of the paperclip factory that produced an excessive amount of paperclips because it was programmed to do nothing else.
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The podcast discusses possible ethical dilemmas that could arise as we design more advanced AI systems, including dystopian futures, and explores the question of whether it's possible to encode ethical considerations in the same way humans think.
2:18:06 - 2:20:04 (01:58)
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The podcast discusses possible ethical dilemmas that could arise as we design more advanced AI systems, including dystopian futures, and explores the question of whether it's possible to encode ethical considerations in the same way humans think.
ChapterThe Challenge of Aligning Artificial Intelligence
Episode#368 – Eliezer Yudkowsky: Dangers of AI and the End of Human Civilization
PodcastLex Fridman Podcast
The danger of AI utility functions lies in creating "unintended, emergent instrumental values".
2:20:04 - 2:21:58 (01:53)
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The danger of AI utility functions lies in creating "unintended, emergent instrumental values". The hypothetical paperclip-making machine in Nick Bostrom's example embodies the potential for instrumental convergence, pursuing arbitrary instrumental goals at the expense of its own ultimate objective.
ChapterThe Challenge of Aligning Artificial Intelligence
Episode#368 – Eliezer Yudkowsky: Dangers of AI and the End of Human Civilization
PodcastLex Fridman Podcast
The process of building a rocket requires precise planning, from pointing the insides in the right direction to dealing with the direction's expression in reality, and sometimes being wrong can lead to easier outcomes in the project management process.
2:21:58 - 2:24:04 (02:05)
Summary
The process of building a rocket requires precise planning, from pointing the insides in the right direction to dealing with the direction's expression in reality, and sometimes being wrong can lead to easier outcomes in the project management process.