Check out this fun video about exponential thinking. It is key to understanding superintelligence and many other things.
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On a more serious note, watch the interesting interview at the AI for Good Summit in Geneva of Wendell Wallach from Yale on Ethics and AI. Wendell confirms the time is ripe to work on regulations.
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Watch the next video on Prioritizing Human Well-Being in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. It was made on April 11, 2017, at an IEEE hosted dinner debate at the European Parliament in Brussels. They discussed the world’s top metric of value (Gross Domestic Product) and how with AI we must move Beyond GDP to holistically measure how intelligent and autonomous systems can hinder or improve human well-being. This is the kind of interdisciplinary approach that we need to take, although we would prefer more participation by the innovators then we see here.
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Future of Life Institute conference panel discussion with Elon Musk, Nick Bostrom, Ray Kurzweil and others speaking. Top level discussion of Superintelligence.
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Elon Musk Speaks About Simulations and Other Topics:
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TED Talk by Ray Kurzweil: Get ready for hybrid thinking. Biology side of AI. Aside from all of the brain talk, it sounds a little bit like Hybrid Multimodal. Expanding your neocortex into computers. AIs are Us.
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Interesting interview at the AI for Good Summit in Geneva of STUART RUSSELL, Professor of Computer Science, UC Berkeley. Talks about the dreaded Midas problem, autonomous AI weapons of mass destruction and other interesting issues.
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Another interesting interview at the AI for Good Summit in Geneva of MOUSTAPHA CISSÉ, Researcher, Facebook. The interview provides a glimpse into Facebook’s concerns and mentions the “white guy” problem.
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Now another interesting interview at the AI for Good Summit in Geneva of DAVID HANSON, Founder and CEO, Hanson Robotic. He talks about the robots they are building that are “human like” … “artificial organisms” and “truly care about people.” David thinks robots may reach a critical threshold during our lifetime where they become “literally alive.” He even said they could attain consciousness in as early as five years. We may have some interesting prostitution and slavery issues in the future.
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Another interesting interview at the AI for Good Summit in Geneva of IRAKLI BERIDZE, Senior Strategy and Policy Advisor of UNICRI. This is the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute. He mentions privacy and the use of AI by terrorists. Regulators in the UN and elsewhere need to understand the risks and benefits of AI and attain the right balance.
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Google’s DeepMind CEO, Demis Hassabis, talk on Artificial Intelligence. Demis shows that Deep Mind learning not only allows AIs to learn from human knowledge, but also create new knowledge. AlphaGo developed its own creativity and intuition and invented new knowledge and strategies for the game of Go. This development and abilities at Go is ten years ahead of predictions.
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Lightning talk given by U. of Washington Law Professor, Ryan Calo, at the AI Now 2017 Experts Workshop on the theme of Rights & Liberties. He lays out a short, intellectual history of the rights and liberties critique of artificial intelligence followed by even briefer thoughts on where the conversation can and should go from here.
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AI & Ethics interview of Iyad Rahwan of the MIT Media Lab by Jennifer Schenker. Who determines the ethical values to be hardwired into AI? Discusses the Trolley Problem, the MIT Moral Machine, etc.
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Tim Urban: “Wait but Why? The Road to Superintelligence” | Talks at Google. Watch a well-spoken blogger, imagine that.Also see his blog posts, blog posts The AI Revolution: The Road to Superintelligence, part one and part two (Wait But Why, January 2015).
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Got two and a half hours? Watch the entire Public Symposium on AI Ethics put on by AI Now at the MIT Media Lab put on July 10, 2017.
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This is slightly off-topic, but consider the insights into consciousness from brain research of Anil Seth who says consciousness requires biological organisms. Anil K Seth is a Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at the University of Sussex. He is Co-Director of the Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science and Editor-in-Chief of Neuroscience of Consciousness. His talk is called Your brain hallucinates your conscious reality. If Seth is right then computers could never attain consciousness, no matter how smart they became, unless they merged with human beings (or other life forms).
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Science magazine brings you AI detectives are cracking open the black box of deep learning (Jul 6, 2017).
