#49 - AGI: Could The End Be Nigh? (With Rosie Campbell)
Increments
English - March 22, 2023 17:15 - 1 hour - 77.7 MBPhilosophy Society & Culture Science philosophy science ethics progress knowledge computer science conversation error-correction Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
When big bearded men wearing fedoras begin yelling at you that the end is nigh (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gA1sNLL6yg4&ab_channel=BanklessShows) and superintelligence is about to kill us all, what should you do? Vaden says don't panic, and Ben is simply awestruck by the ability to grow a beard in the first place.
To help us think through the potential risks and rewards of ever more impressive machine learning models, we invited Rosie Campbell on the podcast. Rosie is on the safety team at OpenAI and, while she's more worried about the existential risks of AI than we are, she's just as keen on some debate over a bottle of wine.
We discuss:
- Whether machine learning poses an existential threat
- How concerned we should be about existing AI
- Whether deep learning can get us to artificial general intelligence (AGI)
- If AI safety is simply quality assurance
- How can we test if an AI system is creative?
References:
- Mathgen: Randomly generated math papers (https://thatsmathematics.com/mathgen/)
Contact us
- Follow us on Twitter at @IncrementsPod, @BennyChugg, @VadenMasrani
- Follow Rosie at @RosieCampbell or https://www.rosiecampbell.xyz/
- Check us out on youtube at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_4wZzQyoW4s4ZuE4FY9DQQ
- Come join our discord server! DM us on twitter or send us an email to get a supersecret link
Prove you're creative by inventing the next big thing and then send it to us at [email protected]
Special Guest: Rosie Campbell.
When big bearded men wearing fedoras begin yelling at you that the end is nigh and superintelligence is about to kill us all, what should you do? Vaden says don't panic, and Ben is simply awestruck by the ability to grow a beard in the first place.
To help us think through the potential risks and rewards of ever more impressive machine learning models, we invited Rosie Campbell on the podcast. Rosie is on the safety team at OpenAI and, while she's more worried about the existential risks of AI than we are, she's just as keen on some debate over a bottle of wine.
We discuss:
Whether machine learning poses an existential threat
How concerned we should be about existing AI
Whether deep learning can get us to artificial general intelligence (AGI)
If AI safety is simply quality assurance
How can we test if an AI system is creative?
References:
Mathgen: Randomly generated math papers
Contact us
Follow us on Twitter at @IncrementsPod, @BennyChugg, @VadenMasrani
Follow Rosie at @RosieCampbell or https://www.rosiecampbell.xyz/
Check us out on youtube at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_4wZzQyoW4s4ZuE4FY9DQQ
Come join our discord server! DM us on twitter or send us an email to get a supersecret link
Prove you're creative by inventing the next big thing and then send it to us at [email protected]
Special Guest: Rosie Campbell.