Megathreat: The Dangers Of AI Are Weirder Than You Think | Yoshua Bengio

The launch of ChatGPT broke records in consecutive months between December 2022 and February 2023. Over 1 billion users a month for ChatGPT, over 100,000 users and $45 million in revenue for Jasper A.I., and the race to adopting A.I. at scale has begun.

Does the global adoption of artificial intelligence have you concerned or apprehensive about what’s to come?

On one hand it’s easy to get caught up in the possibilities of co-existing with A.I. living the enhanced upgraded human experience. We already have tech and A.I. integrated into so many of our daily habits and routines: Apple watches, ora rings, social media algorithms, chat bots, and on and on.

Yoshua Bengio has dedicated more than 30 years of his computer science career to deep learning. He’s an award winning computer scientist known for his breakthroughs in artificial neural networks. Why after 3 decades contributing to the advancement of A.I. systems is Yoshua now calling to slow down the development of powerful A.I. systems?

This conversation is about being open-minded and aware of the dangers of AI we all need to consider from the perspective of one of the world’s leading experts in artificial intelligence.

Conscious computers, A.I. trolls, and the evolution of machines and what it means to be a neural network are just a few of the things you’ll find interesting in this conversation.

QUOTES:

“We need to be maybe much more careful and provide much more of guidance and guardrails in regulation, to minimize potential harm that could come out of more and more powerful systems.”

“I would say misinformation, disinformation is the greatest large-scale danger.”

“With AI becoming more powerful, I think it's time to really accelerate that process of regulating to protect the public, and society.”

“The most important message is that we have reached a point where the precautionary principle needs to kick in quickly.”

“Technology has reached a point where it can be very damaging, and there's too much unknown of how this can happen and when it will happen.”

“I think we can have AI systems that have no goals, no wants, but they're just trained to do good inference, to learn as well as possible about the world from the data they have, and to recalculate to us what are good answers to the questions we're asking.”

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