4 . Fear and Hope at the Dawn of the Age of AI
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Show Notes
I talk with Michael Porcelli about reasons to fear and hope as we enter a new period of history, the Age of AI.
Topics include
- What's happening right now?
- An overview of the technology, how it works and what makes it different from previous computing technologies
- The good news / bad news of technology
- Economics and copyright
- Searching for depth
- Implications for Art
- Machine Consciousness
- The alignment problem
- Intelligence explosion
- And then we get into some more Sci Fi stuff at the end there
This is obviously an extremely timely topic, and I think it’s an important one, technologically, politically, philosophically and spiritually.
References
Some things we reference
WarGames
Adversarial Policies Beat Superhuman Go AIs
And two things that are extremely relevant to the conversation that we didn’t reference because they happened after we recorded
Pausing AI Developments Isn't Enough. We Need to Shut it All Down - Eliezer Yudkowsky
Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: Early experiments with GPT-4