AI.
The concept of AI it's something that I think we're all familiar with
Thanks to numerous amount of TV shows, movies and novels
For me personally I find this to be sort of a tired
concept at this point. You've just seen it so many times in sci-fi.
And especially the idea that AI is going to take over.
We've seen in it "Terminator"
But I also seen this in some of my favorite work of fiction like "A Space Odyssey"
I'm sorry Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that
Some of my favorite novels like I have no mouth when I'm with scream. Don't get me wrong. I find it a very
interesting concept even though it's overused, but when Stephen Hawkins in 2014 came out and said
My mind sort of went Stephen Hawkins, what do you know about?
Anything okay?
Do you watch Rick and Morty because I do and I think I have a little better grasp of the universe
Concept ideas like AI thank you very much Stephen
But stick to your science stuff all right the concept of AI taking over. It's feels so far off because it seems so
Obscure the way, it's portrayed in Hollywood movies or in the work of fiction
But in reality it's actually I think or from what I've learned an
Actual threat the idea that Johnny Depp could come back and kill us all it's not as far away as we think
My god. It's that my mind has been said feeling despair. I need more power
But how did we come to this conclusion
I'm gonna try and explain okay, but I truly don't know shit
Well of what I'm talking about so please if we take it back a couple steps a lot a couple steps. There's this game of
tic-tac-toe
That I found that no matter what input you make
You will the computer will never
Let you win. It's kind of fucking annoying
It's programmed with
algorithms so that
No matter what move I make and it was exactly what moved to counter it to make sure that I can't win no matter what?
Not a big deal, not a big deal. Okay in
1958 a che Simon and Alan Newell AI experts
But what if you take a more complex game than tic-tac-toe say chess for examples?
There's a lot more possible outcomes in that game first saw that within ten years a digital computer will beat
The world's best chess champion now. It didn't take ten years not until
1997 you may have heard of this it was quite the
Big deal at the time deep blue became the first computer that was able to be the reigning chess champion at the time casparo
but it's clear that the computer will reliably do what he himself would do and he
Recognizes that he has already lost on deep blues 19th move the champion resigns
Now it still doesn't seem like that big of a deal and basically the way deep-blue worked was that it would scan
every single possible outcome it could make about
200,000 per second
And it would make the best decision based on what he could find through through this method of scanning at this point
I'm still like Stephen Hawking
I've seen the videos of the machines falling over okay
I think we have nothing to worry about but here's where I think it gets interesting in March 15 2016
The champion of the Chinese board game go was beaten by an AI against alphago
the artificial intelligence designed by google's deepmind
It was a resounding loss
They had won only one game alphago wins we landed it on the moon so proud of the team
Respect to the amazing lee sedol too now the reason why this is such a big deal
Is that in chess you only have so many options?
but in go
There are so many different moves that you can make that there are more
Possible moves that you can make then there are atoms in the universe and there's no way that you're going to be able to compute
That amount of options to figure out
What's the best move to make so how did they make this it may not seem like that big of a deal either?
But it's really cool. Okay. It's really cool. It basically uses deep reinforcement learning which is similar to how we learn as humans
through trial and error reward and Punishment and raw inputs
Say if we see something ourselves
The computer figure learns itself how to become good at the game not too long ago
there was a viral video of
From sethbling that uses method to teach a computer to play Mario and it became really fuckin good at it
Really good at it
Look at that
Basically a used neural networks to learn how to play the game
which is similar to how we think as human beings and with enough computing power you could simulate a
Human brain in this way, but we're not there yet
But it wasn't good from the beginning it had to learn how to get good get good in the beginning. It doesn't even know where
Has to go or what the option is or what Mario is but eventually it figures out it needs to move right, but through different
generations and learning and from trial and error and adapting from these mistakes
It eventually becomes better and better and the similar method was used for the alphago
Program where it would train against itself slowly becoming better and better and better and eventually a master at the game
There's a super cool video about a robot that doesn't know
That it has limps
But it teaches itself how to walk despite of this so it's just doing random movements
It sort of figures out it has four limbs
But it doesn't know where those limbs on its body is attached and by trial and error it eventually figures out
Where is limbs are?
Positioned and eventually it can very graciously
Move across that's cool
Self learning AI is really fuckin cool
And there's a lot of advantages that you can do from this using it in design for example
This is a 3d printed cabin partition. That's been designed by a computer
It's stronger than the original yet half the weight and it'll be flying the Airbus a320 later this year
So computers can now generate they can come up with their own solutions to our well-defined
Problems so then with Elon Musk as well as Stephen Hawking saying AI could become a problem in the in the future
That idea starts to sort of make more sense to me knowing this is how it works
I think we should be very careful about artificial intelligence
if I would guess at what our biggest existential threat is
It's probably that
Elon Musk as well as Bill Gates
Chiming in as well with the same idea
That evolution has endowed us with and it's funny in
Slow computer
very limited memory size
ability to send a man to other computers this mountain air and
but it's also whenever we bear a new one and
It doesn't know how to walk three tries. Yeah, so believe me as soon as this algorithm
Taking experience and turning it into knowledge
Which is so amazing of course? We have not done in in software as soon as you do that
It's not clear you'll even
Even know when you're just at the human level you'll be at this superhuman level
Almost as soon as that algorithm is implanted in
Siliguri bill basically here come it compares. How our brains as a computer our
method of evolving is
very inefficient with
Comparing it to how AI would be evolving and exponentially growing and knowing and keeping that in mind
humans are inferior
Without a doubt that
Being said not everyone is on board with this idea that AI is going to take over or that. It's a
Problem for the future. What are your thoughts on AI and how it could affect the world?
You know I have I have pretty
Strong opinions on this I'm really optimistic right I'm an optimistic person in general
I think you can build things and and the world gets better, but
with AI especially I'm really optimistic, and I think that people who are
Naysayers and and kind of try to drum up these doomsday scenarios are I?
Just I don't understand it. I think it's it's it's really
Negative and it and in some ways I actually think it's it's pretty irresponsible. Yeah, hey
Elon Musk responding on Twitter I've talked to marked about this his understanding of the subject is limited
Hi mom Mark Zuckerberg
Obviously, I love the suck more than anyone
It's kind of hard to take him seriously on the subject especially since he clearly is trying to
Make an AI himself good morning mark. It's Saturday. So you only have five meetings
Room temperature is set to a cool
68 degrees I guess what Mark is saying
It's a I can do a lot for us as humans it can benefit us greatly
And I think what Elin points out is that?
There are dangers involved with the development on this and we need to be careful. How can we protect ourselves from ourselves?
We are an intelligent adversary we can anticipate threats and plan around them
But so could an super intelligent agent how confident could would be that
The a I couldn't find a bug like given that merely human hackers find bugs all the time
I'd say probably not very confident like disconnect Ethernet cable to create an air gap
But again like merely human hackers routinely transgress air gaps using social engineering like right now as I speak
I'm sure there is some employee out there somewhere who is being talked into
Handing out her account details by somebody claiming to be from the IT
Department we should not be confident in our ability to keep a super intelligence genie locked up in its bottle forever
I'm actually fairly optimistic that this problem can be solved like we wouldn't have to
Try to write down the long list of everything we care about or or worse yet
Spell it out in some computer language like C++ or Python like that
That would be a task beyond hopeless instead we would create an AI
that uses these intelligence to learn what we value and
His motivation system is constructed in such a way
That it is
Motivated to pursue our values or to perform actions that it predicts that we would have approved of computers smarter than human beings is
Inevitable if you keep in mind how short we have even had technology and our presence in the universe
Now whether AI will be something good or or destroy us all in the future
That's just for us to find out meanwhile
You're gonna have to excuse me because I have some Rick and Morty episodes to catch up on I hope this video was
Educational and I hope I didn't say any wrong things because I sure AM no expert
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