What We Get Wrong About AI (feat. former Google CEO)

As an European, building this system on "American values instead of Chinese values" sounds pretty much as terrifying to me.

I remember a lot of the recent AI milestones were described as "perpetually 10 years away". It feels so strange it's now upon us.

The Google CEO saying that he wants AI research to go ahead just so China doesn’t get there first is exactly like the arms race all over again, if not more dangerous. I don’t think anyone’s saying we shouldn’t develop AI in the future, I think we just need to understand what it can do and how to control it first

I just want a talking refrigerator named Shelby

"We can't pause AI because we need to give it our political values" - the most terrifying thing I've heard in a long time.

Cleo's enthusiasm is addicting 😍 She could be talking about dirt and make it sound ultra exciting 😁

Cleo, great video! You explained so many complex things in a simple, straightforward way. I'm glad you explained outer alignment: "you get what you ask for, not what you want." However, I was a little disappointed that you didn't cover inner alignment. If you punish your child for lying to you, you don't know if s/he learned "don't lie" or "don't lie and get caught." AI safety researchers trained an AI in a game where it could pick up keys and open chests. They rewarded it for each chest it would open. However, there were typically fewer keys than chests, so it made sense to gather all the keys and open as many chests as it could. Which normally wouldn't be a problem, except when they put it in environments with more keys than chests, it would still gather all the keys first. That's suboptimal, not devastating, but it demonstrates that you can't really tell what an AI learned internally. So AI might kill us because we didn't specify something correctly, or it might kill us because it learned something differently from what we thought. Or it might become super-intelligent, and we can't even understand why it decides to kill us.

I've messed with basic AI, and to me it seems computers think so differently you don't know what they will do with the instructions until you give them said instructions. They need to be tested, ideally in a simulation, then on a small scale, then on the intended scale. Much like everything else.

As a tech guy, I am constantly asked about AI and what it can do. I am just going to send this video as a primer for people now. This is fantastically done

There's an important point that this short video almost touches on but doesn't explore, and it's one of most serious dangers of AI. Cleo mentions that AI gets to the result but we don't understand how it did. What this means is that we also don't understand the ways it catastrophically fails, sometimes with the smallest deviation applied to its inputs. An adversarial attack is when you take a valid input (a photo for example) that you know the output for (let's say the label "panda"). Then you make tiny changes in just the right places, in ways that even you can't see because they're so small on the pixel level, and now the AI says this is a photo of a gibbon. Now imagine your car's AI getting confused on the road and deciding to veer off into traffic. I hope Cleo covers this, because it's really important. To learn more, look up "AI panda gibbon" online and you'll find images about this research.

For me, the most important reason for AI to be used is to help the physically challenged people, and to figure out the secretes of the Universe. That will be helpful for basically everyone. It'll be tough to get there, but it'll be worth it if done correctly.

I would love to see how AI can assist with research with diseases such as Parkinson’s disease or MS

I love Cleo's take on journalism: Optimistic but not naive! It is not only informative but also inspiring! ❤

The metaphor with the trolley problem is flipped. We are straight headed into one AI future, and would have to steer really hard, if we want to avoid one.

Very first video I have seen of yours. Great content! I had to pause at the credits to say nice job and thank you for the awesome stuff. I loved hearing from Mr. Schmidt, the video editing, artwork, and animations were really well done so I wanted to shout out the entire team. Awesome job Cleo, Justin, Logen, Nicole, and Whitney! Amazing team you got. I can't wait to watch more <3

Super thought engaging videos. I love this very personal style of compiling hard facts and deep questions into a super compact format. Very well done!

As always, a well balanced and honest look into something that’s very confusing. Love this show!

AI itself never looked like a bad thing to me, it was always the way people used it that looked troubling. For example how some use it to create "art" by training the AI with images that they had no legal right to use. Over all AI can be an amazing thing it's just that with it's development we should also have new laws so it can't be misused, at least in ways that we know of.

🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation: 00:00 🤖 Introduction to the AI discussion - Setting the stage for the AI discussion and the various opinions about its impact. 00:26 🧐 The need for specific information about AI - The desire to understand the specific ways AI can affect individuals' lives and society as a whole. 00:55 ♟️ Explaining the transformation of AI through AlphaZero - Discussing the shift from rule-based algorithms to AI that learns through observation. 02:24 🧠 Introduction to machine learning - Explaining the concept of machine learning and its significance in the AI field. 03:24 💻 The role of computing power in AI advancement - Highlighting the exponential growth in computing power as a driving force behind AI progress. 05:12 ☠️ Concerns about AI's potential dangers - Addressing the fear of AI posing existential risks and its comparison to nuclear war and pandemics. 06:33 🔮 The concept of AI specification gaming - Discussing how AI may optimize for a given goal at the expense of unintended consequences. 07:56 ⏸️ Debate on pausing AI development - Weighing the pros and cons of pausing AI development, considering global competition. 09:21 🌟 The positive potential of AI in pattern matching - Exploring AI's ability to excel in pattern matching and its potential to address complex problems. 10:44 🧬 AI's remarkable achievement in protein structure prediction - Highlighting AI's contribution to solving challenging problems in biology and medicine. 11:40 🛤️ Navigating the uncertainty of AI's impact - Reflecting on the ambiguity of AI's consequences and the importance of making informed choices. Made with

I can't help but compare - especially upon watching Oppenheimer - the creation of nuclear weapons to the creation of AI. Both are double edged swords (nuclear powerplants), could be dangerous and the reasoning is always if we don't do it, somone with worse intentions will.