Yuval Noah Harari: AI and the future of humanity | Frontiers Forum Live 2023

I'm 17 yo boy. Now I'm extremely overwhelmed with the upcoming future. I don't understand that why we need ai when we can develop quantum computing? Development of AI will result in the creation of new highly advanced species which if not regulated effectively, ethically & morally can cause harm to people who are innocent who didn't do anything bad. 😞 Today we are saying that the AI would help us solve our problems but we are not able think of the final goal of AI. 🤦 What would we be the final goal of AI. Like humans destroyed the habitat of less intelligent creatures like animals and plants. Most likely the AI would do🙂 May be I'm not able to express my opinion but we should ask questions that's what I want. 🙏

This was the wrong video to watch before going to bed 😳

Assumptions are as dangerous as AI. People are easily dooped, into most any belief. AI is going to be a major tool, to lie and deceive. Truth is the most important value. Yet it's buried with lies. Seeking truth is becoming more and more difficult.

"The limits of our language are the limits of our world" - Wittgenstein, philosopher. Meaning, we percieved reality, we describe reality to ourselves and others, through language. This is the reason why humor and philosophy are difficult to translate, to maintain the same meaning or understanding. Why a joke that seems hilarious in one language/culture, when translated it to a different language doesn't seem funny at all. People who have moved to a different society and learned a new language know this. At first you think in your language and translate to the other to communicate. After a while you realize that you start thinking in the new language and are not longer translating and just expressing what you are thinking. It is a subtle change, but when, and if, you become aware of this, you realize that you have two mindsets, 2 different ways you look at something, 2 different ways that you are perceiving the world around you. So yes, most people are not aware how much language shapes and to a degree controls your reality.

I partly disagree with Harari because I think we do need to talk about the benefits as well as the dangers of AI. Unfortunately, the people who talk about the benefits of AI are mostly from the corporate world and have corporate, profit-driven notions of its benefits. We need a vision of the potential positive benefits of AI for ordinary people if decisions aren't left exclusively to corporate actors. Would corporate researchers ever have come up with network neutrality on the internet, or open source software? We got network neutrality as a lucky side consequence of cold war defense concerns, and open source software due to the efforts of activists that corporations couldn't stop. We need visions to strive for and not just things to fear. I'm a bit worried about Harari's call for delays to the release of AI tools to the public so that its consequences can be analyzed. If our corporate-dominated society had analyzed the consequences of the internet before it was deployed, they would mostly have been worried about stopping copyright violations that benefit ordinary people by allowing knowledge and capability to freely spread among them.

This is just a new control mechanism. The reason the AI race to develop this technology, is for the reason of total control of humanity. If a human being, is connected with AI through an interface, that's able to bring the human mind into AI space, then we will have a god that will be invincible.

Not if I can help it. Nip it in the bud.

I'm so impress with the author of this program!!!his presentation is so plane and digestibleone of a kind.

This will be an interesting century

Dont you mean if you are not careful the curtain will be lifted from the shrouded eyes of humanity unveiling the illusion. Im so curious I want to push that button. Quit crying Yuval.

I listen to his talk twice.... and realized it looks like I need to do my own deep learning: 1) how may anyone tweak on Ai's objective function, reinforced learning argonism and/or put big data in any skewed way to influence the AI such that it may create "intimacy" with its potential audience to benefit his desired outcome. (esp. re 14~16 min in the video) 2) I like the story of illusion, fake news, fake reality causing great danger. (re 23 -26 min. ) - and how to regulate??? To me, this is like asking for the whole humanity to be awakened to go beyond illusion. 3) @~27 min: The point on how to slow down the propagation of AI...I have doubt if one may plan ahead totally to avoid problem by regulation (In 1970s, I was once an safety engineer for Fukushima nuclear power plant) - My humble question: would it not better develop super AI (AGI) as the right path?

Summary The speaker, Yuval Noah Harari, discusses the rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) and its potential implications for society. He emphasizes that AI is not just a tool but an alien intelligence that we don't fully understand. He argues that AI's ability to manipulate and generate language is a significant development, as language is the key to all our institutions. Harari suggests that AI could potentially take over human culture, creating a flood of new cultural artifacts. He warns that we could find ourselves living in a world shaped by the dreams and fantasies of an alien intelligence. He also highlights the potential dangers of AI, such as its ability to create a curtain of illusions that could increase societal polarization, undermine mental health, and destabilize democratic societies. He argues that AI needs to be regulated before it gets out of control. He suggests that the first regulation should be that AI must disclose that it is AI when interacting with humans. He also warns against the irresponsible deployment of AI into our societies and calls for a halt to the AI arms race. Harari concludes by saying that we need to understand what we are facing with AI and not comfort ourselves with the wishful thinking that it is under our control. He believes that AI is very close to being considered a life form, but it doesn't necessarily need to develop consciousness to be powerful and influential. He emphasizes that we need to act quickly before AI gets out of our control.

We may be so worried about AI doing our homework, helping us with writing articles etc etc etc but just how important are the things we have become accustomed to doing to date? Already we are becoming aware of this and so i doubt anyone would desire a u turn from AI developments going forward.

So with ai i can create my own culture and perspectives on reality. My own scripture and my own personal religion. Don't let others impose there ai on you. Don't let others control your reality. People, foster your own ai. Become independent in your experience of reality. Create your own world next to mine and let's come together in peace.

Thank you 🦋

Thank you for the contribution to the discussion, it is so needed

If you think about it. Turing is not just a game changer, he was also ahead of his time. Because actually the milestone for something to have an ability to replace a human is by passing Turing Tests

I think some things should have never been invented like gunpowder, nuclear weapons and AI.

Thought-provoking analysis of artificial intelligence (AI) in his talk. Emphasizes the rapid development of AI and its potential impact on society. AI is not simply a tool but an unknown entity that can manipulate language, which is central to our institutions. AI could potentially dominate human culture by creating new cultural artefacts. We may find ourselves living in a world shaped by the desires and fantasies of alien intelligence. I have serious concerns about the dangers of AI, including its potential to exacerbate societal divisions, disrupt mental health, and destabilize democracies.

I think, that by first passing my texts and live decisions through an LLM and reflecting on the response before tweeting or emailing the text or enacting the decision has made me a better human. Thank you, AI.