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- 0050: Paths to AGI #3: Personal Assistants
This is our 3rd episode in a series where we’re speculating about the future of several different kinds or methods for narrow AI.
Future Topics:
- AGI as Labor vs. Capital
- Robotics (yes, we covered that in 0047, but Ted thinks not well)
- Non-player characters
See also:
- 0046: Paths to AGI #1: Tools
- 0047: Paths to AGI #2: Robots
http://traffic.libsyn.com/friendlyai/ConcerningAI-episode-0050-2017-08-20.mp3Concerning AI | Existential Risk From Artificial Intelligence is made with Jetpack Podcast. Full show notes and every episode at https://concerning.ai/
0 min - 0049: After On by Rob Reid
We highly recommend you read After On by Rob Reid before listening to this episode where we interview Rob Reid, author or After On! We tried to keep the spoilers to a minimum so if you’d like to listen a bit and then decide to read the book, that should work too.
Works cited:
- Bostrom’s Superintelligence
- Barret’s Our Final Invention
- Webb’s If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens … WHERE IS EVERYBODY? (pdf version)
- Gattaca (movie)
Rob’s links:
- @rob_reid on Twitter
- after-on.com
- After On podcast
http://traffic.libsyn.com/friendlyai/ConcerningAI-episode-0049-2017-09-08.mp3Concerning AI | Existential Risk From Artificial Intelligence is made with Jetpack Podcast. Full show notes and every episode at https://concerning.ai/
0 min - 0047: Paths to AGI #2: Robots
This is our 2nd episode thinking about possible paths to superintelligence focusing on one kind of narrow AI each show. This episode is about embodiment and robots. It’s possible we never really agreed about what we were talking about and need to come back to robots.
Future ideas for this series include:
- personal assistants (Siri, Alexa, etc)
- non-player characters
- search engines (or maybe those just fall under tools
- social networks or other big data / working on completely different time / size scale from humans
- collective intelligence
- simulation
- whole-brain emulation
- augmentation (computer / brain interface)
- self-driving cars
See also:
- 0050: Paths to AGI #3: Personal Assistants
- 0046: Paths to AGI #1: Tools
- Robots learning to pick stuff up
- Roomba mapping
http://traffic.libsyn.com/friendlyai/ConcerningAI-episode-0047-2017-08-06.mp3Concerning AI | Existential Risk From Artificial Intelligence is made with Jetpack Podcast. Full show notes and every episode at https://concerning.ai/
0 min - 0048: AI XPrize and Thrival Festival (special mini-episode)
Kenny Chen joins Ted to talk about the IBM Watson AI XPrize, the wildcard process for teams wishing to join the competition, the pitch day aspect of the wildcard process and the upcoming Thrival Festival (Sept 27-30). In first two days are the Innovation part of the festival. This year’s theme is “Intelligence: Humans X Tech” where Ted will be moderating a panel entitled “Skynet or Shangri-La? The Role of AI Ethics & Policy in Shaping Our Future.” Hope to see you there!
- Info on IBM Watson AI XPRIZE
- Info on/Sign up for Wild Card Pitch opportunities
- Thrival Festival website
- Thrival Innovation ticket page (Discount code: CONCERNINGAI for 50% off)
- #AIforGood
- June’s AI for Good Global Summit
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0 min - 0046: Paths to AGI #1: Tools
If we speculate about how we might get to AGI from what we see from narrow AI today, do we learn anything? On this show we mentioned the following:
- Google
- Self-driving cars
- Embodiment (robots)
- Whole brain emulation
- Digital assistants
- Brain-computer interface (augmentation path)
and then went deeper on these:
- AlphaGo
- Input -> Output function
- I believe Deep Mind calls this Deep Learning. This is neural networks adjusting the strength of various connections, similar to the way human brains adjust neural pathways over time.
- Reinforcement learning
- How might embodiment make a difference here?
- Many problem-specific narrow AIs that are rewarded by the marketplace
Conclusion: Tools are a dead end with respect to creating AGI. Future episodes will take on robots, digital assistants, etc.
See also:
- 0050: Paths to AGI #3: Personal Assistants
- 0047: Paths to AGI #2: Robots
http://traffic.libsyn.com/friendlyai/ConcerningAI-episode-0046-2017-07-08.mp3Concerning AI | Existential Risk From Artificial Intelligence is made with Jetpack Podcast. Full show notes and every episode at https://concerning.ai/
0 min - 0045: We Enjoy Our Stories
Seems no one reads these notes, so my laziness compels me to not write them. Let us know if I’m wrong about that.
edit: Eric wrote in (thanks Eric!) with the link for his stories. http://wiki.solseed.org/Stories#Eric
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0 min - 0044: Nexus Trilogy
Does anyone read this? If so, drop a line to [email protected] to let us know. Otherwise, all I can say is we talked about the Nexus Trilogy of novels as a way to further our thinking about the wizard hat idea Tim Urban wrote about in his article about Elon Musk’s Neuralink.
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0 min - 0043: Not a Propeller Hat Episode
Does anyone read these notes? If so, record a voice memo on your phone and email it to [email protected] and tell us the value of the notes and/or the show. Thanks!
Also, we’re likely to talk about these novels at some point, in case you’d like to read before we do: Nexus Trilogy
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0 min - 0042: Listener Feedback
No time for show notes this week. If you’d like to create them for us, please email them to [email protected] and I’ll drop them in here.
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0 min - 0041: Can Neuralink Save Us?
Tim Urban’s article at Wait But Why: Neuralink and the Brain’s Magical Future
Bike Rack: Engineering trumps science.
Join the conversation.
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Is there an existential risk from Human-level (and beyond) Artificial Intelligence? If so, what can we do about it?
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