Is Artificial Intelligence already self-aware? Skyler and Thomas discuss the current state of AI and future predictions. Will we survive?

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“Why AI Is The Most Dangerous Thing You Can Imagine Right Now”

https://youtu.be/R_5sAburz5Q

- All accumulated knowledge doubles every year

- More progress has been made in the past 50 years than all of human history combined / next 10 years will be more than the previous 50

- AI - can make new AI

- 90% of analysts say the Singularity will be by 2040 and some say even by 2029

- 2 Facebook AI chatbots, Bob and Alice, were created and they started talking to each other in a language we can’t understand

“Artificial Intelligence: It Will Kill Us”

https://youtu.be/BrNs0M77Pd4

- It operates itself and develops itself already

- AI’s can already recognize tumors inside human bodies better than doctors

- The AI systems create a million terabytes of data per day

- Facial recognition technology has been developed to recognize you from above because of drones

- There are now drones who have an LED bottom and cameras on top that record the sky and project that on the bottom of the drone

- AI systems have already deposited back-up systems all over the world in all kinds of systems

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“Deepfake Videos Are Getting Terrifyingly Real I NOVA I PBS”

https://youtu.be/T76bK2t2r8g

- AI is able to generate the imagery and the voice “Machine learning”

- Putting mouse on the chin of the Ronald Reagan and moving his head around side-to-side, up and down so you could create original movements that look natural

- Pay someone $20 to create deep fake of

- Creating revenge porn

- Don’t have to fool millions of people (80,000 votes for the popular election between Trump and Hillary)

- Fun versus weaponization

- Fed Gov spending a lot of money to combat it (also probably use it on “enemies”)

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“Roko's Basilisk: The Most Terrifying Thought Experiment”

https://youtu.be/ut-zGHLAVLI

- Basilisk is a mythical beast that could kill a human with its gaze alone.

- Hyper intelligent entity

- A sufficiently powerful AI could recreate and simulate all human history and experience

- Just thinking about this concept means the “basilisk” has seen you and you can’t escape

- Sir Thomas Brown in the 16th Century hypothesized on the Basilisk and he said our eyes would be the way the Basilisk would interpret our choices before we made them because eyes send out light beams of choice

“What was Bentham's panopticon? A computer model”

https://youtu.be/Myal-NSlIGA

“The ideal prison.”

300 prisons in the world use this design

“What does the panopticon mean in the age of digital surveillance?”

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jul/23/panopticon-digital-surveillance-jeremy-bentham

- Bentham’s cadaver is on display with a wax head

- A camera records all who approaches and broadcasts them online

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“4 Experiments Where the AI Outsmarted Its Creators“

https://youtu.be/GdTBqBnqhaQ

“OpenAI Plays Hide and Seek…and Breaks The Game!”

https://youtu.be/Lu56xVlZ40M

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