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🗓️ 20 March 2021
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Brian Christian is a programmer, researcher and an author.
You have a computer system, you want it to do X, you give it a set of examples and you say "do that" - what could go wrong? Well, lots apparently, and the implications are pretty scary.
Expect to learn why it's so hard to code an artificial intelligence to do what we actually want it to, how a robot cheated at the game of football, why human biases can be absorbed by AI systems, the most effective way to teach machines to learn, the danger if we don't get the alignment problem fixed and much more...
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0:00.0 | Hello friends, welcome back. My guest today is Brian Christian and we're talking about AI's scary challenge the alignment problem. |
0:09.0 | Let's say that you have a computer system and you want it to do X. |
0:13.0 | You give it a set of examples and you say, well, do do that. What could go wrong? Well, lots, apparently. And the implications are quite terrifying. |
0:22.0 | So today, expect to learn why it's so hard to code an artificial intelligence to do what we actually want it to. How a robot cheated at the game of football, how human biases can be absorbed by AI systems, the most effective way to teach machines to learn, the danger if we don't get the alignment problem fixed and much more. |
0:43.0 | This is a topic I think everybody should be educated on as the world becomes increasingly dependent on artificial intelligence. You need to understand the implications if we have a civilization built upon machine learning when we don't know that the machines are actually going to be aligned with what we want them to do. |
1:02.0 | So today, hopefully your curiosity will be satisfied and your pants might be pooped a little bit because quite, quite grave and quite scary if we don't get this right. |
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4:58.0 | But now it's time to learn about the alignment problem with Brian Christian. |
5:21.0 | What does the quote premature optimization is the root of all evil mean. |
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