Black Box: shut it down? – episode 7

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Society & Culture, Documentary

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

For decades, Eliezer Yudkowsky has been trying to warn the world about the dangers of AI. And now people are finally listening to him. But is it too late?

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0:00.0	This is The Guardian.
0:10.4	Today on Black Box, two visions for the future of AI.
0:16.5	Why humanity may be doomed and why that may be an overreaction.
0:27.6	Hey, it's Babberton de Alessi here.
0:31.6	I've just got back from an epic road trip around the island of Ireland.
0:35.6	From exploring natural wonders and stunning cost of views to chilling in a seaweed bath.
0:41.7	It's a vibe.
0:43.8	Best of all, you don't have to pick between the Causeway coastal routes and the Wild Atlantic Way.
0:49.0	You can experience both iconic routes in one unforgettable trip.
0:53.6	Explore everything Ireland has to offer at the Guardian.com forward slash tourism island.
0:59.0	This message was paid for by Tourism Island.
1:05.1	This is a story about the end of the world.
1:13.0	And it starts with a joke.
1:18.3	About two years ago, the scientist Jeffrey Hinton, one of the godfathers of AI, was working at Google, tinkering with a program most people haven't heard of.
1:28.3	There was a modeling Google called Palm, P-A-L-M.
1:31.3	It was basically a Google version of Chat G-P-T, never released to the public.
1:37.3	It was just research.
1:38.3	And Hinton was checking it out when it did something that terrified him.
1:43.3	Palm could explain why jokes were funny. Not all jokes, but quite a few of them.
1:47.0	Here's one of the jokes it could explain. It's someone saying,
1:51.0	I was going to fly in to visit my family on April 6th. And my mum said, oh great, your stepdad's
1:57.0	poitory reading is that night. So now I'm flying in April 7th.
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