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Today in Focus

How to develop artificial super-intelligence without destroying humanity

Today in Focus

The Guardian

News, Daily News

4.65.9K Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Sam Altman, the founder of the revolutionary application Chat-GPT, is touring Europe with a message: AI is changing the world and there are big risks, but also big potential rewards. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

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0:00.0

This is the Guardian.

0:08.6

Today, the warning that helped to change Rishi's soon-ex mind

0:12.3

about artificial intelligence.

0:20.8

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0:22.6

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0:24.1

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0:26.9

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0:32.9

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0:38.9

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0:43.9

so you can read all about it.

0:45.9

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0:55.9

Last month, the Guardian's UK technology editor, Alex Hurn, came on the show to share a conversation

1:05.9

he had just had with a scientist whose work has made AI possible.

1:09.9

And now, at the end of his career, Geoffrey Hinton was becoming afraid of what he had helped create.

1:20.9

If it gets to be much smarter than us,

1:22.9

it'll be very good at manipulation because it will have learned that from us.

1:26.9

And it knows how to program, so it'll figure out ways of getting round restrictions we put on it.

1:31.9

It'll figure out ways of manipulating people to do what it wants.

1:38.9

A few years ago was one of the inventors of the pioneering technique of deep learning.

1:44.9

In recent years, as the power of that technique has been demonstrated time and again,

1:50.9

Hinton has started getting concerned that we might actually be building something that is smarter than us.

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