meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
Tom Bilyeu's Impact Theory

Megathreat: The Dangers Of AI Are Weirder Than You Think | Yoshua Bengio

Tom Bilyeu's Impact Theory

Impact Theory

Education, News, News Commentary, Philosophy, Technology, Society & Culture, Business, Self-improvement

4.75.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2023

⏱️ 88 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

The launch of ChatGPT broke records in consecutive months between December 2022 and February 2023. Over 1 billion users a month for ChatGPT, over 100,000 users and $45 million in revenue for Jasper A.I., and the race to adopting A.I. at scale has begun. Does the global adoption of artificial intelligence have you concerned or apprehensive about what’s to come? On one hand it’s easy to get caught up in the possibilities of co-existing with A.I. living the enhanced upgraded human experience. We already have tech and A.I. integrated into so many of our daily habits and routines: Apple watches, ora rings, social media algorithms, chat bots, and on and on. Yoshua Bengio has dedicated more than 30 years of his computer science career to deep learning. He’s an award winning computer scientist known for his breakthroughs in artificial neural networks. Why after 3 decades contributing to the advancement of A.I. systems is Yoshua now calling to slow down the development of powerful A.I. systems? This conversation is about being open-minded and aware of the dangers of AI we all need to consider from the perspective of one of the world’s leading experts in artificial intelligence. Conscious computers, A.I. trolls, and the evolution of machines and what it means to be a neural network are just a few of the things you’ll find interesting in this conversation. QUOTES: “We need to be maybe much more careful and provide much more of guidance and guardrails in regulation, to minimize potential harm that could come out of more and more powerful systems.” “I would say misinformation, disinformation is the greatest large-scale danger.” “With AI becoming more powerful, I think it's time to really accelerate that process of regulating to protect the public, and society.” “The most important message is that we have reached a point where the precautionary principle needs to kick in quickly.” “Technology has reached a point where it can be very damaging, and there's too much unknown of how this can happen and when it will happen.” “I think we can have AI systems that have no goals, no wants, but they're just trained to do good inference, to learn as well as possible about the world from the data they have, and to recalculate to us what are good answers to the questions we're asking.” Follow Yoshua Bengio: Website: https://yoshuabengio.org/ RESTART your life in 7 days: http://bit.ly/42KM8OR Click here to download your FREE guide to 100x YOUR EFFICIENCY IN 10 EASY STEPS: https://bit.ly/3F8qOJL Sponsors: This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at http://www.betterhelp.com/impacttheory and get on your way to being your best self. Visit http://www.houseofmacadmais.com/impact and use code impact for 20% off all purchases, and for a limited time a complimentary bottle of cold-pressed Extra Virgin macadamia oil! Get 3lbs of Bone-in Chicken Thighs FOR FREE in every box, for a year, on top of $20 off your first order, when you go to butcherbox.com/impact and use code IMPACT Find Tools and Weapons with Brad Smith wherever you like to listen to podcasts. Get 20% OFF with our code IMPACT at calderalab.com/IMPACT. Unlock your youthful glow and be ready for summer with Caldera Lab!: Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

What's up guys, I'm really excited for today's episode because I got to sit down with one of the leading experts in artificial intelligence,

0:07.0

Yasuo Benjiyo, he's one of the people that signed the letter asking for a

0:11.8

maritorium to be placed on AI development, and in this episode we get all into what he's worried about,

0:18.6

what he's excited about, where he thinks the future of AI is going, and let me tell you,

0:23.0

it is not going where any of us think, and the ability to hear it directly from somebody so well versed in this area

0:29.2

was incredibly enlightening and sobering, AI is a field that is moving so quickly, and if you're not paying attention right now,

0:36.8

you will get left behind, or possibly even expose yourself to dangers unnecessarily.

0:42.6

This is the kind of episode that I always am excited to do because it is so relevant to what's going on right now,

0:48.8

and got me in front of one of the most important thinkers on the topic.

0:53.2

So guys, I hope that you enjoy listening to this episode on AI, the future, and the dangers as much as I enjoyed recording it,

1:01.0

and if you did, please pass it on, tell other people about it, subscribe to the show, like it, rate review, do all the things.

1:09.8

Alright guys, I'm Tom Billiou, and welcome to Impact Theory.

1:13.2

I want to start with a quote from Ilya Satsukiver, he said, for people that don't know, he's a co-founder of OpenAI,

1:19.8

he said, it may be that today's large general networks are slightly conscious.

1:24.8

So I want to pose that question to you, are computers becoming conscious right now?

1:29.8

I think it's a question that doesn't make much sense, because we don't even have a clear scientific understanding of what conscious means.

1:41.8

So based on that, I would say no, there are lots of properties of our consciousness that are missing.

1:50.8

What it means to be conscious, in other words, what sort of computations are going on in our brain when we become conscious of something?

1:59.8

And how that is related to notions, for example, of self or relations to others.

2:10.8

And our thoughts emerge and how they are related to each other.

2:16.8

All kinds of clues we have about consciousness, including how it's implemented in your circuits that are completely missing in large language models.

2:26.8

Alright, as we think about consciousness from an evolutionary standpoint, we think about its utility.

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Impact Theory, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Impact Theory and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.