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Future Perfect

Who's afraid of killer robots?

Future Perfect

Vox Media Podcast Network

Politics, Society & Culture, Philosophy, Tech News, News

4.5622 Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2019

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Most charity is focused on the near term. So what happens when you try to only give to charities that will help humans a long time from now — not just in 100 years, but in a million years? To find out, we talk to Jaan Tallinn, a founding engineer of Skype who is trying to force the world to take threats to the future, threats like AI, seriously.Tallinn explains his concern with AI at an effective altruism conferenceKelsey Piper explains the risks of unconstrained AIAI experts on when they expect AI to outpace human intelligenceTed Chiang’s critique of concern with AI safety Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:04.6

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0:10.9

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0:23.7

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0:25.2

As a journalist, I spend a lot of time writing.

0:28.3

It can be frustrating, but it can be really fun and creative and lead you in all kinds of surprising directions.

0:34.7

It feels like it's me at my most human.

0:40.8

But a few months ago, Kelsey Piper,

0:45.9

another reporter here at Vox, showed me something that made me wonder if writing was that human of a skill after all. It's a new artificial intelligence model called GPT2. No relation to other D2s.

0:56.4

It writes unnervingly like a human.

1:01.1

Kelsey got to give GPT2 a spin.

1:03.8

She fed the model a sentence or two,

1:05.7

and then it took it from there and wrote its own paragraph.

1:08.9

See if you can tell where her writing stops and the AI writing

1:12.5

begins. Artificial intelligence is changing our lives in the fastest and most positive way

1:18.4

possible. Artificial intelligence will allow intelligent robots and computers to work alongside us

1:23.8

and can even give us the ability to work alongside other intelligent agents, whether they will be humans or machines. This is the future, and the field of AI is going places

1:32.0

we could only have guessed at.

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