Why an AI Pioneer Is Worried

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🗓️ 19 December 2023

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Yoshua Bengio, known as a godfather of AI, is one of hundreds of researchers and tech leaders calling for a pause in the breakneck development of powerful new AI tools. We talk to the AI pioneer about how the tools evolved and why he's worried about their potential. Further Listening: - Artificial: Episode 1, The Dream - Artificial: Episode 2, Selling Out - OpenAI’s Weekend of Absolute Chaos Further Reading: - How Worried Should We Be About AI’s Threat to Humanity? Even Tech Leaders Can’t Agree - ‘Take Science Fiction Seriously’: World Leaders Sound Alarm on AI Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This year one thing that a lot of people have been talking about is AI.
0:11.0	Artificial Intelligence.
0:13.0	All right, artificial intelligence has been the story of
0:16.0	2023, right?
0:18.0	I had Chaggy PT write my graduation speech.
0:21.0	Groundbreaking year for artificial intelligence. nation's
0:23.4	groundbreaking year for artificial intelligence.
0:23.6	Today I let chat you BT control an entire college day of my life.
0:27.8	And because so many of us are new to AI,
0:32.2	we wanted to call up someone who's been thinking about it for decades.
0:36.9	And you are referred to as one of the Godfathers of AI. Is this a title that you like that you use?
0:47.0	No.
0:50.0	That's
0:55.0	considered one of the Godfathers of AI because his work helped lay the foundation for
1:00.1	many of the AI models in use today.
1:04.8	Why did you get into AI?
1:07.5	Intelligence has always sounded like so incredible
1:11.6	and mysterious and important because it's what's special about us and what allows us to do great things.
1:21.0	Understanding that was
1:22.5	was and building computers that would be intelligent,
1:25.5	that was so exciting.
1:28.0	It still is.
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