SI visiting fellow Diego Caleiro gives a TED talk on Friendly AI
Diego Caleiro, a past SI visiting fellow and current leader of a transhumanist institution in Brazil, recently delivered this TED@SaoPaulo talk on Friendly AI and Effective Altruism. If it goes viral, it has a chance to be selected for TED Global. (The importance thing is to have lots of positive comments on the TED page, methinks.) TED Global’s talks reach on average 40,000 viewers within the first 24 hours, and 500,000 within half a year.
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I think he needed to rehearse this 2 more times and do warmups before going onstage. The middle was great though :D
The section on AI could be refined a bit for fewer audience prerequisites. For example, you could even drop the idea of self-improvement and singularity:
“At some point, it’s likely that someone is going to create a very powerful artificial intelligence—an AI. This would be a program running on silicon that can think faster than a human—it would be a great planner, a great scientist, maybe even great at programming, so it could upgrade itself. If this AI wants to help humanity, this will be very good, but if it doesn’t this has the potential the be a catastrophe. If the AI does not value human freedom, it will end up harming it—it’s like pollution, where if you don’t carefully make things non-toxic you hurt the environment—if you don’t care about love or art or teamwork, then you’ll do things that are toxic to them, just because you’re not being careful. So the safety-conscious person says ‘let’s not take the risk—this is too dangerous a toy to play with’.” [Insert rest of talk]
Hello Lesswrongers, please besides commenting on the original talk linked above do take time to do what Manfred just did and suggest improvements for the TED, if it goes global, it will have many more minutes and I could add suggested content.
But it only goes global if you actually go there and comment on it.
Thanks Manfred
Given his previous poorly written “Trouble with CEV” ramblings, this is a pretty decent talk. Of course, his example of counterfactual reasoning only works when most people do not use it (the assumption was that someone else almost as good, would become a doctor instead, which breaks down if everyone thinks this way and chooses a different career path). This is like applying counter-factual reasoning to voting and staying home, which results in dismal participation rates.
My prediction is that it is unlikely that a majority of people will use counterfactual reasoning in relevant decisions before a singularity or human extinction.
Even if a majority did it, it would still be profitable to have an even larger majority using it. So I wouldn’t worry about the issue of others doing the same. In the same way I don’t worry about everyone going to the same movie I decided to watch.
I still think though that the same format of argument should be valid for making a positive commentary on it. If the Less Wrong crowd doesn’t do so, who will? Assuming of course, that people would like a TED global containing 7 minutes on friendly AI and 7 minutes on Effective Altruism, which may not be the case.