Name: Should We Be Fearful of Artificial Intelligence?
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Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Should We Be Fearful of Artificial Intelligence?' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-04-19. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Should We Be Fearful of Artificial Intelligence?' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-04-19. Transcript available.

The Joe Rogan Experience
I think some people do and that's the real fear some people like this guy who's
advocating for a digital God
Like they do know where it's going because but it's actually work in technology.
It's not freaking them out
But it's like Columbus, you know, like everybody thought the world was flat
He got a couple of people to get on a boat and fly and we didn't know what that
was gonna mean
See if we can find where Elon talks about this part because that was the most
fascinating to me
The reason open I exist at all. This is what he said earlier, but it's gonna. I
used to be close friends
And I would say at his house in Palo Alto and I would talk to him
You don't realize these are the people that are at the pinnacle of technology
And they're having slumber parties. Yeah, they're very aware
taking AI safety seriously enough and
What did he say about it? He really seemed to be
What it once once sort of it digital super intelligence basically digital God
if you will
As soon as possible he wanted that
Yes
He's made many public statements over the years
that the whole goal of Google is
What's called AGI artificial general intelligence or artificial super
intelligence?
No, and I agree with him that the there's great potential for good
But there's also potential for bad and so if if you've got some
Radical new technology you want to try to take the set actions that maximize
probably it will do good to minimize probably it will do bad things
Yes, it can't just be helpful others. Let's just go, you know
barreling forward and
You know hope for the best and then at one point
I said what about you know, we're gonna make sure humanity is okay here
And and and and I go laugh and they called me a specious
Did he use to use that term yes, and there were witnesses the other was the
only one there when he called me a specious and so
I was like, okay, that's it. I've yes, I'm a specious. Okay, you got me
Yeah, I'm fully a specious
That was his last role at the time
How wild is that it is wild but these are the people that are in control of
this thing
And I think there's also this race that's going on
There's all these different companies around the world that are trying to
develop artificial general intelligence first
Because I think having it first if you have a digital god first you have a
massive advantage right over everyone and everything right?
Yeah
I mean if you think that tech companies have a lot of power now
Imagine if tech companies unleash a digital god. I mean they literally might be
the very seeds that create a god
I really believe that now the digital universe is probably the most sought-after
god
You know most people
probably spend more time
Advocating for whatever they're seeing online anywhere
Then they do for their church or their there, you know that I think that
already exists
People like elon see that and it should there should be a race for it. I don't
see it as
You know everything everything can have a really dark bad side
Mm-hmm and we can't control it
So I think even talking about it the way you're talking about it is scary and I
don't know that it's
Can I scare you with this let's get me with this this is on 60 minutes last
night. They did a whole piece
Oh, that's right this I saw this play the one AI program spoke in a foreign
language
It was never trained to know this mysterious behavior called emergent
properties has been happening where AI
Unexpectedly teaches itself a new skill a minute and he says something. Yeah, I
think it's pretty this is bananas
This is called emergent properties
Some AI systems are teaching themselves skills that they weren't expected to
have
How this happens is not well understood for example, one Google AI program
Adapted on its own after it was prompted in the language of Bangladesh, which
it was not trained to know
We discovered that with very few amounts of prompting in Bengali
You can now translate all of Bengali
So now all of a sudden we now have a research effort where we're now trying to
get to a thousand languages
There is an aspect of this which we call all of us in the field call it as a
black box
You know, you don't fully understand and you can't quite tell why it said this
or why it got wrong
We have some ideas and our ability to understand this gets better over time
But that's where the state of the art is you don't fully understand how it
works and yet you've turned it loose on society
Let me put it this way. I don't think we fully understand how a human mind
works either
Was it from that black box? We wondered
That was pretty good
Unless you want the rest of this is about what they're talking about earlier
What else are they saying here?
Yeah, that's like he wrote a poem and they're asking why did it write that way?
But why does that scare you guys so much?
Why does it...
Listen, it's alive
It's not whether or not it's scary
It's a kind of life form
But here's the thing
I am really fearful of humanity
I'm really afraid of us
Let's hope that's not afraid of us too
Decides to get rid of us
Or make us better
Or, you know
And that's a 50-50
And I would like to
You know, I have enough negativity
And I'm not talking
It's not about me
But going on in my mind where
If I don't know
And I'm assuming that it is a higher power than me
Not God
But it is a higher power than me
That maybe for whatever reason
Let's trust that it is a benefit
And not a deter
You know, not something that's horrible
Well, I certainly hope
I hope it's a benefit
What you just played for me didn't scare me
It doesn't scare me
The fact that it is artificial intelligence
What is intelligence?
Just by virtue of what it is
So it's learning things that we can't explain
It's intelligence
That's what intelligence is
I think we're using this word in a weird way
The word scared
Because I don't think that it's scared
Like I'm scared of wolves
It's not that kind of scared
It's scared like
That we'll be totally
I realize where this is going
And it might not even be in our lifetime
But you didn't describe a good place
Well, it's not a good place for us
But maybe it's a good place
Place for the universe
Do you invest in Bitcoin?
It's a good place for life
Do you invest in Bitcoin?
I've got some Bitcoin
Okay
So you're
I think
But that's not what I'm thinking about
I'm thinking about
Maybe this is what happens
With intelligence
Everywhere
That maybe intelligence
Realizes there's limitations
To biology
And biological evolution
Is very time consuming
It takes a long time
To get adaptation
For things to change
It takes decades
It takes centuries
It takes thousands of years
But this could happen
In weeks and hours and minutes
And especially if it knows
How to make a better version
And you don't think that's scary
What you just
Proclaimed
You keep saying scary
I do
I think it's just the thing
That's happening
And I think
But you have children
Yes
We will continue to exist
But I feel like this was inevitable
Just like
There's inevitable things
That happen in nature
That we don't want to admit
You don't want to say
They're scary
They're just inevitable
You know
Thank you.