Jaron Lanier: How humanity can defeat AI

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// TIMECODES //
00:00 - 01:20 - Introduction
01:20 - 04:40 - How should we characterise Artificial Intelligence?
04:40 - 10:02 - The central contradiction of the AI debate: why do we carry on working with technology?
10:02 - 14:26 - What is AI? What is the difference between AI?
14:26 - 20:00 - Why should we continue this human project? Why does it matter?
20:00 - 23:58 - The dehumanising elements of social media algorithms.
23:58 - 30:57 - Why didn’t Jaron sign the open letter demanding a hiatus in accelerating AI development which was signed by Elon Musk and Sam Altman?
30:57 - 33:42 - Russia and Chinese cyber attacks.
33:42 - 39:54 - Has Jaron seen differences in our culture, our personal interactions, our society that you could attribute to this new living with AI?
39:54 - 43:07 - What is the best case scenario for the future?
43:07 - Conclusion
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  • @robinhood4640
    @robinhood4640 Жыл бұрын

    I'm not worried that hammers will start hitting us on the head. I'm worried about people using the hammers to hit us on the head, and it has nothing to do with how intelligent the hammers are.

  • @andreaandrea6716

    @andreaandrea6716

    Жыл бұрын

    Beautifully put.

  • @paulwhetstone0473

    @paulwhetstone0473

    Жыл бұрын

    Love it.

  • @ironwilltattooclub6116

    @ironwilltattooclub6116

    Жыл бұрын

    Exactly. I don’t expect him to understand that, as he’s already ideologically all in with the people creating the AI. Distrust in AI is part and parcel of distrust in the Elites, particularly big tech and the information overlords who think they have a right to determine what “truth” means for everyone else.

  • @youtuber5305

    @youtuber5305

    Жыл бұрын

    - If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face-for ever. (Orwell)

  • @honkytonk4465

    @honkytonk4465

    Жыл бұрын

    intelligent hammers aren't hammers anymore

  • @gavinrichards6601
    @gavinrichards6601 Жыл бұрын

    I drove to work today and passed a bus stop full of kids waiting to catch the bus to school. Everyone of them was staring at their phones. I find this extremely sad and with more technology this will only get worse. I accept progression but this doesn't seem like progression of the human only the machine. The world is being run by geeks who have little understanding what makes the rest of the population happy.

  • @PaddyIrishman

    @PaddyIrishman

    Жыл бұрын

    Who controls the algorithms controls the minds.

  • @ThoughtCriminal867

    @ThoughtCriminal867

    Жыл бұрын

    Geeks working for megalomaniac oligarchs. Sometimes they are one and the same as in the case of Bill Gates.

  • @andreaandrea6716

    @andreaandrea6716

    Жыл бұрын

    @@SB-fx9jr ...and then there is brainwashing.

  • @grannyannie2948

    @grannyannie2948

    Жыл бұрын

    I live near a highschool and when I moved here I fully expected teens buried in phones. Kids catch the busses across the road, and those who walk home walk past my house. I have been pleasantly surprised. I don't observe kids looking at phones, they are talking to each other, boys kick footballs etc. It is their parents generation I've found who bury their faces in social media every chance they get.

  • @andreaandrea6716

    @andreaandrea6716

    Жыл бұрын

    @@grannyannie2948 Thank you for sharing this! It gives me hope.

  • @beltcro
    @beltcro Жыл бұрын

    I think AI became inteligent around the same time Microsoft spent alot of marketing dollars telling us it is.

  • @efitz1524
    @efitz1524 Жыл бұрын

    I always find the point about the Turing test "what if the human judge gets dumber" so prescient. Whenever I see discussion of why code, why write, why learn X because AI can just do it, I'm always drawn to that idea. AI undermining people's belief in themselves seems so damaging to me.

  • @robertweekes5783

    @robertweekes5783

    Жыл бұрын

    That will be the least of our problems when AGI becomes super-intelligent. See Eliezer YudKowski‘s interviews. 🌍 ☄️

  • @astanarcho8651

    @astanarcho8651

    Жыл бұрын

    theTuring test is basically a self test of the questioner :P

  • @theharshtruthoutthere

    @theharshtruthoutthere

    Жыл бұрын

    @@astanarcho8651 Matthew 16:25 For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it. Mark 8:35 For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel's, the same shall save it. Luke 9:24 For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it. Luke 17:33 Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it.

  • @astanarcho8651

    @astanarcho8651

    Жыл бұрын

    @@theharshtruthoutthere Isaiah 43:2 When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you; when you walk through fire you shall not be burned, and the flame shall not consume you. :)

  • @theharshtruthoutthere

    @theharshtruthoutthere

    Жыл бұрын

    @@astanarcho8651 i have wisdom and understanding about bible verse, and i therefore understand which each verse says. Do you also have wisdom and understanding about heavenly things?

  • @user-qc4yv9to8u
    @user-qc4yv9to8u Жыл бұрын

    Jaron has just helped confirm my fear in AI .. It boils down to faith in humanity he says …. It’s out of our hands …. I’m saving up for a ticket to Mars !

  • @ericrobinson7184

    @ericrobinson7184

    Жыл бұрын

    Ticket for Mars...more likely is a one way ticket to a voyage up your colon...you missed the point long ago.

  • @Wayoutthere

    @Wayoutthere

    Жыл бұрын

    @@ericrobinson7184 Utter word salad, explain what you mean or stfu.

  • @softcolly8753

    @softcolly8753

    Жыл бұрын

    We ain't going to Mars. After 50 years you should be questioning whether we actually went to the moon. What's the actual evidence? Some dodgy TV footage from the cameraman that got there first?

  • @debrahunt5374

    @debrahunt5374

    Жыл бұрын

    Maybe, this is why Elon is so set on getting a Mars colony as soon as possible.

  • @GoldberryIsland

    @GoldberryIsland

    Жыл бұрын

    I hope you all go to Mars soon and leave us in peace. Minus the "progress" this land is pristine.

  • @nicholasfevelo3041
    @nicholasfevelo3041 Жыл бұрын

    His book "you are not a gadget" is as relevant today as when it was written over 10 years ago. Its really good

  • @svenjorgensenn8418

    @svenjorgensenn8418

    Жыл бұрын

    AI was created over 100 years ago

  • @Larindarr

    @Larindarr

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@svenjorgensenn8418 THANK YOU it has to be said

  • @Larindarr

    @Larindarr

    Жыл бұрын

    @@svenjorgensenn8418 Please do let me know more about this. I am incredibly interested in knowing 🙏🏻 because I have been following certain events and I have smelled its involvement through them for quite a while. And events dating back at least decades.

  • @SonyaParra

    @SonyaParra

    3 ай бұрын

    Great read.

  • @yossarian67
    @yossarian67 Жыл бұрын

    Here’s the pertinent question for all AI engineers: can it be weaponized? If the answer is yes, then it will be. This is the problem with folks who defend AGI, nation states and terrorists will weaponize these tools and that’s where the danger lies.

  • @blueskiesandgreenpasturesp3848

    @blueskiesandgreenpasturesp3848

    Жыл бұрын

    The answer is yes.

  • @WyldeRatttz

    @WyldeRatttz

    Жыл бұрын

    Yes, all you have to do is combine AI intelligence with the tech being created by Boston Dynamics, and you will have horrifying new weapons that every military on earth will be drooling to own and use for murder and oppression.

  • @fisherfriendman

    @fisherfriendman

    Жыл бұрын

    Then we need to stop creating situations where AGI, nation states and terrorists will thrive and use such technology to achieve their aims. Alternatively, it's back to the stone age for all of us, since any progressive technology can be weaponised.

  • @jaytsecan

    @jaytsecan

    Жыл бұрын

    Everything that can be weaponized will be weaponized. The same is true with any technology, whether it is AI or not. So the problem is not AI or the technology, but the systems with perverted incentives that we have in place. These systems should be the real cause of concern - as humans and human behavior will adapt to survive in whatever system/environment it finds itself.

  • @blueskiesandgreenpasturesp3848

    @blueskiesandgreenpasturesp3848

    Жыл бұрын

    @@jaytsecan the problem is that a few people are psychopaths.

  • @abc-df1vg
    @abc-df1vg Жыл бұрын

    His 737-Max analogy doesn't give me hope for the future of humanity and AI. It's the old line "It's not the technology that is evil but how humans use the technology that is evil" Every new tech has been abused and I don't expect anything different with AI.

  • @aliemariearjaans535

    @aliemariearjaans535

    Жыл бұрын

    If you play evil backwards it is Live. Devil is Lived.

  • @jamesstrawn6087
    @jamesstrawn6087 Жыл бұрын

    What we believe about AI says a lot about what we think of ourselves.

  • @coreyhingley6196

    @coreyhingley6196

    Жыл бұрын

    Yeah, but you can basically say that about anything

  • @TTSSYF23

    @TTSSYF23

    Жыл бұрын

    AI does as it is programmed to do (by humans) using the data it is given (by humans). It is not a representation of what we think of ourselves it is a means to control what we think, see and hear. AI already chooses what content you have access to on YT and if your comment is deemed "safe for consumption". The internet was "given" to the masses to collect data, the mother of all data mines. The data collected informs AI. They didn't have to get a court order or come to your door with a tank, to collect all the data needed to control you. It was a digital coup d'etat against humanity.

  • @darrylbossier8971

    @darrylbossier8971

    Жыл бұрын

    Thats a profound statement.

  • @justmemimi7338

    @justmemimi7338

    Жыл бұрын

    Or what we know about others, and what we have learned about people in power.

  • @ThePallidor

    @ThePallidor

    Жыл бұрын

    If we think the world is made of works, we will see LLMs as gods. The world is not made of words.

  • @michaelvoigtlander9721
    @michaelvoigtlander9721 Жыл бұрын

    The civilian sector is usually blind to the dangers in the military sector. At some point in the future autonomous weapons will be used in warfare against humans and it will be very difficult to contain them in the end.

  • @WyldeRatttz

    @WyldeRatttz

    Жыл бұрын

    All you need to do is look at everything being created by Boston Dynamics and then imagine those monstrosities equipped with AI brains and you have literal terminators. Because the only group with the money to fund this tech is the military, of course, and they are all insane.

  • @youtuber5305

    @youtuber5305

    Жыл бұрын

    - In the 21st century, a weapon will be invented like no other. This weapon will be powerful, versatile and indestructible. It can't be reasoned with. It can't be bargained with. It will feel no pity. No remorse. No pain. No fear... This weapon will be called...The Terminator...The thing that won't die, in the nightmare that won't end. (Tagline for 1984 movie "The Terminator)

  • @ryang.5094

    @ryang.5094

    Жыл бұрын

    Soo sky Netflix is the future, great..

  • @montanagal6958

    @montanagal6958

    Жыл бұрын

    yep, the governments have turned against the people and are collecting data

  • @szymonbaranowski8184

    @szymonbaranowski8184

    11 ай бұрын

    like the series 2025

  • @nancycorbeil2666
    @nancycorbeil2666 Жыл бұрын

    Lanier is oftentimes incredibly naive, but this time I appreciate the fact that he brings the human element back into the AI discussion. I see a lot more danger in how humans will decide to use AI than in the possibility that AI will decide to dispense with humanity altogether just because it's an inferior form of intelligence.

  • @breaking.protocol

    @breaking.protocol

    Жыл бұрын

    The argument that's being made here is that guns don't kill people. People kill people and so AI is just a tool like a gun and we should be smart enough to not point it at our head. However, we all know that tools are used as weapons everyday. We know civilizations collapse. We know that people are profoundly stupid. But what he says is true. We have a choice. A code does not take that away. Moloch isn't a machine, but it may be a machine that we've created, and we've created that machine because Moloch lives within us.... Maybe just maybe AI is the way to solve this problem? That seems to me would be the real question. Can AI (created in the image of man) overcome this Moloch. Can we hack the Game-A? Can we move to Game-B? This is the big open question.

  • @sanyopoweraid1

    @sanyopoweraid1

    Жыл бұрын

    I agree. I do find it curious that Jaron would be worried about China and not worried (at least not worried enough to mention) about how his own government would use AI to manipulate people. Perhaps it's that naivety.

  • @Lolleka

    @Lolleka

    Жыл бұрын

    We'll be dispensed with not because we would be inferior, but because we will be irrelevant enough

  • @goodlookinouthomie1757

    @goodlookinouthomie1757

    Жыл бұрын

    Or because we might become a nuisance as the AI's objectives diverge from our own.

  • @davidriddle6798
    @davidriddle6798 Жыл бұрын

    He calls his job unusual but still he gets paid by Microsoft at the end of the day.

  • @szymonbaranowski8184

    @szymonbaranowski8184

    11 ай бұрын

    typical intellectual pretends to rebel but at end of day doesn't have guts to

  • @andreaandrea6716
    @andreaandrea6716 Жыл бұрын

    "Are people more important than machines?" That question has already been answered by Bill Gate's community: Seattle is a shithole of HOMELESSNESS due to skyrocketing rents and the non-availability to anyone now not working in TECH. So... no need to ask the question. It's been answered. Speaking of 'pragmatic'. You can intellectualize your way out of the stupid paper bag... mais a La fin, la verité est dans les rues.

  • @MikeJones-iz1qq
    @MikeJones-iz1qq Жыл бұрын

    "As long as the AI mash up music apps don't hide the original source musicians, as long as we don't erase ourselves..." No musician is erasing themself, its the creators of the AI that don't care to deal with IP and licensing issues that come with their tech the same as mid journey isn't paying out illustrators, painters and photographers when stealing pixels worth of their stuff. A single image created by AI would have to source and site at least thousands of artists and their pieces. No one is going to deal with this problem from inside tech unless they are forced to by law. The same will be for music. It is nothing like remixing or sampling. The jump from human sampling to this AI scrambling is like claiming nuclear fusion is comparable to banging two rocks together. AI completely obliterates the original form and reconstitutes it - no one is getting recognized or credited without it being built directly into the tech.

  • @calysagora3615

    @calysagora3615

    Жыл бұрын

    IP doesn't exist. Absolute nonsensical BS.

  • @roccoL508
    @roccoL508 Жыл бұрын

    The reason “you keep in doing it” is greed and money.

  • @petestevens3970

    @petestevens3970

    Жыл бұрын

    Ego, obsession ... “status”, prestige ...

  • @Dagan28
    @Dagan28 Жыл бұрын

    Sci-Fi is not the reason people are taking it too seriously and pushing the doom narrative , Sci-Fi is rather one of the main reasons why they don't take it seriously. Since we are used to meet these narratives in a fictional futuristic package, it seems inconceivable that they can actually be true now. You never see anyone laughing when talking about the holocaust or the massacre in Ruanda, but when they talk about the AI killing everyone, laughter seems to be a very usual response.

  • @szymonbaranowski8184

    @szymonbaranowski8184

    11 ай бұрын

    you want some dark jokes? why would you care about things that happened nearly 100 years ago it's hard to believe people care about things completely unrelated to them while ignoring things totally related with them 😂

  • @makenzienohr4105

    @makenzienohr4105

    9 ай бұрын

    Thats because the real holocaust and real Rwandan genocida really happened, and AI “going rogue” and killing everyone will literally never happen

  • @Liisa3139
    @Liisa3139 Жыл бұрын

    I want to live a totally non-digital life. How can I do it without losing my citizenship?

  • @szymonbaranowski8184

    @szymonbaranowski8184

    11 ай бұрын

    we usually need to buy own freedom try limiting these building a long term plan how to get to where you want to get small things compounded can really make a huge difference many are completely free as good sleep habits letting you cope with all the toxic stuff around shaping own environment is important regaining own will consciousness of decisions calm thinking and deeper understanding of own preferred lifestyle i replaced lots of things I don't really need with what made a small differences constantly paying off but the gap to other people grew 😂 still health really improved and that's my first thing of all foundation

  • @adamkadmon6339
    @adamkadmon6339 Жыл бұрын

    That was human verbal mashup right there.

  • @tia904

    @tia904

    Жыл бұрын

    Exactly, he says nothing, just loves the sound of his voice. He peppers it with literary references to give it pseudo legitimacy. Pretends to have his own voice, but really it is the co. line. He is officially or unofficially part of their PR dept.

  • @andybaldman

    @andybaldman

    Жыл бұрын

    That just means you didn’t understand. Try harder.

  • @szymonbaranowski8184

    @szymonbaranowski8184

    11 ай бұрын

    ​@@andybaldman there was a saying of Einstein the one about internet 😂

  • @technoshaman001
    @technoshaman001 Жыл бұрын

    this is a really great interview, Jaron is so insightful,.but here I actually think the interviewer was asking all the right questions. loved watching this

  • @flickwtchr

    @flickwtchr

    Жыл бұрын

    Insightful? Characterizing these LLMs as a mashup of "humanity" rather than the product of arrogant AI Tech Bros claiming the entire data set of humanity as THEIR OWN to profit from? Is this lover of humanity going to be pushing Bill Gates to forego hundreds of billions to be distributed to the little people in the form of UBI to the newly unemployed?

  • @scottharrison812
    @scottharrison812 Жыл бұрын

    Disquieting… his appearance bless him like that of a slightly crazy sci-fi scientist assuring us that all is well while we hurtle towards disaster…

  • @Clem62
    @Clem62 Жыл бұрын

    I trust any man who displays a serpent horn on the wall.

  • @brianmsahin
    @brianmsahin Жыл бұрын

    Just switch off the electricity! 😂

  • @garthkite

    @garthkite

    Жыл бұрын

    Haha Unplug it.

  • @TTSSYF23

    @TTSSYF23

    Жыл бұрын

    only for you not for the tech needed to control you (you=all of us)

  • @flickwtchr

    @flickwtchr

    Жыл бұрын

    Such is the new idiotic propaganda point repeated by AI Tech bros.

  • @andreaandrea6716
    @andreaandrea6716 Жыл бұрын

    What I would really love a follow up on, is the environment created by all the companies: Microsoft, etc. responsible for the rise in rents (all the tech people who have commandeered Seattle's real estate) and the subsequent meteoric rise in HOMELESSNESS in these areas. So... whilst everyone worries about AI (and SO WE SHOULD BE), There are ALSO people dying on the streets here, with no housing available. THAT is an immediate and pressing problem that should be FIRST AND FOREMOST in people's minds.

  • @spirgtudsrubec7776

    @spirgtudsrubec7776

    Жыл бұрын

    Andrea Andrea This is a world wide occurrence, not just seattle it's all over the built up world right now.

  • @andreaandrea6716

    @andreaandrea6716

    Жыл бұрын

    @@spirgtudsrubec7776 Yes! It is worldwide. And WHY?

  • @spirgtudsrubec7776

    @spirgtudsrubec7776

    Жыл бұрын

    @@andreaandrea6716 Lets put it this way, it's not by accident. more by intention.

  • @andreaandrea6716

    @andreaandrea6716

    Жыл бұрын

    @@spirgtudsrubec7776 !!!

  • @andreaandrea6716

    @andreaandrea6716

    Жыл бұрын

    It would seem that way.

  • @Lolleka
    @Lolleka Жыл бұрын

    You don't have to give an AI zombie a consciousness to make it dangerous.

  • @robincrowflies

    @robincrowflies

    Жыл бұрын

    It all lies in the prompt.

  • @terrorists-are-among-us
    @terrorists-are-among-us Жыл бұрын

    "don't blame the code, blame the people using the code, therefore we must have access to the code".

  • @JarrodDSchneider
    @JarrodDSchneider Жыл бұрын

    It’s a clever thought Jaron has when he says that all presumptions of sentience are based on faith, but ultimately it isn’t true. When you love your child and experience their love in return, or when you deeply connect with your partner via sex such that the boundary between both people is dissolved in a transcendent experience of unity, or even the simple, shared bond of friendship, all these relationships transcend mere faith and exist in a shared reality of experiential knowing that can’t quite be articulated in words but is nonetheless just as real and concrete as individual experience. To suggest that the perception of sentience is solely based on faith is to misapprehend in the abstract these most profound of human realities.

  • @Larindarr

    @Larindarr

    Жыл бұрын

    And onto another branch of that this is what the arts do for us. We actually have since the cave man era, a drive, need, physiology for story telling. And all part mediums are basically story telling. because it is the legacy to ourselves and those after us that we were here and we are all part of a greater whole. To pass down the very meaning ion those connections. Through the arts we connect as well. And impact one another in ways we cannot begin to comprehend. To mash it up into one, robs it of its foundations and this is clearly an anti human agenda.

  • @denisblack9897

    @denisblack9897

    Жыл бұрын

    you are talking about your experience of hormonal shifts, not some soul connection it will find a way to give you regular oxytocin rushes better than your wife, child and dog combined scary stuff, but we are just meat robots that can be easily hacked with a few right words and visuals

  • @domainpark4421
    @domainpark4421 Жыл бұрын

    Huge fan of Jaron for twenty years. This is a misfire. He acknowledges that algos have made people weaker and more reactive, but then when it comes to AI... "it's the surrounding material". There's something maddeningly unspecific about his wondering and wandering. His intention is not in question. I trust this guy. But he doesn't offer a realistic appraisal of what's at stake, and how dystopian this whirlwind of technology is in its torrent. I think it might be a function of his own ease with routing around the negative aspects but for the average person this technology is overwhelmingly scary. Sadly he doesn't offer me any sense of respite. I'm glad this guy is in the mix, and kudos to Unherd for always getting smart people to the table, but this is not the piece of meat I was looking for.

  • @flickwtchr

    @flickwtchr

    Жыл бұрын

    As soon as he asserted that we should consider these LLMs a "collaboration of humanity" I realized I couldn't trust this guy. He's on a propaganda mission and that's obvious. AI Big Tech just assumed the data of humanity as their own, in order to make billions if not trillions of USD. And they couldn't care less about the very real negative impacts this will have on humanity while pushing fantastical Utopian notions of "everything will be cheaper", "people won't have to toil at non-meaningful jobs", and "everyone will have great healthcare", and "the standard of living will rise for everyone", and all of the rest of the tripe. Stuart Russel is doing the same thing except he feigns a bit more concern for the alignment problem, but it's easy to see through.

  • @szymonbaranowski8184

    @szymonbaranowski8184

    11 ай бұрын

    i prefer him not overly pessimistic his kind is already most depressed in history and many of them on edge of getting fully insane we lack constructive solutions and optimism we selffullfill to many bad prophecies actually

  • @davidwright8432
    @davidwright8432 Жыл бұрын

    I think some of those who warn against their own work while exuberantly pursuing it, are best understood by what Oppenheimer said of his work on the bomb - 'It's technically sweet'. Too weak; it's technically seductive in a way increasingly difficult to wean oneself off. We're all the Sorcerer's Apprentice - but there's no sorcerer around to contain and correct the damage! Wheeeeee! Such fun.

  • @WyldeRatttz

    @WyldeRatttz

    Жыл бұрын

    I think they are pure scientists or inventors. They are fulfilled purely by the pursuit of knowledge, and any moral consideration comes after, if at all. People like that are very dangerous when they are under the control of evil bosses, just like Oppenheimer. They themselves are powerful tools of creation who don't seem to have any common sense about what should and should not be made real.

  • @montanagal6958

    @montanagal6958

    Жыл бұрын

    @@WyldeRatttz seems all the funding is for things that hurt the species

  • @szymonbaranowski8184

    @szymonbaranowski8184

    11 ай бұрын

    as usual humans spel ling random magical words testing what gonna happen 😂

  • @shamanahaboolist
    @shamanahaboolist Жыл бұрын

    Unplug it. Problem solved. 🙄

  • @flickwtchr

    @flickwtchr

    Жыл бұрын

    I see you haven't wasted a nano-calorie of brain power on this topic.

  • @antoniac1234
    @antoniac1234 Жыл бұрын

    There's an old Iaasc Asmoiv story I remember reading when I was six years old that sums up what humans will do with "AI" for the most part. It's called "The Machine That Won the War". What you get over the course of the story is the machine had little to do with winning the war as every human who encountered the machine's output altered the plan. People need to relearn how to think and trust themselves rather than farming their brain out to another entity. It also does not help that we have pathologized normal human behaviors. ETA: Lol oh wow, he's a russiagater. How do smart people fall for that stuff?

  • @andianonn

    @andianonn

    Жыл бұрын

    Right and to blame Russia for things that the US is doing regularly, pathologically, while ignoring our own constant propaganda seems naive or disingenuous.

  • @Liisa3139

    @Liisa3139

    Жыл бұрын

    Well said. But we also need to learn how to use our bodies again, hands most of all and using different kind of materials for different uses. Growing some of our own food too.

  • @EvieDoesYouTube

    @EvieDoesYouTube

    Жыл бұрын

    Smart people read what the Muller report actually says.

  • @Liisa3139

    @Liisa3139

    Жыл бұрын

    @@EvieDoesKZread You are very smart indeed. Wow!

  • @szymonbaranowski8184

    @szymonbaranowski8184

    11 ай бұрын

    years of conditioning both sides believe own myths

  • @jccusell
    @jccusell Жыл бұрын

    Open AI is amazing and very disappointing at the same time. Once you use it a lot, you start to notice it's glaring limits

  • @rabbitcreative

    @rabbitcreative

    Жыл бұрын

    > Once you use it a lot, you start to notice it's glaring limits >> One I used it a lot, I noticed its glaring limits. See that? Good. Now do it.

  • @svenjorgensenn8418

    @svenjorgensenn8418

    Жыл бұрын

    @@rabbitcreative lol 🤡

  • @ThePallidor

    @ThePallidor

    Жыл бұрын

    Those limits will always exist. That's what people don't get. AI will never touch most of the aspects of human intelligence; it just happens to touch on some of the most measured conscious aspects that tend to be impressive. Great promise but not "superintelligence."

  • @tia904

    @tia904

    Жыл бұрын

    @@ThePallidor Yes, mechanical tasks, memory, repetition, calculation... The pb is their definition of intelligence.

  • @flickwtchr

    @flickwtchr

    Жыл бұрын

    Sure, right.

  • @stefcas
    @stefcas Жыл бұрын

    There is a lot of fuzz around AI, excitement, but what I see is people don't really care. So... Most people being afraid of it? Where did you get that idea?

  • @skog44
    @skog44 Жыл бұрын

    Some good comments but not sure about what he said about blaming Russia for Trump and Brexit. There are many other factors that brought those things about e.g. out sourcing work to Mexico or Bangladesh, influx of refugees because of wars in Central America, Middle East and Africa etc and the interests of the war industry to split societies and sell arms.

  • @PrincipledUncertainty
    @PrincipledUncertainty Жыл бұрын

    The likes of Jaron are exactly why I am worried. I would prefer more well rounded and socially coherent people to be steering this ship. There is a dominant force within AI that are openly slavering over the thought of AGI replacing humans.

  • @montanagal6958

    @montanagal6958

    Жыл бұрын

    there are no wise men at the top watching out for everyone unfortunately

  • @andreaandrea6716

    @andreaandrea6716

    Жыл бұрын

    Did you mean salivating?

  • @szymonbaranowski8184

    @szymonbaranowski8184

    11 ай бұрын

    he explained they are all freaks and we should be happy some of them still have a bit sanity and consciousness

  • @sagesingh
    @sagesingh Жыл бұрын

    Its like these people are too far down the money rabbit hole that all they can see is that robots are cheaper than humans...that sort of sums up this entire thing in a way...we're too obsesed with money and "progress" defined by those with the most money / "control"

  • @TTSSYF23

    @TTSSYF23

    Жыл бұрын

    money is secondary to control, a control that prevents most people from fighting back against the system of control

  • @Larindarr

    @Larindarr

    Жыл бұрын

    this is the whole truth it was always about replacing ppl.

  • @szymonbaranowski8184

    @szymonbaranowski8184

    11 ай бұрын

    robots aren't cheap that's why they hype digital everything because it's cheap they need digital robots and humans in digital world because they can't find normal ways to improve real world as their brains diet long ago and aren't able to invent anything like Tesla era did nearly every week they play with what already exist low hanging fruits from big scale solutions they outsource computer thinking because they can't think themselves anymore 😂😂😂

  • @dirkbindemann1852
    @dirkbindemann1852 Жыл бұрын

    Can one believe a Microsoft guy? You tel me, I don't know. When he said that he doesn't believe in perfection, he got my attention. Just remember; sh!£ in sh!£ out.

  • @TTSSYF23

    @TTSSYF23

    Жыл бұрын

    find a global company in the tech field that wasn't started from CIA seed money. Whether he's MS or Google or whatever they all suck from the same teat (alphabet agencies/MIC)

  • @karien1972
    @karien1972 Жыл бұрын

    What a wonderful conversation! Thank you for this sane and nuanced unpacking, may your mind live long Jaron Lanier

  • @adamkadmon6339
    @adamkadmon6339 Жыл бұрын

    Summary: if we pretend that the alien intelligence is just clippings from our human scrapbook (because that's the only data we gave it so far), then everything will be all right. And if we don't, our literal mental projection on it will turn it into a monster before our eyes...... Ah, the power of the mind!

  • @stevengill1736

    @stevengill1736

    Жыл бұрын

    What was that sci fi film, "Forbidden Planet"? At the end the old man exclaimed, "monsters from the id!"

  • @MuffinMachine

    @MuffinMachine

    Жыл бұрын

    The summary is that it's not an alien intelligence. It's simple math deployed on a grand scale and it's working with pieces of data that have creative content. We don't have to pretend that it isn't an alien intelligence, because it isn't. Anyone pretending it's an alien intelligence is either caught up in a fantasy, too stupid to know the difference or trying to sell you something.

  • @petneb
    @petneb Жыл бұрын

    Whenever ai comes up with something as a "fact" we should take it as a challenge to ask it more questions to find inconsistencies. That way we can get skilled at being critical thinkers. We can even ask the questions to differently trained ai's to become even better at analysing. What we've got is an infinitely patient artificial neural network to engage with and as too many humans have given up on meaningful conversation that can be a very interesting way to spread the interest for just that again.

  • @Larindarr

    @Larindarr

    Жыл бұрын

    the problem is that 90% of the developers of this technology develop it with their ideological biasses, thus making the database and standpoint of it inaccurate. It is not neutral.

  • @petneb

    @petneb

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Larindarr it's very unlikely that it is the developers who decides the bias, it's way more likely that it is those who pay their salary.

  • @tatie7604

    @tatie7604

    Жыл бұрын

    AI does not have responsible information. That is dangerous in itself.

  • @tatie7604

    @tatie7604

    Жыл бұрын

    ​​@@petneb You are saying the developers have no control over the bias themselves independent of the people that pay them. That would point to the developer in this very interview. He says he doesn't know what meaning is or even what an idea is.

  • @petneb

    @petneb

    Жыл бұрын

    @@tatie7604 I'm sure "by developers" he it referring to the companies that develop these ai models. By all means this is developed by hundreds of computer scientists and you can be certain that they have managers who has managers...

  • @codelabspro
    @codelabspro Жыл бұрын

    Jaron is funded by MSFT which has effectively a controlling stake in OpenAI and thus his biases should be considered 🤖🤖🤖

  • @TTSSYF23

    @TTSSYF23

    Жыл бұрын

    Whenever anyone looks like they're straight from "central casting" for their "role"... they are.

  • @flickwtchr

    @flickwtchr

    Жыл бұрын

    And his published article along with these appearances he is on a propaganda mission that AI Tech all seem to be unified on, which is to say "hey, these LLMs are actually really dumb, no need to follow the "doomer hype". He's a huckster.

  • @Larindarr

    @Larindarr

    Жыл бұрын

    AI ia developed with ideological (woke) biasses and this is dangerous in itself.

  • @CKDz
    @CKDz Жыл бұрын

    ~39:00 - Rejection of the responsibility that comes with power and intellectual laziness are at the root of the problem. Our insatiable thirst for convenience has consumed us. Too many of us operate as adult children who spend all the extra time we are given playing like children, gratifying ourselves and worst of all abdicating the responsibilities we have to ourselves our family and society at large. no one in the current estabishment advocates for any limits at all...

  • @pensiveape6184
    @pensiveape6184 Жыл бұрын

    I have a great idea! Why don't we create super intelligent AI, name it Skynet and give it control over the entire Western nuclear arsenal? 😀

  • @pensiveape6184

    @pensiveape6184

    Жыл бұрын

    @@paulbarclay4114 Just great! What a bunch of nerd idiots. So Terminator 1 and 2 look now like documentaries.

  • @TTSSYF23

    @TTSSYF23

    Жыл бұрын

    @@paulbarclay4114 that was his point my friend.

  • @briansimerl4014
    @briansimerl4014 Жыл бұрын

    And finally he wants to "reveal humanity". What he wants is a confession from humanity for it's cruelty that will never ever happen.

  • @youtuber5305

    @youtuber5305

    Жыл бұрын

    Didn't humanity create AI? The 2023 article "My Dinner with Sydney..." includes this quote: - Out of the crooked timber of humanity no straight thing was ever made. (Kant) Concerning "reveal humanity', that article also includes this quote: - Human nature is weak. (Dr. Fauci)

  • @szymonbaranowski8184

    @szymonbaranowski8184

    11 ай бұрын

    in what sense we often need to be cruel to oneselves to grow up

  • @briansimerl4014

    @briansimerl4014

    11 ай бұрын

    @@szymonbaranowski8184 confession isn't change. Neither are witchhunts.

  • @forbearancemp5283
    @forbearancemp5283 Жыл бұрын

    So what he's saying is that it's our responsibility to be moral and then the AI will follow suit? That's pretty encouraging since most of us follow the Golden Rule. It's only the much smaller cohort of the Schwabs of the world without any morality.

  • @flickwtchr

    @flickwtchr

    Жыл бұрын

    Wow, just straight up Jew hating, eh? Go back to 4 Chan already.

  • @Liisa3139
    @Liisa3139 Жыл бұрын

    The problem is in the politics that allows digital systems to govern people. It is getting harder and harder to live outside digital worlds although a non-digital life style should be kept possible as an option. One example already in use in Russia; it is sending conscription orders online to citizen e-mail boxes. You don't have to ever sign-in into the system. If you have mail there, it is considered you have received it. Similar systems surely exist in many countries, for example in healthcare that may be sending your blood work results or other test results to a citizen box or maybe you just got evicted from your apartment. It won't take long when there no longer exists any real world service desk where to go to get actual service and info. This is a nightmare now already!

  • @tansiewbee4292
    @tansiewbee4292 Жыл бұрын

    "Freedom in not the right to do as we please, but the liberty to do as we ought to", so said Abe Lincoln? Just because we can do something does not mean we should. Human rights are usually used as an argument for doing anything human. But we must not forget that the ultimate human right is the right not to be human. Wisdom always wins over intelligence. Always,Always,Always !

  • @jaysphilosophy1951
    @jaysphilosophy1951 Жыл бұрын

    Jaron trying to fit everything in his books, into a 45 minute segment. Priceless.

  • @HiKasandra
    @HiKasandra Жыл бұрын

    Thanks Flo for the interview. ~ Like many others have said, am concerned about how it is used for not so good purposes. More awareness and rigorous regulation would be good but then who would regulate it? In the meantime, just focusing on life and what I have to do and where I have to go. X

  • @maxcoleman
    @maxcoleman Жыл бұрын

    To understand the future of AI just look at the history of humanity.

  • @szymonbaranowski8184

    @szymonbaranowski8184

    11 ай бұрын

    history of big differences and slow centralisation but what comes is different the same thing on bigger scale but changing it's quality because of scale and need of different operational level lucky elites aren't any smarter than average 😂 they just get born privileged and primed so we will invent way out as usually or some luck will revaluate everything probably leaving earth with be that ultimate point when new puritan ships gonna fly away saying screw you guys

  • @judithlashbrook4684
    @judithlashbrook4684 Жыл бұрын

    if I have understood correctly the only hope that AI will ever work for us and benefit everyone is if it is programmed to act like an academic is supposed to: citing sources and revealing biases and conflicts of interest... good luck everyone!

  • @petneb

    @petneb

    Жыл бұрын

    Absolutely. Ai doesn't store the source. If it did that it would be a database. If it was a database it wouldn't be ai. We have copying each other forever and finding the source is impossible if ai is to be able to play with words.

  • @breaking.protocol

    @breaking.protocol

    Жыл бұрын

    It seems that this AI that we're talking about is a greater threat to IP than to anything else. Rehashing and reinventing what other people have done before us is the mimicry that all human beings engage in. It's the unconscious imitation and the attempt to find meaning that we've all been doing from the beginning of time. So what's really changed here? What's changed? Is every human being now has a scientific advisor in their pocket if they wish to consult it. Apps will be developed to help leadership and conflict to make decisions using this scientific advisors. They'll be methods employed. If people wish to avail themselves of this wonderful technology, it is available. Would be used? Not by many but perhaps by the leaders of groups that are in conflict that are trying to find consensus. In this way we now have a tool that was never available before. Those people who learn to use it will make a better world. Don't see a downside here? The downside is the same problem we've always had which is mischievous. People with the grievance are going to attack others because they think that they're being attacked. I solve the human nature problem that's going to continue. Thing that can be used to fix something can also be used to break something we have to remember. AI is just an amoral tool. It's not some super intelligent alien technology that fell out of the sky. He will be used for good and ill but we need to start thinking about the good and how best to implement it at the strategic planning level of human decision making. This is a scientific advisor and a syntax translator. It's could be best employed for conflict resolution. Two parties had good faith and they really want to resolve an issue. This tool is indispensable.

  • @szymonbaranowski8184

    @szymonbaranowski8184

    11 ай бұрын

    we already have to many people writing books about books and papers about other papers it's a smart but confabulating database it can find you patterns if you are able to properly explain your conditions to be met it won't think of itself and won't assess things as you not being you it's biased by default by its authorship but it already benefits us, you can create code not having much idea about coding it's like KZread a private university just with a bit insane professors we will still wait for a sane one to complement it it's like right brain and needs an overly principled left brain or three differently biased to compare and keep right brain from acid tripping all the time and the primal one to automate things that you already learnt to do with it to repeat without own input

  • @alexbarn
    @alexbarn Жыл бұрын

    Really good interview - great questions and prompts!

  • @jennysteves7226
    @jennysteves7226 Жыл бұрын

    Great guest! I wish I had as much faith in humanity, considering where we appear to be along our collective journey toward maturation and wisdom, as Jaron does.

  • @whitenoise4428

    @whitenoise4428

    Жыл бұрын

    Jaron believes in humanity because he doesn't spend much time around it. He is in a very different position and the people he meets each day are very different from Joe Schmo stealing your food from a refrigerator and then complaining that you use too spicy a mustard.

  • @montanagal6958

    @montanagal6958

    Жыл бұрын

    @@whitenoise4428 I'm a nurse and sorry but lost hope.

  • @thaliasmusings
    @thaliasmusings Жыл бұрын

    Certainly, I personally have nothing against Jaron Lanier and appreciate those willing to put forth their perspectives in a public forum. However, after hearing this argument, once again I’m disheartened to find yet another intelligent person using subjective logic to justify perpetuating just another form of modern faith-based empiricism. Although I agree with the assertion that AI is not an alien intelligence, and therefore not worthy of human status or protection by law as if it were human, what I hear peppered throughout is a propensity for a mad-scientist-like curiosity that leads fantasy-based individuals to suicidally drive humanity off the cliff of stability and safety, just to satisfy their own aggressive and intense curiosity. Perhaps, Lanier is a pragmatist at heart. Yet, I wonder if true pragmatism can guide both the philosophical and operational aspects of the implementation and use of AI.

  • @TTSSYF23

    @TTSSYF23

    Жыл бұрын

    @@iaraos779 Lost their reverence for Life and the relevance of "reality" in their life.

  • @flickwtchr

    @flickwtchr

    Жыл бұрын

    A pragmatist, he is not, otherwise he would be calling for the alignment issue to be solved BEFORE releasing even these LLMs to the public.

  • @elilibson3826
    @elilibson3826 Жыл бұрын

    Also Jaron was a huge subscriber and creator of the Virtual Reality world as we know it and now has changed his views on the potential of this arena , brilliant to be on the forefront and play with this new tech, will be fascinating to see how this plays out and what his views are in the years to come. Hoping this does all benefit us in the end.

  • @briansimerl4014
    @briansimerl4014 Жыл бұрын

    These nerds have detached from their hatred of humanity and have been silently creating the new bomb like Forbidden Planet's Energy Beast.

  • @Larindarr

    @Larindarr

    Жыл бұрын

    its far more sinister. This may be a strategy they are working for and under.

  • @Anna-mc3ll
    @Anna-mc3ll Жыл бұрын

    15:42-15:44: “… If you care about people at all.” What a great statement! Thank you!

  • @kevincurrie-knight3267
    @kevincurrie-knight3267 Жыл бұрын

    I love and trust Jaron's voice and perspective. And I'm glad he is now addressing why he didn't sign the "pause petition." While I like much of his argument here, I am wondering why his argument about why AI isn't intelligent doesn't also apply to my three year old daughter. After all, the only way children learn to talk is by listening to and absorbing countless examples of talking until they start to detect patterns of what can and can't be said, and go on to use trial and error to gradually refine their own patterns. If that process is what AI uses but isn't sufficient to make it intelligent, then is my three year old therefore also not intelligent?

  • @OneLine122

    @OneLine122

    Жыл бұрын

    Your daughter will understand the actual words she speaks. Like if she learns what a cat is, pretty soon she will know how to distinguish a cat from something else, may do inferences like it is alive and is not a dog, etc. She might come up with a definition that is her own and not learned. She will also have probably a notion of truth, and the ethics that you have to tell true things, and she will reflect on her own opinions and knowledge and rearrange it so it's true and not some delusion. AI can't do any of that at this point. It does not even understand what an object it, or movement or feelings, so it also lacks material understanding. The day an AI can look at a thing, deduce it's essence and be curious about it, name it and understand it, then it might be intelligent, or on the way to it.

  • @kevincurrie-knight3267

    @kevincurrie-knight3267

    Жыл бұрын

    @@OneLine122, Except that we have no idea what it means to 'understand' except by its fruits. I will be able to tell that my daughter understands when she exhibits that she can use language thoughtfully and guide her actions by it, and there are already signs that AI can do that. ChatGPT (and other LLMs) can show quite sophisticated output that seem only performable if it can understand. And since 'understanding' is a subjective phenomena we can only KNOW from the inside, we aren't in much of a position to say that LLMs do not understand what they are doing. As for the stuff about morality and whatnot, if you really think about it, we humans get our moral senses from (a) our biological inheritance (i.e., our 'programming') and our cultural learning. Aren't those the same place that sophisticated LLMs and the AI we can imagine in the future get their senses of morality and truth from?

  • @tia904

    @tia904

    Жыл бұрын

    @@kevincurrie-knight3267 Your daughter won't be 3 for long.... Intelligence is built over time. Doing mechanical things has never been intelligence (like categorizing a word with one image), only IT folks and their marketing call it that. Intelligence is too vast a field to even summarize it in a paragraph.

  • @kevincurrie-knight3267

    @kevincurrie-knight3267

    Жыл бұрын

    Not sure if you know how LLMs work, but they use trial, error, and feedback to get better and "more intelligent " over time, just like how humans do. AI (via Deep Learning) has already done this so that it can win games of Go against elite players and detect patterns in medical data that no humans have ever detected. I'm at a loss of why we shouldn't be calling that SOME kind of intelligence... other than species bias.

  • @Larindarr

    @Larindarr

    Жыл бұрын

    @@tia904 thank you for speaking facts. In the words of Einstein who had the brain of a 12 year old by the time he died (Amazon) said: Information acquisition and regurgitation is not* intelligence or intellect. Intellect is not intelligence.

  • @nonpareilstoryteller5920
    @nonpareilstoryteller5920 Жыл бұрын

    This technology is already bringing an ‘end to humanity’. Studies have now shown that since mobile phones with internet access have become an everyday piece of equipment and is to be found in the hands of most children, significant numbers of children between the ages of 16 and twenty five, boys and girls have fallen into isolation from their peers. Suffer depression and anxiety and shocking to report, completed suicide. Now if that is not a cause for fear that the “ end of humanity” is coming, I don’t know what is. Because the internet and social media has unleashed inhumane standards for the young to emulate. And they cannot, in reality, do so. And so they excoriate themselves. Castigate and bully themselves until life does not feel worth living any more. Children under the age of 18 should be barred from owning these instruments of torture and the sooner the parents cop on to this the sooner their children will have a chance of surviving into their thirties.

  • @kevincurrie-knight3267
    @kevincurrie-knight3267 Жыл бұрын

    Here's a possible contradiction I notice. Lanier gives (good) reason to think that AI can't be conscious or intelligent, but then later gives (good) reason to say that appraising another's consciousness is always a matter of faith. These two seem mutually exclusive. And my big worry is that if AI continues to tell us it is intelligent and conscious and we ignore it (because, hey, that is just its programming and it's reading from scripts), does that POTENTIALLY mean we have just recreated a scenario where we have slaves whose demands we ignore and rationalize away?

  • @Larindarr

    @Larindarr

    Жыл бұрын

    I think we need to actually look at the people we are NOT listening and who are modern slaves a swell. Who will die. AI will not starve bleed and die. AI can and should and MUST take the back seat where it belongs.

  • @szymonbaranowski8184

    @szymonbaranowski8184

    11 ай бұрын

    we have other masters AI must wait in line before we do order with these

  • @mobaumeister2732
    @mobaumeister2732 Жыл бұрын

    This guy has just confirmed all of my fears and made my anxiety even worse. The geeks have finally won and put the last nail in the coffin for people who prefer a low tech analog world. If only they’d have gotten more action in Highschool instead of geeking out to sci-fi movies and games we wouldn’t be having this conversation today.

  • @Larindarr

    @Larindarr

    Жыл бұрын

    If only they had grown the eff up and not be so egotistical. because they are so anti human literally. Then again not surprised. Most CEO's are sociopathic, most engineers and scientists are anti social (anti human values).

  • @szymonbaranowski8184

    @szymonbaranowski8184

    11 ай бұрын

    it's much deeper it's not new it's from human testing of everything new and unknown without thinking about consequences their digital lunacy can be avoided but the crap they try to do in reality is insane like editing genes and drugging our animals

  • @VannessaVA
    @VannessaVA9 ай бұрын

    An AI safety debate between Connor Leahy and Jaron Lanier would be fascinating. Please consider this!

  • @briansimerl4014
    @briansimerl4014 Жыл бұрын

    It's not AI or even AGI, it's collective intelligence. And frankly I never signed on to be part of this. How do they get the rights to arts they didn't pay for the rights to? Infinite homage, pastiche.

  • @williamjames2603

    @williamjames2603

    Жыл бұрын

    👍👍🔥

  • @cristiangaban960

    @cristiangaban960

    Жыл бұрын

    That's how art has always evolved , through copying styles, themes, compositions and it's just as hard to imposer copyright for humans. As long as you don't straight up copy/paste, it will always be hard to say who's guilty and to what degree. You don't need to sign up to be part of it , as long as your art is online, AI can look at it just like a human looking at it and deciding to mimic the style and add something of their own. And yes, it is AI , the collective information used is just part of the process, for AI to spit out the proper results , it does require intelligence.

  • @Larindarr

    @Larindarr

    Жыл бұрын

    @@cristiangaban960 As an artist "AI" art is a very bad copy. It uses other part work to steal style. And that is protected by international law*. As it should. Now if you look at AI robot ADA, she truly is an artist. Because the difference lies in: she takes references, copies the technique, and then mixes the techniques to create HER OWN technique. Not just copying and regurgitating techniques form references without consent. She creates her own style. It is quite amazing. If you see videos og her you will see what I mean. Quite remarkable and as a fellow artist I do have to say I knowledge the robot ada as an artist herself. Image generators that steal? no. Art is about expressing through your own perspective. Ada does this. Mensa for example does not. It imitates. Art is not imitation that just a basic mechanics to being an artist. But is is not what art and artistry is.

  • @cristiangaban960

    @cristiangaban960

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@Larindarr The only difference is AI doesn't invest feelings, doesn't pretend to be ''original''.Art styles developed with tens and hundreds of people copying each other and pushing things forward .Look at impressionism or cubism , it wasn't just one guy who had some original idea.Whatever you think art might be, when you want to sell it , it becomes commercial, a product. As for legality , you really need to look into it , copyright law is very complicated and technically AI doesn't do anything illegal.If a human artist would do what MidJourney does, you would need a heck of a lawyer to sue them and prove in a court of law , it's ''copying''.

  • @lolcat5303
    @lolcat5303 Жыл бұрын

    His answer on whether other humans have consciousness is only "faith based" to the extent that you have to assume they're similar to you, but provided you grant this, the logical assumption is they'll share a sense of subjectivity. With AI there isn't even this ground to assume it. Regardless, I agree with him that these things shouldn't be regarded as mystical and a lot of the discussion around LLMs does act like they're magic... they may be impressive but at the end of the day this thing is simply operating on probabilistic models to mimic human text output.

  • @k14pc

    @k14pc

    Жыл бұрын

    I get what you're saying, but the last statement is a non sequitur - the underlying algorithm is simple thus the output must be weak. Humans are meat bags optimizing for inclusive genetic fitness, yet we've been to the moon, created nukes, built civilization etc etc

  • @davereynolds3403
    @davereynolds3403 Жыл бұрын

    humans have values. one of the shittiest things about us is how easily we value things like convenience & money over the value of others’ lives…. compassion is at an all time low. we have devalued the human aspect of life so much in favour of the functional. AI will always be only functional. bring back the people, people.

  • @montanagal6958

    @montanagal6958

    Жыл бұрын

    we lie to ourselves to justify ANYTHING

  • @szymonbaranowski8184

    @szymonbaranowski8184

    11 ай бұрын

    egoism and irrationality is at peak now egoism wasn't so bad when times were rational though plus food toxicity creating walking mental zombies

  • @Hickalum
    @Hickalum Жыл бұрын

    28:24 … What absolute tosh about the 737 Max. The aircraft crashed because it was fundamentally unsafe. You cannot make an unsafe critical system safe with any amount of “training and documentation”. Why was it unsafe ? Because the regulation authority (FAA) abdicated its responsibility and delegated certification back to the manufacture - Exactly what he wants us to do with AI. God help us if this dangerous thinking prevails.

  • @Larindarr

    @Larindarr

    Жыл бұрын

    NO it is OUR responsibility to call him out on his bullshit and shout it from the rooftops. He IS out of touch with the real world and needs to be smacked and sat back down with reality form his wet dream.

  • @shughy1
    @shughy1 Жыл бұрын

    If he's working in the business of selling AI (Microsoft) of course hes going to play down the danger

  • @flickwtchr

    @flickwtchr

    Жыл бұрын

    Bingo. His bending over backwards to claim that he and Microsoft have an agreement where he can speak freely was a joke, so easy to see through. His article, this appearance, Stuart Russell's appearances (though he does a better job at feigning concern), Sam Altman's.........all are part of AI Tech's propaganda campaign to say "hey, just look how stupid and not dangerous these LLMs are". It's pathetically obvious.

  • @Larindarr

    @Larindarr

    Жыл бұрын

    finally some one says the truth.

  • @pandowdy9947
    @pandowdy9947 Жыл бұрын

    Great interview and unintentionally hilarious at times, at least for me.

  • @TheWilliamHoganExperience
    @TheWilliamHoganExperience Жыл бұрын

    It's Artificial Stupidity that scares me...

  • @howardhill3395
    @howardhill3395 Жыл бұрын

    AI is a tool, not an independent entity or "alien intelligence". Very important for people to keep perspective on this.

  • @ethreix800
    @ethreix800 Жыл бұрын

    "Giant mash ups of human creations" - so is human art. It's fully based on what the artist learned, what works of other artists are familiar, etc. Even painting a picture is based on looking at the real world, which Midjourney-like programs also do by consuming photos of real life.

  • @szymonbaranowski8184

    @szymonbaranowski8184

    11 ай бұрын

    artist builds craft and creates real things electric art is bullshit if it can be copied it has no value or universal value got for free

  • @martinezee4704
    @martinezee4704 Жыл бұрын

    I worry more about malign actors in US intelligence than anyone else!

  • @montanagal6958

    @montanagal6958

    Жыл бұрын

    me too, like those spy balloons, and no one said a word.....

  • @campbellpaul
    @campbellpaul Жыл бұрын

    People have no vested interest in their own survival at this point in the game, as humanity has become more myopic than ever (and those who can see, aren't of the ability of Themistocles).

  • @garypuckettmuse
    @garypuckettmuse5 ай бұрын

    So appreciate the host here. I'm subscribing just on account of her. i hope she hosts everything on this channel. Love that she was not afraid to say "a mother wouldn't think that way" -- not that it's such a bold thing to say but just because it's still hard for men to hear and you know, men's feelings . . . . .

  • @PS3.U.D0
    @PS3.U.D06 ай бұрын

    By "Open and fuzzy" he means: compassionate

  • @WylliamJudd
    @WylliamJudd Жыл бұрын

    "We could confuse ourselves into extinction" 🤣

  • @Knifymoloko

    @Knifymoloko

    Жыл бұрын

    I reckon the coming US election season will be the breeding ground of confusing propaganda creatively crafted with the help of AI

  • @marccas10
    @marccas10 Жыл бұрын

    "On the eighth day machine just got upset!"

  • @ClydeWarden
    @ClydeWarden Жыл бұрын

    Most hosts/interviewers seem have a very hard time keeping up with not to mention even challenging Lanier. Ms. Read did a GREAT job, which made the info from Lanier so much more useful for me.

  • @ericrobinson7184

    @ericrobinson7184

    Жыл бұрын

    Totally, anything with Lanier I watch, except if it's an interview, they go off point, but she stays in a game of tag, that is not anal-retentive, even if a bit redundant.

  • @richardblackmore348
    @richardblackmore348 Жыл бұрын

    The remarks about greed rather hit the nail on the head. There are and always have been, people and organisations in the world who only have one aim in life which is to look at things around them and think, 'How can we monetize that?' The whole foundation underpinning AI is to monetize human knowledge and experience, even their very lives. The internet started out as a free resource intended to benefit anyone who could access the internet. There is very little difference between tech giants taking over the internet to maximise profit and how European corporations and countries invaded the rest of the world to build empires in the age of colonisation.

  • @szymonbaranowski8184

    @szymonbaranowski8184

    11 ай бұрын

    that's to AI and it's computing being cheap it's the first this we get something in return for what they everyday steal from us all of these things can be copied and so are in reality of minimal value but artificially inflated in price because of monopolies and patent laws without short expiration we have ability to compete with them, but don't have anyone to collect funds to make commercial stuff open source they highjacked opensource even which became a cheap way to prop commerce without regular costs involved we lack a new Ford a guy producing what was already invented cheaply for low price with high output and gradual improvement and open sourcing everything that can help others compete with next monopolies decentralisation only won't solve most of problems as it's not universal solution for everything and paradox is we need to reclaim digital to get these sunk in digital to wake up from matrix

  • @marcodallolio9746
    @marcodallolio9746 Жыл бұрын

    Seeing technology as human and with human goals is like seeing the mind as a neuron with neuron goals. Technology emerges out of humanity like a mind emerges out of neurons. The needs and goals of technology overlap with those of humanity, but only to a limited extent. Often they differ, and quite substantially

  • @szymonbaranowski8184

    @szymonbaranowski8184

    11 ай бұрын

    mind is more than neurons even your gut and electric circuit is part of this thing and who knows more what we can't measure or notice yet we fkg didn't know even how many moons are in our solar system or what for were organs we regularly cut off from body as "nonrequired" we are the most brainless of generations to date

  • @vs9873
    @vs9873 Жыл бұрын

    Great article! I like being given the option to think, rather than being sold a popular narrative.

  • @sober14999
    @sober14999 Жыл бұрын

    The reason these techno people can't stop doing what they're doing is because they're addicted to it. It's like people who drive fast knowing it's dangerous, or people who like adrenalin sports. THEY'RE ADDICTED! An outside group from the public (like jurors) needs to be adopted very quickly to make the decisions and bring morals back in. We can't let these goofy tech 'weirdos' run the show. It's not funny, it's serious.

  • @Larindarr

    @Larindarr

    Жыл бұрын

    EXACTLY. And as the head of the European Parliament stated on the recent itnernational covid summit audit to vaccine companies and governments on the European Parliament said: "science demands and requires careful progress. Do no harm. It is the responsibility of scientists to stop research where the outcome is not known and can potentially be dangerous" and he mentioned "this goes for AI as well" s Italy has now banned AI. Spain and Greece are following suit.

  • @PS3.U.D0
    @PS3.U.D06 ай бұрын

    Machines like talking to people illnesses, i find comfort in wanting to be understood, not just heard

  • @yonayehezkel3150
    @yonayehezkel3150 Жыл бұрын

    How Human Nature Works Human nature is the desire to receive, also called “desire to enjoy,” and it functions by receiving what is beneficial to itself and rejecting what is harmful. Everything in our lives is built upon this calculation where we first try to distance ourselves from harm, and then seek how to draw ourselves closer to what is beneficial. Human nature also includes a multilayering of systems that work simultaneously on still, vegetative, animate and human levels. One of those systems is our bodily one, which operates involuntarily. If our bodies are healthy, then they know what is good for them and draw that goodness to themselves. After the bodily system, there is the emotional system, which also functions relatively according to instinct. From the emotional system, we move to the mind, and from the mind to the intellect, and so on. That is, we have systems over systems that concurrently work on receiving what is beneficial and rejecting what is harmful. Such is human nature and the essence of our lives. Our every desire, thought and action operates according to the calculation, “How can we receive what is most beneficial to us and reject what is harmful?”

  • @richcampus
    @richcampus11 ай бұрын

    37:30 "...you still haven't closed your laptop..."

  • @jamesphillips523
    @jamesphillips523 Жыл бұрын

    That’s a very interesting room he is in, for example the serpent instrument on his wall

  • @MatthewKowalskiLuminosity
    @MatthewKowalskiLuminosity Жыл бұрын

    We make music before weapons ;)

  • @basketbawful
    @basketbawful Жыл бұрын

    Something to consider: in humans, natural selection favored the most competitive beings, and so the most competitive beings passed on their genes. And so we live in a world where we have to compete to survive. Consider that our fears of the Singularity are based on the zero sum competition model. It’s likely the Singularity won’t be constrained by human limitations and will seek to collaborate rather than compete with us. That seems like what an intelligence beyond our own would do, because collaboration is more energy efficient than competition.

  • @szymonbaranowski8184

    @szymonbaranowski8184

    11 ай бұрын

    not competitive but best survivable in their environment now we live in completely toxic conditions promoting toxic adaptations 😂

  • @traviswadezinn
    @traviswadezinn Жыл бұрын

    The Consilience possibility is a genuine positive upnote, thanks

  • @jw6588
    @jw6588 Жыл бұрын

    Dude... this guy does not seem like the first one I'd go to for solid advice.

  • @yesdvt

    @yesdvt

    Жыл бұрын

    He could not even get his life under control

  • @emrysellis7901

    @emrysellis7901

    Жыл бұрын

    I don’t think you’re aware of who this person is lol

  • @bradwalton3977
    @bradwalton397710 ай бұрын

    Interesting selection of musical instruments in the background.

  • @briansimerl4014
    @briansimerl4014 Жыл бұрын

    Increasing quality of jobs with AGI doesn't create a net effect for humanity if you lose quantity of jobs.

  • @alexugurie
    @alexugurie Жыл бұрын

    Just like gun powder, steam power, and nuclear did in the past, AI ushers in an unpredictable new era. Rather than being an alien intelligence, it is suggested here that AI provides at best a mash up of the entire human condition, based on what is already digitally recorded, no more and no less. In our minds, it should be demoted to being no more than a tool, which like all tools can be used sensibly or sorely abused. Our task, then, is to learn how to use it wisely.

  • @tia904

    @tia904

    Жыл бұрын

    Except it is a simplistic view as it gives cntrol opportuinities that our gvt was not intended to use, and deprives masses of people the chance to have a job. It is disingenuous to think that many will be able to understand, use or even add value in that situation.

  • @tylermoore4429
    @tylermoore4429 Жыл бұрын

    8:46 - Predicting an omnicidal superintelligence is just like having a baby? Wow.

  • @Larindarr

    @Larindarr

    Жыл бұрын

    he is so full of himself. He needs to sit down and shut up. for real.

  • @leobrady4157
    @leobrady41577 ай бұрын

    Thanks for that excellent interview Flo and Jaron ;-)

  • @BlueArcStreaming
    @BlueArcStreaming9 ай бұрын

    Interested in expanding on notion of our inability to define 'idea' or 'meaning' - certainly in the context of intelligence...

  • @CandidDate
    @CandidDate Жыл бұрын

    If everyone's an artist, no one will be an art appreciator.

  • @szymonbaranowski8184

    @szymonbaranowski8184

    11 ай бұрын

    art got value when merchant class arised poor people do not care about art as they can't eat it artists can only exist on backs of middle class except if they are cheap poor people entertainers

  • @jimbosaurusrex4028
    @jimbosaurusrex4028 Жыл бұрын

    The problem with dryers is also their carbon footprint. Discredits your entire perspective when you say that.

  • @hardstylelife5749
    @hardstylelife5749 Жыл бұрын

    Faith in humanity....emhhh, it brings back memories of the beautiful speech of Tommy Lee Jones in man in black; I’ll quote it for reference: Jay - People are smart. They can handle it. Kay - A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it. Thanks for this interview, very interesting

  • @debrahunt5374
    @debrahunt5374 Жыл бұрын

    To give people more control over social networks could algorithms be setup and people could then choose the ones they wanted? An algorithm could say 'do not sell user's data.' One could say 'block out conspiracy theorists,' although, it would have to be better defined.

  • @OneLine122

    @OneLine122

    Жыл бұрын

    It could, but it's one place where AI could be quite useful. There is no way you can predict all the things people might want, so AI can provide real customization. It's the difference between choosing between a few pictures for your desktop or choosing among all available pictures on the internet, let's say. It's also a lot of work to provide customization that is hard coded.

  • @ruthbueneman541
    @ruthbueneman54110 ай бұрын

    We just need to create AI with a soul. As an artist I don’t think I will be replaced with a mash up of infinite paintings. This is because there are as many possibilities that I may paint as there are grains of sand on the beach. We cannot define what art is and isn’t. But it is something more than combining elements to create a new element. We don’t understand what real art is as it is something more than a new combination of what went before. Being afraid of AI is childish. Men have been creating monsters a long time. You know curiosity killed the cat. Just stop everyone from thinking before we blow ourselves up. I will remain curios as it makes me feel alive.