Peter Norvig's Take on AGI, US-China AI Race, AI Safety; Joscha Bach's Take on ChatGPT's Consciousness
Greetings, fellow humans! Sharing some of the most interesting conversations on AI we recently hosted on the BuzzRobot Talks.
Peter Norvig, Google's Director of Research and co-author of the AI textbook 'Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach' had an ask me anything session with the BuzzRobot community. Here are some main takeaways from the conversation — check out the full conversation on our YouTube channel here.
AI development is not a Kurzweil graph but rather asymptotic.
Re competition in search that Google faces: Don't think of Google as 10 blue links but rather Google gives you access to information you need.
Chinese startups have more access to compute.
Software engineers who have access to mission-critical AI should undergo a certification.
Using AI for misinformation is a real risk and there is no clear path to mitigate; only users themselves should be more mindful and critical of information they deal with.
The recording of the conversation
Community shout out!
The BuzzRobot community member, Keith Deutsch, put together a wonderful piece on "On Building Intelligence". In this article, he explores the essential differences between AI "training" and human "learning", diving into how Episodic and Semantic memory work together in the human brain to enable human cognition and learning.
Check out the article
Another guest we had recently – Joscha Bach, a cognitive scientist and AI researcher, discussed with the BuzzRobot community the capability of AI to have a subjective experience of reality, the levels of the development of the human mind, enlightenment and transcendence, how to translate meaning to AI and many more.
The recording of the conversation.