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Ilya Sutskever (OpenAI Chief Scientist) on Building AGI, Alignment, Spies, Microsoft, & Enlightenment

Dwarkesh Patel asked Ilya Sutskever (Chief Scientist of OpenAI) about time to AGI leaks and spies what’s after generative models post AGI futures working with MSFT and competing with Google difficulty of aligning superhuman AI

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AI Ethics

Can artificial intelligence become sentient, or smarter than we are?

In this episode of Techtopia, DW Chief Technology Correspondent Janosch Delcker takes a deep dive into the world of AI, meeting a scientist on the quest for human-level intelligence, and digging into the questions awaiting us as humanity inches closer to AGI. They call it the holy grail of artificial intelligence research: Building a computer […]

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AI Data Driven Ethics

Is this AI Sentient?

By now, you may have heard the extraordinary claims of a Google ML engineer claiming that the company has developed a sentient AI. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof and, at best, this engineer has been fooled by a really sophisticated language model. However, the legal, ethical, and spiritual dilemmas are quite real and worth thinking […]

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Jonathan Haidt and The Case Against Social Media on the Lex Fridman Podcast

Jonathan Haidt is a social psychologist at NYU and author of The Coddling of the American Mind, The Righteous Mind, and The Happiness Hypothesis. He and Jonathan have an interesting conversation about social media’s impact on society. OUTLINE: 0:00 – Introduction 1:25 – Social media and mental health 15:14 – Mark Zuckerberg 24:51 – Children’s […]

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AI Ethics Startups

Kevin Systrom on Instagram

Kevin Systrom is the co-founder and former CEO of Instagram and he sits down with Lex Fridman, Time stamps: 0:00 – Introduction 0:22 – Origin of Instagram 42:29 – New social networks 1:01:34 – Selling Instagram to Facebook 1:24:36 – Features 1:28:42 – Facebook 2:05:24 – Whistleblower 2:16:43 – Machine learning 2:26:41 – Advice for […]

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Brian Greene on Quantum Gravity, The Big Bang, Aliens, Death, and Meaning

Brian Greene is a theoretical physicist who also educates the public via his books and documentaries appears on Lex Fridman’s podcast. Time stamps: 0:00 – Introduction 0:27 – Entropy 8:35 – Consciousness 24:54 – Quantum gravity 28:14 – String theory 41:41 – Time 54:13 – Free will 58:36 – Emergence and complexity 1:05:48 – The […]

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