Lex Fridman speaks to Max Tegmark about what AI can do in the fields of scientific research.
Max Tegmark tells Lex Fridman what scares him the most about the direction of AI.
Big Think asks the question: Does conscious AI deserve rights?
Given that we still have trouble defining consciousness in ourselves, this debate resides largely in the philosophical realm rather than the legal or scientific arenas – for now anyways.
Big Think asks if “Is AI a species-level threat to humanity?”
Read the full transcript at https://bigthink.com/videos/will-evil-ai-kill-humanity
Don’t let the first few seconds of him talking Swedish scare you off, he switches to English for the remainder of this insightful talk.
Humans have been trying to quantify consciousness for at least as long as there have been written records and, likely, this search for understanding predates written records.
This is an area where recent advances in math and AI research starts shedding new light on an old topic. In this TEDx talk, Max Tegmark explores the notion of consciousness as an emergent mathematical pattern.