A tip alleging a Silicon Valley conspiracy leads to a much bigger story: the race to build artificial general intelligence — within the next few years — and the factions vying to accelerate it, to stop it, or to prepare for its arrival.
FEATURING:
Mike Brock, Kevin Roose, Geoffrey Hinton, Conno...
A tip alleging a Silicon Valley conspiracy leads to a much bigger story: the race to build artificial general intelligence — within the next few years — and the factions vying to accelerate it, to stop it, or to prepare for its arrival.
FEATURING:
Mike Brock, Kevin Roose, Geoffrey Hinton, Connor Leahy, William MacAskill, Liv Boeree, Sam Harris, and Yoshua Bengio
LINKS:
Sam Harris 2016 TED Talk, Can We Build AI Without Losing Control Over It
Nick Bostrom's book Superintelligence
Sam Harris' Making Sense podcast
Center for AI Safety
Hard Fork podcast
Geoffrey Hinton’s resignation coverage: Why the “godfather of AI” left Google to warn about existential risk
William MacAskill's book What We Owe the Future
Eliezer Yudkowsky's book If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies
Liv Boeree's podcast: Win Win
CREDITS:
This episode of The Last Invention was reported and produced by Andy Mills, Gregory Warner, Andrew Parsons, Megan Phelps-Roper, Matthew Boll, Seth Temple Andrews, and Ethan Mannello. It is hosted by Gregory Warner
Music for this episode was composed by Scott Devendorf, Ben Lanz, Cobey Bienert, and Matthew Boll
The Last Invention artwork by Jacob Boll
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