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Lex Fridman: belief

2 Jun 2024 Lex Fridman Podcast #431 – Roman Yampolskiy: Dangers of Superintelligent AI

“Oh, I see. That we kind of build Oracle verifiers or rather we build verifiers we believe to be Oracles and then we start to, without any proof, use them as if they’re Oracle verifiers.”

— Lex Fridman

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Lex Fridman
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belief
Recorded
2 Jun 2024
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Lex Fridman Podcast

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…I like Oracle types where you just know that it’s right. Turing likes Oracle machines. They know the right answer. How? Who knows? But they pull it out from somewhere, so you have to trust them. And that’s a concern I have about humans in a world with very smart machines. We experiment with them. We see after a while, okay, they’ve always been right before, and we start trusting them without any verification of what they’re saying. Oh, I see. That we kind of build Oracle verifiers or rather we build verifiers we believe to be Oracles and then we start to, without any proof, use them as if they’re Oracle verifiers. We remove ourselves from that process. We’re not scientists who understand the world. We are humans who get new data presented to us.…

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