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Published · transcript-backedGuillaume Verdon: belief
29 Dec 2023 Lex Fridman Podcast #407 – Guillaume Verdon: Beff Jezos, E/acc Movement, Physics, Computation & AGI
“I think there’s going to be an opportunity to steer AI and achieve highly aligned AI. And I think that humans plus AI is a very powerful combination and it’s not clear to me that pure AI would select out that combination.”
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- Guillaume Verdon
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- belief
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- 29 Dec 2023
- Publisher
- Lex Fridman Podcast
Transcript context
…Yeah. Right. And which APIs get run? The ones that have high utility to us, right. So similar to how we domesticated wolves and turned them into dogs that are very clear in their expression, they’re very aligned, right. I think there’s going to be an opportunity to steer AI and achieve highly aligned AI. And I think that humans plus AI is a very powerful combination and it’s not clear to me that pure AI would select out that combination. So the humans are creating the selection pressure right now to create AIs that are aligned to humans, but given how AI develops and how quickly it can grow and scale, to me, one of the concerns is unintended consequences, like humans are not able to anticipate all the consequences of this process. The scale of damage that could be done through unintended consequences with AI systems is very large.…
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