Michael I. Jordan: evaluation

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…Nature said that you are the most influential computer scientist. It exists in the real world. This is a abstraction, but it's a it's a real thing. It's like f equals m a. It's a set of it'll make predictions. So if I write down a game, just like I wrote down f equals m a in some coordinate system, I can now predict what'll happen. I don't think we need to see that. I think this anthropomorphizing of intelligence and understanding all that is not necessary, not appropriate, and is is a distraction for many many problems. Why say it? Understands. I think it's science fiction, and I think science fiction is important for society, but it's also at the level it's being promoted and those kind of voices, it's really hurting 25 and 20 year olds. These these young folks of whom there are huge numbers are excited about technology and they want to build things that help their family and help their country. Actually more of their family than their country, honestly. And they see real opportunities in doing that. And they're kind of being told by the leaders, well, we had our fun. We developed a bunch of algorithms. We did it and we were just interested in the pure understanding intelligence, even though they didn't understand intelligence. They built gradient descent algorithms. And now you guys, you can't do this because it's dangerous. It's gonna it's gonna wipe out humanity with a with a high probability, or it's superintelligible to arrive soon, so there's nothing left to do. That's in your lifetime. That is so demoralizing. So demoralizing. And that thing, I think that bothers me the most. I mean, the second part that bothers me is there's no economic thinking going on there. So the current generation is just way too you know, there's not much thought going on, not much intellectual stuff. It's just, yeah, it's possible to build it, it's possible to steal the data from wherever you want to because that's what the Internet allowed to happen and not return any value to the person who originated the data. It's possible to run greedy descent on that but you need huge amounts of money but it's now possible to get it from people who aren't thinking very deeply. I I don't think it's bad to build systems you don't understand. But I think this level of detachment from reality is unusual for human history. This episode is supported by CyberFund. If you're building at the frontier of AI, they want to hear from you. CyberFund believes the future belongs to AI natives who want to achieve the impossible, and that is why they're introducing the monastery for AI native founders. It's an environment of pure focus and rapid execution for founders operating at AI native speed, And they're offering teams $2,000,000 each to participate. Apply now at cyber.fund. And what do you think about the term AGI, by the way?…

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