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Roman Yampolskiy: belief

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

“I may be wrong, but I think Stuart Russell’s ideas are all about machines which are uncertain about what humans want and trying to learn better and better what we want.”

— Roman Yampolskiy

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Roman Yampolskiy
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belief
Recorded
2 Jun 2024
Publisher
Lex Fridman Podcast

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…But I mean, you have doubt about yourself. The AI systems that has a doubt about whether the thing is doing is causing harm is the right thing to be doing. So, just a constant doubt about what it’s doing because it’s hard to be a dictator full of doubt. I may be wrong, but I think Stuart Russell’s ideas are all about machines which are uncertain about what humans want and trying to learn better and better what we want. The problem of course is we don’t know what we want and we don’t agree on it. Yeah, but uncertainty. His idea is that having that self-doubt uncertainty in AI systems, engineering into AI systems, is one way to solve the control problem.…

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