Evidence receipt / uncertainty
Published · transcript-backedRoman Yampolskiy: uncertainty
2 Jun 2024 Lex Fridman Podcast #431 – Roman Yampolskiy: Dangers of Superintelligent AI
“Many things are real on the internet, but I don’t think anyone, if I told them, “Sit down [inaudible 01:54:56] function to feel pain,” they would go beyond having an integer variable called pain and increasing the count. So we don’t know how to do it.”
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- Roman Yampolskiy
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- uncertainty
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- 2 Jun 2024
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- Lex Fridman Podcast
Transcript context
…That’s a real thing? Many things are real on the internet, but I don’t think anyone, if I told them, “Sit down [inaudible 01:54:56] function to feel pain,” they would go beyond having an integer variable called pain and increasing the count. So we don’t know how to do it. And that’s unique. That’s what creates meaning. It would be kind of, as Bostrom calls it, Disneyland without children if that was gone. Do you think consciousness can be engineered in artificial systems? Here, let me go to 2011 paper that you wrote, Robot Rights. “Lastly, we would like to address a sub-branch of machine ethics, which on the surface has little to do with safety, but which is claimed to play a role in decision making by ethical machines, robot rights.” So do you think it’s possible to engineer consciousness in the machines, and thereby the question extends to our legal system, do you think at that point robots should have rights?…
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