Max Tegmark

For the first time, actually, since the many, many years that have passed, since I and many others started warning about this, I feel most people are getting it now.

I was just talking...

this guy in the gas station near our house the other day my and he's like i think we're getting replaced and i think so that's positive that they're finally we're finally seeing this reaction which is the first step towards solving the problem uh second uh i really think that this this vision of only running ai's

If the stakes are really high, they can prove to us that they're safe.

It's really just virus checking in reverse again.

I think it's scientifically doable.

I don't think it's hopeless.

We might have to forfeit some of the technology that we could get if we were putting blind faith in our AIs, but we're still going to get amazing stuff.

No, I think it's hopeless.

That's like trying to prove there about five spaghetti.

What I think, well, the vision I have for success is instead that, you know, just like we human beings were able to look at our brains and...

and distill out the key knowledge.

Galileo, when his dad threw him an apple when he was a kid, he was able to catch it, because his brain could, in this funny spaghetti kind of way, predict how parabolas are gonna move.

His Kahneman system won, right?

But then he got older, and it's like, wait, this is a parabola.

It's Y equals X squared.

I can distill this knowledge out and today you can easily program it into a computer and it can simulate not just that, but how to get to Mars and so on, right?

I envision a similar process where we use the amazing learning power of neural networks to discover the knowledge in the first place, but we don't stop with a black box.

and use that.

We then do a second round of AI where we use automated systems to extract out the knowledge and see what are the insights it's had.