Max Tegmark
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2,248 appearances
4 recordings
2 series
first heard Aug 2018
last heard 3 Nov
Max Tegmark’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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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.
And then we put that knowledge into a completely different kind of architecture or programming language or whatever that's made in a way that it can be both really efficient and also is more amenable to very formal verification.
That's my vision.
I'm not sitting here saying I'm confident, 100% sure that it's going to work.
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