Max Tegmark

It seemed like it didn't work out right.

Should I try it differently?

What's nice about this is it's not just philosophical mumbo jumbo, it's theorems and technical work that with more time, I think it can make a lot of progress.

And there are a lot of brilliant people now working on AI safety.

We just need to give them a bit more time.

But also not that many relative to the scale of the problem.

No, exactly.

There should be, at least just like every university worth its name has some cancer research going on in its biology department, right?

Every university that does computer science should have a real effort in this area, and it's nowhere near that.

This is something I hope is changing now, thanks to the GPT-4.

So I think if there's a silver lining to what's happening here, even though I think many people would wish it would have been rolled out more carefully, is that this might be the wake-up call that humanity needed to really...

Stop fantasizing about this being 100 years off and stop fantasizing about this being completely controllable and predictable because it's so obvious it's not predictable.

Why is it that, I think it was ChatGPT tried to persuade a journalist, or was it ChatGPT to divorce his wife?

It was not because the engineers who built it was like, let's put this in here and screw a little bit with people.

They hadn't predicted it at all.

They built the giant black box, trained to predict the next word, and got all these emergent properties.

And oops, it did this.

I think this is a very powerful wake-up call.

And anyone watching this who's not scared,

I would encourage them to just play a bit more with these tools.