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Oly Sourbut

πŸ‘€ Speaker
832 total appearances

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Podcast Appearances

Future of Life Institute Podcast
How AI Can Help Humanity Reason Better (with Oly Sourbut)

Why stop that?

Future of Life Institute Podcast
How AI Can Help Humanity Reason Better (with Oly Sourbut)

Why end that process?

Future of Life Institute Podcast
How AI Can Help Humanity Reason Better (with Oly Sourbut)

We have all these interesting building blocks now.

Future of Life Institute Podcast
How AI Can Help Humanity Reason Better (with Oly Sourbut)

LLMs are the most obvious one.

Future of Life Institute Podcast
How AI Can Help Humanity Reason Better (with Oly Sourbut)

And they enable all kinds of design.

Future of Life Institute Podcast
How AI Can Help Humanity Reason Better (with Oly Sourbut)

The design space is massively opened up right now.

Future of Life Institute Podcast
How AI Can Help Humanity Reason Better (with Oly Sourbut)

And it's really underexplored and underexploited.

Future of Life Institute Podcast
How AI Can Help Humanity Reason Better (with Oly Sourbut)

And yeah, so we think that there's much room to kind of improve that.

Future of Life Institute Podcast
How AI Can Help Humanity Reason Better (with Oly Sourbut)

But maybe you think that this is only a temporary measure.

Future of Life Institute Podcast
How AI Can Help Humanity Reason Better (with Oly Sourbut)

I think that could be the case.

Future of Life Institute Podcast
How AI Can Help Humanity Reason Better (with Oly Sourbut)

But even in that case, there are some really important decisions to be made by society, by individuals, by groups, by societies about where we actually go next and how it is that we're directing that when we're making various kinds of transitions and which transitions we're making.

Future of Life Institute Podcast
How AI Can Help Humanity Reason Better (with Oly Sourbut)

I think a lot of people think of this kind of linear timeline, you know, when are things going to happen?

Future of Life Institute Podcast
How AI Can Help Humanity Reason Better (with Oly Sourbut)

And then it's just bish, bosh, bosh, you know, ABC happens.

Future of Life Institute Podcast
How AI Can Help Humanity Reason Better (with Oly Sourbut)

But actually, the sequence of things and even the choices we have about what parts of the tech tree we explore, I think these are genuinely open.

Future of Life Institute Podcast
How AI Can Help Humanity Reason Better (with Oly Sourbut)

I don't think it's just naive to think that there are actually decisions to be made.

Future of Life Institute Podcast
How AI Can Help Humanity Reason Better (with Oly Sourbut)

And so if we can, in the meantime, enable better decisions to be made by individuals, by societies,

Future of Life Institute Podcast
How AI Can Help Humanity Reason Better (with Oly Sourbut)

And better on their own lights.

Future of Life Institute Podcast
How AI Can Help Humanity Reason Better (with Oly Sourbut)

The two examples I've given, you can see they're very augmentative.

Future of Life Institute Podcast
How AI Can Help Humanity Reason Better (with Oly Sourbut)

They're not kind of preachy.

Future of Life Institute Podcast
How AI Can Help Humanity Reason Better (with Oly Sourbut)

They're not giving a specific position, but they're supporting reasoning and helping people to come to better decisions.