Sebastian Malaby

But I think if you just don't worry about conscious or not, you just look at the outward behavior of these machine intelligences, you see that, for example, in a domain like the game of Go, it not only beats humans, it invents new strategies that humans had never thought of.

And so that's more than just imitating humans.

It's actually inventing something completely novel.

And so I do think that this is a creative intelligence that will come up with new knowledge, new science, new breakthroughs.

And it's both exciting and scary.

Yeah, it is.

Absolutely.

I mean, AI is like the new nuclear material.

You know, you can use AI to make your weapons more destructive.

You can have swarms of drones controlled by AI.

You can use AI for cyber hacking.

obviously for intelligence, interpretation and collection.

So this is a super powerful weapon.

Well, maybe the best way to answer is to describe what protein folding really entails.

So you have a strand of amino acid, imagine this string, and it's got some DNA code on it.

And the sequence of the DNA on that string predicts the way that the string will fold itself up like a self-executing origami model into a super complicated intricate shape with tentacles hanging off it and so forth.

And to predict how that string will tie itself up into a knot and a strange shape, it's like it could fold itself in trillions of different ways.

How the heck do you predict that shape?

And AI can do that.

It can just look at the sequence of the code on the string and say, ah,