Stuart Russell
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1,902 appearances
3 recordings
3 series
first heard Dec 2018
last heard 24 Jun
Stuart Russell’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And then man will be faced with his true eternal problem.
How to live, I don't remember the exact word, but how to live wisely and well when the economic incentives, the economic constraints are lifted.
We don't have an answer to that question, right?
So AI systems are doing pretty much everything we currently call work.
Anything you might aspire to, like you want to become a surgeon.
It takes the robot seven seconds to learn how to be a surgeon that's better than any human being.
Quite possibly, yeah.
And they'll also have, you know, they'll have hands that are, you know, a millimeter in size so they can go inside and do all kinds of things that humans can't do.
And I think we need to put serious effort into this question.
What is a world where AI can do all forms of human work that you would want your children to live in?
what does that world look like?
Tell me the destination so that we can develop a transition plan to get there.
And I've asked AI researchers, economists, science fiction writers, futurists, no one has been able to describe that world.
I'm not saying it's not possible.
I'm
It does not, as far as I know, exist in science fiction.
You know, it's notoriously difficult to write about a utopia.
It's very hard to have a plot, right?
Nothing bad happens in utopia, so it's difficult to make a plot.
So usually you start out with a utopia and then it all falls apart and that's how you get a plot.
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