Tristan Harris

Like if I did a brain scan in your brain, could I know from just the brain scan what you're capable of?

No, I can see that this part of your brain lights up when you have that thought, but I can't have a comprehensive picture of like, what is everything that Chris is capable of?

Can he do sociopathic manipulation and do better military strategy than the best US generals?

Like from the brain scan, I can't tell that.

Maybe you can.

But so with AI, we are essentially, you know, when people hear about these huge data centers getting built out, like Facebook's building one or Meta's building one, the size of Manhattan, right?

And you ask, what's going on there?

It's like they're building a bigger and bigger digital brain.

That's what goes from GPT-3 to GPT-4, with more neurons.

When you hear the number of parameters of an AI model, that's essentially the number of neurons in an AI model.

And what they found is that the more GPUs and NVIDIA chips you point at growing this digital brain, the more intelligent it gets, and the more it picks up capabilities that we didn't intentionally teach it.

There was a famous example where...

You just train it on the internet, and then it's answering questions in English, and suddenly it learns how to answer questions in Farsi, like doing Q&A in a different language.

And no one taught it that language.

It just sort of learned that on its own.

And that's what's weird about AI is that it's a black box.

We don't really understand how it works, and yet we're making it more powerful much faster than understanding how it works.

And that's what leads it to make these more unexpected behaviors that we aren't able to control.

And I think we're going to get into some of those.

Yes.