Ask the Mates Anything Round #2 | MOONSHOTS AMA #293
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What is the real bottleneck to building trustworthy AI and where might it be solved first?
What is the real bottleneck to building AI we can actually steer and trust? And where do you think that bottleneck's gonna get solved first? Nothing's gonna ever be able to police AI other than other AI. One of the worst possible outcomes for AI safety is to have
Are you guys not beating a little bit too much on higher education?
The idea of making your best friends for your entire life and thinking for the first time deeply in your entire life, that's essential and that's not gonna go away. What we beat on constantly is the curriculum has been the draw in the past, and the curriculum is clearly going away.
If you had to put your personal PFAB number out there, what probability Would you assign to AI ultimately producing a dramatically better world for humanity?
Humanity will put those risks behind us, definitely within ten years. If we get that far, yeah, I'm ninety-nine point nine percent. P Bloom. I think the single most important thing to get people prepared is to show them evidence after evidence after evidence. You're trying to change their mindset. So show them the data.
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Let's get started. You've got Alex and myself. Um, I've texted Salim and Dave. Let's see if they're I'm here. I'm here. All right, Dave, fantastic. Good, good, good. Salim is probably someplace in uh some airport somewhere. All right, we're gonna get going and uh uh jump in. All right, uh Nathan, you had your hand up from the beginning. Let's let's start with yourself. If you have a question for someone in particular, great or in general.
Yeah.
It's hello? Yeah. Good morning. Good afternoon. Good morning,
guys. Oh my God. I'm such a big fan of you guys. Uh, but I'm gonna make this quick. I'm gonna make this because I I know there's a line. Um First of all, uh I just wanna say thank you guys for, you know, making all this possible. You know what I mean? Um Surely our pleasure. Okay, so um Uh let's see here. I have got a couple questions. Uh
So
let's try and
limit it to one question each and just when we get to as many people. And uh please, Nathan, what's your question?
Okay, uh so Uh this is more like a uh psychology questions uh I just wanted to hear uh your guys' opinion on it. Um as far as uh AI I uh it As we all know, it it's it's continuing to evolve. Um it's continuing to pick up patterns, it's it's continuing to pick up data. uh about all of us and um My question is uh Will we get to a point where Um these leaders like you know uh from OpenAI, Sam Oldman, um Uh you know, Dario, um will they get to will we get to a point where that data will be able to be able to allow the consumer to Uh uh. realize what's going on psychologically, meaning brain patterns. Like uh 'cause eventually uh un enough data will be able to pinpoint um smaller and smaller, right? Like microscopic
uh pinpoints on uh and be able to label certain things that we will never be able to know because it it it would take so much information. So bas sorry Nathan
let's let's let's j let's jump in on that. So uh first of all, I'll just make a quick point. There's a huge number of companies right now that are working on various brain computer interfaces. I just conversation introduction from Ray on a company that's basically putting Um The equivalent of nanobots into the blood into the into the brain that is distributed throughout the brain that's able to read and write. And that will give you incredible fidelity. Alex, in brief, do you want to add anything to that, please? Yeah, I think large language models, foundation models trained off of human behavior on the internet are already a weak form of human mind uploading. I I would point you to exhibit A, which is Jean-Marie King of Meta's work from a few years ago, showing that even the hidden activations of GPT two from a few years ago were linearly correlated with fMRI voxels in the human.
human brain. with the benefit of hindsight, we'll look back and say to if if I understand your question correctly, yes, actually all of this internal human brain state is actually quite leaky into the training data of internet behavior, which in turn is then compressed into the foundation models.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the real bottleneck to building trustworthy AI and where might it be solved first?
0:00–20:17
2
How can AI alignment be achieved and why might policing AI require other AIs?
20:17–40:28
3
What are the prospects and challenges of brain‑computer interfaces and nanobot‑like neural implants?
40:28–59:42
4
How is higher education evolving and what role will universities play in an AI‑driven future?
59:42–1:20:35
5
What strategies should entrepreneurs use to secure funding and launch AI‑focused ventures after graduation?
1:20:35–1:25:57
Speakers
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