0012: Evan Prodromou, AI practitioner (part 2)

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This episode is the 2nd (and final) part of our conversation with Evan Prodromou, software developer, open source advocate and AI practitioner extraordinaire. Hope you enjoy it as much as we did!

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Is there an existential risk from Human-level (and beyond) Artificial Intelligence? If so, what can we do about it?

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0009: Deep Learning: What the heck is deep learning? by Concerning AI | Existential Risk From Artificial Intelligence
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-4: And So It Begins: And So It Begins! We didn't used to be concerned about artificial intelligence, but now we are. by Concerning AI | Existential Risk From Artificial Intelligence
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0002: Consciousness: Following up on last episode's question, "What is intelligence?" this episode we attempt to unpack "consciousness." by Concerning AI | Existential Risk From Artificial Intelligence
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0000: Reboot as Concerning AI: This is a reboot. After recording 4 episodes of what we thought would be the Friendly AI podcast, here is Episode 0000 of Concerning AI. by Concerning AI | Existential Risk From Artificial Intelligence
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0005: Paths to Superintelligence: How might we get to superintelligence? This episode explores some possible paths, or maybe simply directions. by Concerning AI | Existential Risk From Artificial Intelligence
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-2: Shock Levels: Shock levels by Concerning AI | Existential Risk From Artificial Intelligence
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0017: Give them the moon: What would it mean to entangle with technology rather than leave the biosphere behind? Could we just send the AI to the moon? by Concerning AI | Existential Risk From Artificial Intelligence
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0006: Compassion: Are we missing "compassion" when thinking about our AI descendants? by Concerning AI | Existential Risk From Artificial Intelligence
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-1: Embodiment: Does an AI need embodiment? by Concerning AI | Existential Risk From Artificial Intelligence
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0007: Cosmists, Terrans, and Cyborgists: Are we cosmists or terrans? by Concerning AI | Existential Risk From Artificial Intelligence
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0003: Skeptics: The “skeptic” position seems to be that, although we should probably get a couple of bright people to start working on preliminary aspects of the problem, we shouldn’t panic or start trying to ban AI research. The “believers”, meanwhile, insist that although we shouldn’t panic or start trying to ban AI research, we should probably get a couple of bright people to start working on preliminary aspects of the problem. by Concerning AI | Existential Risk From Artificial Intelligence
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0043: Not a Propeller Hat Episode: Are we living our lives as if AI were an existential threat? by Concerning AI | Existential Risk From Artificial Intelligence
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0004: Prioritization of Risks: Existential risk – One where an adverse outcome would either annihilate Earth- originating intelligent life or permanently and drastically curtail its potential by Concerning AI | Existential Risk From Artificial Intelligence
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-3: Running Toward or Running Away: Is it better to run toward something (compelling) or away from something (scary)? by Concerning AI | Existential Risk From Artificial Intelligence
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0027: Listener Feedback and the Locality Effect: Korey’s comment: … one question you asked on ‘The Locality Principle’, was what other people are doing to avert a possible AIpocalypse; I’m starting a company! An entertainment venture with one driving purpose: to create a fully realized virtual world, one with as many complex and varied entities as the real world itself. … Links for […] by Concerning AI | Existential Risk From Artificial Intelligence
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0010: Don’t Worry, Be Happy: We haven't found strong arguments on the "Don't be worried. Here's why ..." side of things. We know the arguments must exist, but we can't find them (send them to us!). So, what to do? Make some arguments up, that's what! by Concerning AI | Existential Risk From Artificial Intelligence
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0001: What is Intelligence?: Our goal on this episode is to establish a "good enough" definition of intelligence that we'll be able to refer back to in future episodes. by Concerning AI | Existential Risk From Artificial Intelligence
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0019: Do Ethics Give Cyborgs or Robots an Advantage?: Human augmentation may be a way for humans to advance on par with non-biological beings (AIs), but do ethical guidelines make that less likely to happen? by Concerning AI | Existential Risk From Artificial Intelligence
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0016: More on AlphaGo: Brandon is back and we talk at length about how AlphaGo works and what the implications are, such that we can see with our feeble human minds. by Concerning AI | Existential Risk From Artificial Intelligence
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0013: Listener Feedback: Ben's frustrated with us. Let's see if we can figure out why. by Concerning AI | Existential Risk From Artificial Intelligence
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0023: That Would Just Be Absurd: Are people better than robots? by Concerning AI | Existential Risk From Artificial Intelligence
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0025: The Concerning AI Summer is Over: Some things we talked about: Companies developing narrow AI, not giving one thought about AI safety, because just getting the thing to work at all is really hard. Self-driving cars and how fast they’re progressing Difference between Open AI and MIRI in approach Weaponized offense and defense Eliezer’s thought about that missing the point http://traffic.libsyn.com/friendlyai/ConcerningAI-episode-0025-2016-09-04.mp3 by Concerning AI | Existential Risk From Artificial Intelligence
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0029: I Disagree, Therefore I am: We recorded this episode on Nov 6, 2016, two days before the US election. Sorry it’s taken so long to get out. Also, no show notes due to need to simply get it published and avoid further delay. Enjoy! http://traffic.libsyn.com/friendlyai/ConcerningAI-episode-0029-2016-11-06.mp3 by Concerning AI | Existential Risk From Artificial Intelligence
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0008: Exponentials: Exponentials are powerful and very difficult to understand (because we think linearly) by Concerning AI | Existential Risk From Artificial Intelligence
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0011: Evan Prodromou, AI practitioner (part 1): Evan's awesome. Great to talk with a bona fide AI practitioner. Just getting things started. by Concerning AI | Existential Risk From Artificial Intelligence
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0015: AlphaGo goes up 3-1 on Lee Sedol: http://traffic.libsyn.com/friendlyai/ConcerningAI-episode-0015-2016-03-13.mp3 Ted talks with special guest Eric Saumur about AlphaGo, compassion, desires and more. by Concerning AI | Existential Risk From Artificial Intelligence
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0018: The One True Doomsday: Throughout history there have been doomsayers, yet we're still here. What makes today's doomsday scenarios different? by Concerning AI | Existential Risk From Artificial Intelligence
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0032: Westworld: In which we talk about Westworld, among other things. by Concerning AI | Existential Risk From Artificial Intelligence
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0014: What if AI aren’t “Other”? – A kinder gentler podcast: From now on, we seek to come from a place or empathy on this show, even when it seems to not make sense. There's nothing to win here. by Concerning AI | Existential Risk From Artificial Intelligence
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0020: AI in Fiction: Fiction is fun. And, we can't rely on it to help us figure out what's going to happen. by Concerning AI | Existential Risk From Artificial Intelligence
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0060: Peter Scott’s Timeline For Artificial Intelligence Risks: Timeline For Artificial Intelligence Risks Peter’s Superintelligence Year predictions (5% chance, 50%, 95%): 2032/2044/2059 You can get in touch with Peter at HumanCusp.com and Peter@HumanCusp.com For reference (not discussed in this episode): Crisis of Control: How Artificial SuperIntelligences May Destroy Or Save the Human Race by Peter J. Scott http://traffic.libsyn.com/friendlyai/ConcerningAI-episode-0060-2018-01-21.mp3 by Concerning AI | Existential Risk From Artificial Intelligence
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0059: Unboxing the Spectre of a Meltdown: SpectreAttack.com http://traffic.libsyn.com/friendlyai/ConcerningAI-episode-0059-2018-01-14.mp3 by Concerning AI | Existential Risk From Artificial Intelligence
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0058: Why Disregard the Risks?: There are understandable reasons why accomplished leaders in AI disregard AI risks. We discuss what they might be. Wikipedia’s list of cognitive biases Alpha Zero Virtual Reality recorded January 7, 2017, originally posted to Concerning.AI http://traffic.libsyn.com/friendlyai/ConcerningAI-episode-0058-2018-01-07.mp3 by Concerning AI | Existential Risk From Artificial Intelligence
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0057: Waymo is Everybody?: If the Universe Is Teeming With Aliens, Where is Everybody? http://traffic.libsyn.com/friendlyai/ConcerningAI-episode-0057-2017-11-12.mp3 by Concerning AI | Existential Risk From Artificial Intelligence
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0053: Listener Feedback: Great voice memos from listeners led to interesting conversations. by Concerning AI | Existential Risk From Artificial Intelligence
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0050: Paths to AGI #3: Personal Assistants: 3rd in a series about future of current narrow AIs. by Concerning AI | Existential Risk From Artificial Intelligence
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0049: After On by Rob Reid: Read After On by Rob Reid, before you listen or because you listen. by Concerning AI | Existential Risk From Artificial Intelligence
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0047: Paths to AGI #2: Robots: This is our 2nd episode thinking about possible paths to superintelligence focusing on one kind of narrow AI each show. This episode is about embodiment and robots. It's possible we never really agreed about what we were talking about and need to come back to robots. Future ideas for this series include: personal assistants (Siri, Alexa, etc) non-player characters search engines (or maybe those just fall under tools social networks or other big data / working on completely different time / size scale from humans collective intelligence simulation whole-brain emulation augmentation (computer / brain interface) self-driving cars See also: 0046: Paths to AGI #1: Tools Robots learning to pick stuff up Roomba mapping https://youtu.be/iZhEcRrMA-M https://youtu.be/97hOaXJ5nGU https://youtu.be/tynDYRtRrag https://youtu.be/FUbpCuBLvWM by Concerning AI | Existential Risk From Artificial Intelligence
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0042: Listener Feedback: Listener Feedback this episode by Concerning AI | Existential Risk From Artificial Intelligence
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