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#368 – Eliezer Yudkowsky: Dangers of AI and the End of Human Civilization

#368 – Eliezer Yudkowsky: Dangers of AI and the End of Human Civilization

FromLex Fridman Podcast


#368 – Eliezer Yudkowsky: Dangers of AI and the End of Human Civilization

FromLex Fridman Podcast

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Length:
203 minutes
Released:
Mar 30, 2023
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Podcast episode

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Eliezer Yudkowsky is a researcher, writer, and philosopher on the topic of superintelligent AI. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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OUTLINE:
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(00:00) - Introduction
(05:19) - GPT-4
(28:00) - Open sourcing GPT-4
(44:18) - Defining AGI
(52:14) - AGI alignment
(1:35:06) - How AGI may kill us
(2:27:27) - Superintelligence
(2:34:39) - Evolution
(2:41:09) - Consciousness
(2:51:41) - Aliens
(2:57:12) - AGI Timeline
(3:05:11) - Ego
(3:11:03) - Advice for young people
(3:16:21) - Mortality
(3:18:02) - Love
Released:
Mar 30, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

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Conversations at MIT and beyond about the nature of intelligence with some of the most interesting people in the world thinking about AI from the perspective of deep learning, robotics, AGI, neuroscience, philosophy, psychology, cognitive science, economics, physics, mathematics, and more.