How Dangerous Is The Threat Of AI To Humanity? - Geoffrey Miller - #650
Modern Wisdom
07/06/23
•79m
About
Comments
Featured In
Geoffrey Miller is a professor of evolutionary psychology at the University of New Mexico, a researcher and an author.
Artificial Intelligence possesses the capability to process information thousands of times faster than humans. It's opened up massive possibilities. But it's also opened up huge debate about the safety of creating a machine which is more intelligent and powerful than we are. Just how legitimate are the concerns about the future of AI?
Expect to learn the key risks that AI poses to humanity, the 3 biggest existential risks that will determine the future of civilisation, whether Large Language Models can actually become conscious simply by being more powerful, whether making an Artificial General Intelligence will be like creating a god or a demon, the influence that AI will have on the future of our lives and much more...
Timestamps:
(00:00) Intro (02:43) Is AI Viewed as an Existential Risk? (06:14) How the Perceived Risk of AI Has Evolved (15:47) Rapid Advancements in Neural Networks (20:07) The Next Level for ChatGPT (28:25) Helping the Public Understand the AI Arms Race (37:16) Who Will Be the First to Create AGI? (40:53) Is the Alignment Problem Still a Problem? (50:42) The Opposing View to AI Safety-ism (54:55) Most Concerning Current AI Advancements (59:36) How AI Will Influence Content & Social Media (1:04:57) How Accurate Can AI Expert Predictions Be? (1:08:40) Something Much Worse than Existential Risk? (1:11:43) Why AI Won’t Save the World (1:19:29) Where to Find Geoffrey
Extra Stuff:
Get my free Reading List of 100 books to read before you die → https://chriswillx.com/books/
To support me on Patreon (thank you): https://www.patreon.com/modernwisdom
-
Episodes You Might Enjoy:
This Is How To Master Your Life - David Goggins - #577: lnkfi.re/SN-Goggins
How To Destroy Your Negative Beliefs - Dr Jordan Peterson - #712: lnkfi.re/SN-Peterson
The Secret Tools To Hack Your Brain - Dr Andrew Huberman - #700: lnkfi.re/SN-Huberman
Get in touch.
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx
Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/modernwisdompodcast
Email: https://chriswillx.com/contact/
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Previous Episode
Anil Seth is a professor of cognitive and computational neuroscientist at the University of Sussex, co-director of the Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science, and an author.
What is the Self? What does it mean that we are the same person we were 10 years ago? Why do we have a subjective experience of reality at all? Is consciousness created or perceived? These are fundamental questions that philosophers and neuroscientists have been trying to answer for centuries. So can a new science of consciousness give us the answers?
Expect to learn why answering the problem of consciousness is such a difficult challenge, why you wake up as the same person everyday, whether we know for a fact that animals are conscious, why perception often is divorced from objective reality, just how reliable our memories are, how to trust your brain even when it's incredibly fallible and much more...
Sponsors:
Get 5 Free Travel Packs, Free Liquid Vitamin D and more from AG1 at https://drinkag1.com/modernwisdom (discount automatically applied)
Get a Free Sample Pack of all LMNT Flavours with your first box at https://www.drinklmnt.com/modernwisdom (automatically applied at checkout)
Get £150 discount on Eight Sleep products at https://eightsleep.com/modernwisdom (discount automatically applied)
Timestamps:
(00:00) Intro (00:28) The Real Problem of Consciousness (04:39) Why is the Self Rooted in Consciousness? (13:10) Thought Experiments to Understand Consciousness (19:39) Are We Experiencing a Controlled Hallucination? (22:40) Looking at Perception Through an Evolutionary Lens (32:29) Studying How to Alter the Predictive Brain (41:17) Where Does Consciousness Arise? (45:38) Testing the Consciousness of Lower Animals (49:36) The Most Common Definitions of Consciousness (59:10) The Challenge of Testing the Internal Processes of Animals (1:05:32) Anil’s Experience with LSD (1:11:04) How Anil’s Studies Have Impacted His Outlook (1:15:58) Where to Find Anil
Extra Stuff:
Check out The Perception Census - https://perceptioncensus.dreamachine.world/
Read Being You - https://amzn.to/3ppLiIj
Get my free Reading List of 100 books to read before you die → https://chriswillx.com/books/
To support me on Patreon (thank you): https://www.patreon.com/modernwisdom
-
Episodes You Might Enjoy:
This Is How To Master Your Life - David Goggins - #577: lnkfi.re/SN-Goggins
How To Destroy Your Negative Beliefs - Dr Jordan Peterson - #712: lnkfi.re/SN-Peterson
The Secret Tools To Hack Your Brain - Dr Andrew Huberman - #700: lnkfi.re/SN-Huberman
Get in touch.
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx
Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/modernwisdompodcast
Email: https://chriswillx.com/contact/
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Next Episode
Can Money Actually Buy You Happiness? - Dr Mike Israetel - #651
July 8, 2023
•112m
Mike Israetel is a bodybuilding and fitness consultant, Temple University professor of Exercise Science, co-founder of Renaissance Periodization and author.
There are thousands of videos online about what it means to be happy and successful, usually all with different conclusions, but most include wealth in some form or another.
Expect to learn why a pessimistic view of life is unrealistic, the extent to which money can buy you happiness, why living in the present moment is overrated, if trading your time for future gains is a smart move, how to find purpose even in jobs you hate, whether worrying about the future will help you be more successful, Mike’s contrarian view on porn, the future of how AI will shape society and much more....
Sponsors:
Get an exclusive discount from Surfshark VPN at https://surfshark.deals/MODERNWISDOM (use code MODERNWISDOM)
Go to https://betterhelp.com/modernwisdom for 10% off your first month of therapy with BetterHelp and get matched with a therapist who will listen and help
Get 15% discount on Mud/Wtr at http://mudwtr.com/mw (use code MODERNWISDOM)
Timestamps:
(00:00) Intro (01:07) So Many People Are Pessimists (03:48) Are We Really Worse Off Than Our Grandparents? (14:10) Why Does the Pessimism Bias Exist? (21:16) Why Realism is More Appropriate than Optimism (25:47) How Can Money Buy Happiness? (36:35) Where Money, Happiness & Success Meet (44:42) Overcoming Fear of Ridicule from Working Harder (53:00) How Worrying Destroys Happiness (1:03:11) The Left-Leaning View of Working for Success (1:09:09) Mike’s Concerns with the Current Right-Wing (1:20:35) Is Porn Actually That Bad? (1:30:01) Something is Sedating Young Men (1:41:04) Why Mike Doesn’t Worry About AI’s Alignment Problem (1:51:47) Where to Find Mike
Extra Stuff:
Get my free Reading List of 100 books to read before you die → https://chriswillx.com/books/
To support me on Patreon (thank you): https://www.patreon.com/modernwisdom
-
Episodes You Might Enjoy:
This Is How To Master Your Life - David Goggins - #577: lnkfi.re/SN-Goggins
How To Destroy Your Negative Beliefs - Dr Jordan Peterson - #712: lnkfi.re/SN-Peterson
The Secret Tools To Hack Your Brain - Dr Andrew Huberman - #700: lnkfi.re/SN-Huberman
Get in touch.
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx
Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/modernwisdompodcast
Email: https://chriswillx.com/contact/
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
If you like this episode you’ll love
Promoted