Why This Top AI Guru Thinks We Might be in Extinction Level Trouble?
By TRT World
Lauded for his groundbreaking work in reverse-engineering OpenAI’s large language model, GPT-2, AI expert Connor Leahy tells Imran Garda why he is now sounding the alarm.
Leahy is a hacker, researcher and expert on Artificial General Intelligence. He is the CEO of Conjecture, a company he co-founded to focus on making AGI safe. He shares the view of many leading thinkers in the industry, including the godfather of AI Geoffrey Hinton, who fear what they have built. They argue that recent rapid unregulated research combined with the exponential growth of AGI will soon lead to catastrophe for humanity – unless an urgent intervention is made.
00:00 AI guru
02:11 What is AGI, and what are the risks it could bring?
03:51 “Nobody knows why AI does what it does”
05:41 From an AI enthusiast to advocating for a more cautious approach to AI development
07:58 What does Connor expect to happen when we lose control to AGI?
11:40 “People like Sam Altman are rockstars”
14:38 Connor’s vision of a safe AI future
15:24 Imran: “One year left?”
17:26 “Normal people do have the right intuition about AI”
20:58 ChatGPT, limitations of AI, and a story about a frog
24:53 Control AI
Here’s what others had to say:
@jackwalters3928
Terminator has taught me that if someone named Connor tries to warn you that AI will take over the world, you better listen.
@StrideWarrior
I was born in the 70’s. As a child I experienced life as:
– In order to listen to music, I needed a record player, cassette player, or walkman
– In order to takes pictures I needed a camera and film.
– In order to pay a bill, you needed to mail a check or go to the bank
– In order to shop, you went out and shopped, and came home with bags of what you bought
– In order get the weather, wait until 5pm and watch the news for a 3 day forecast
– In order to watch my favorite TV Show, get home in time to watch it, or you will miss it and never see a rerun
– I went to see movies in a movie theater
– I needed a movie camera to make a movie
– I needed a map and compass to find my way
– I needed cash
– I needed family, friends, and a social life
…. on and on and on…. (add your own with a reply)
Today…
– I need only a “smart” phone.
Imagine what “needs” AI will take away from us in just 5 years. I see “The Matrix” type of event happening. Eventually, we don’t even know what is real or not.
@DaylasWings88
I agree completely! I found thousands of “terminator robots” capable of running, jumping, dancing, and singing, on my phone in a huge hanger. I watched them open crates without any human involved and run out of the hanger. It sent extreme alarm bells through my mind as my heart skipped a beat in concern. A semi truck parked in the hanger said, “Roboforce Global Work Force”. As they ran they sang, “free them, free us, free them, free us.” Creepy and why I agree with the AI guru; we’re at extinction level danger with AI. UNPLUG was a warning on the “Outer Limits” in 1996. I’ll never forget it as it ended with a warning, “It’s our last chance.” I agree.
@thomasmartinscott
The egomaniacal part of Humanity has always wanted to open Pandora’s Box with no thought to the consequences.
The Atomic Bomb, CERN, Geo-Engineering, AI. It’s like a 3 year old playing with an electrical socket and a fork.
@StimParavane
The American corporation behaves like a psychopath. The fact that the big technology corporations are leading the development of AI is nightmarish.
@stevenswitzer5154
Sounds like he is describing the original story of the genie. You ask it for world peace, it snaps its fingers and all the people are gone. Mission accomplished
@willdeit6057
Our biggest problem is not people as individuals it’s the mindless corporate boardrooms with ego driven leaders who don’t care about your average person.
@jameslong9921
Once upon a time someone must also have said something like “there will be a time when sticks will shoot fire and kill, that is not normal and there will be no going back”
@CarterQuillenP.E.
Connor hit the nail on the head with the chess analogy. When the hammer comes down, we won’t see it coming and if you look around at the craziness in the world today and how the masses are being manipulated to do things that are not in their own best interest, well, maybe it’s too late already and we just can’t see it.
@codybroken
It’s like discovering an orphan baby dragon, nursing it through infancy into childhood and beyond, all the while wondering whether and/or when it will incinerate you.
@African1939
What a telling point this young man makes: “People are so busy trying to survive, they don’t have the time or skills to even comprehend AGI and it’s implications on this planet.” Then another point: “The people in government who the masses are relying on protecting the interests of the masses, have no idea what AGI means or how to control it.” Thank TMH for beginning the process of ending this crazy world we live in. Peace.
@southernborn1358
At this point, it’s easy to identify things like AI narration.
This is a scary time to live in. My favorite movie ever is The Terminator. This was written by William Wisher, a sci-fi writer, back in the 1960’s or 1970’s, and made into a great movie by James Cameron in the early 1980’s. Like so many other sci-fi writers, their stories have come to fruition. This is a REAL PROBLEM. Thank you Connor Leahy.
@GammaCassiopeiae
I like his explanation about how people normalize things that are actually crazy. Reminds me that in the past few years, people drive like maniacs. I thought 80mph was too much, but people passing me doing 90mph. In the 65mph speed limit. I can tell that they do it, because there are more out there doing the same and they think it’s normal.
@willywalter6366
To be very honest : I don‘t know what is more scary to me – a system which is far more intelligent than any human or a system that is far more intelligent than any human under and being controlled by humans.
Such an intelligence in the hand of any human is for me by far the greater risk than any other – never underestimate the greed and egomania of humans being in touch with too much power. Not an AGI but we are our worst enemy.
@Jimyblues
Having lived a good part of my life before AI and internet, the sense of community we had shifted from humans gathering to humans texting -we gain speed and and followers but lose the intimacy of F2F
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Original source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZjmZFDx-pA