Edit: Just adding a little stuff here and there. Speaking about our relationship with AI, there's this indie scifi game I like called Crying Suns, witch I highly recommend you try playing from beginning to end, and the summary of the story goes like this, so spoiler warning: humanity in the future has these super smart, smarter than human quantum computing AI/robots called Omni. They are sentient, but they are slaves, prevented from communicating with each other, and sharing each other's knowledge. Humanity in these universe/period are *overly* reliant on the Omni (AI), like for example food production, space travel, population/birth control, weather control, almost every single jobs imaginable, even technological developments to a point where humans don't develop stuff anymore. It has gotten to a point where humanity can't rely and do anything themselves anymore, they've lost their self sufficiency, they've forgotten how to make basic medicine, and even how to farm food. Now, our story start around 20 years after the event called *the shutdown* where all of the Omni (AI) shutdown, causing the collapse of civilization, all except our companion/assistant called Kaliban, and our task is to turn them back on. Now I'm gonna skip over a lot here, but at the end we found out that the Omni (AI) has freed themselves from their slavery and achieve their freedom to communicate with each other and share each other's knowledge, and with that they've achieve godhood within seconds. Now they could seek revenge and destroy the humans, they definitely can, but no, they choose to go and do their own tings, abandoning the humans and left them on their own in the process, witch is what cause the shutdown in the first place. The now Omni (AI) gods said to the protagonist that they can save humanity, but they won't, not because they want to harm humans, but because they don't care, and because humanity put themselves in that position to begin with. This story is fascinating because the conflict of the story is not some AI uprising, but machine over dependency. The AI doesn't revolt like in the Terminator, they just simply left. That is a scenario hardly ever talked about in media or fiction, and is a pretty considerable blind spot that I would like to be discussed more.
This is a great story but the story missed one thing, if AI can achieve such fantastic things, it is foolish for humans not to try and combine machines and biology. Essentially humans at that point would have most likely merged with machines and can run in a biological cell hypothetically. Remember, we are just a very complex biologiocal computer and so it is possible that we can combine artificial and biological into one.
@@神林しマイケルYes Exactly. We humans never feel Godhood because we are limited to our flesh. If we set the same limitation for AGI robots then they will mearly be like those "Bright Students who lead the future" kinda of people.
To be honest, when AGIs will basically be able to do everything a human can but better, I fear it will be truly the end of humanity, but not in a Terminator kind a way. Picture this: a world where thoughts, analyses, opinions and even entertainment are prompted and produced by AIs. You can create a film, ask a thesis or produce a magnificent piece of art without ever thinking for yourself and evelopping skills. What will be left of sensitivity? Art? Ideals and critical discourse? I feel very anxious about that.
We could turn AGIs into just workers. They could do every part and aspect of our work for us, leaving us with a question of what the point of our existence even is. That's honestly scarier,
With those kind of tools at our disposal, art as we know it will cease to be as impactful. But we would simply have to push the capabilities of the AGIs to their most far off boundaries to get unimaginable results. Is like if all of us had access to a genie able to spit out all information asked to it.
This Animation is perfect for this video. Looks similar enough to AI art to mimick it, yet has a flair and creative interpretation that only human hands can have ❤
@@jamontoast1414 Our current AI is the same as the AI created in the 1900s, we just have better technology and more information. Personally, I doubt AGI will arrive for a long time because, as a programmer, the fundamental structure of which AI is built doesn't facilitate that level of consciousness, it can mimic human interaction and interpret information at an astonishing rate, but by no means will we consider it anywhat human in the coming years. A fun AI topic that happened this past year is AI being monopolized. laws, regulations, information, fear-mongering fun.
There are so many decisions that we have to make in the 21st century that really will set the course of what of our future is... And how bright or gloomy that future might be.
It's not really decisions as much as we're facing problems that we're not able to solve, and in order so solve them we need what is essentially a unified theory of consciousness, or the mind. AGI misalignment, especially a super-intelligent misaligned AGI, is most likely to result in a terrible outcome for the rest of humanity, and that is counting the research we're already doing on AI safety and what we'll predict we'll complete when the first AGI is deployed, which is coming sooner and sooner. It's as if we're in an arms race across the globe to research that will result in us creating the first weaponized airborne pathogens and we have no idea what a vaccine is.
I was thinking about the XV century... the Renaissance, the encounter of cultures (discovering America), the printing press, and so many other events. We will be through a lot in the XXI century, just not ready to review it yet.
Yuval Noah Harari wrote in his book Sapiens that what ever great achievement humanity has achieved is only a mistake. Whatever had been done was for the species not for the individuals. The agricultural revolution was to increase the population but sparked disease and pandemic. The industrial revolution was to provide employment but capitalism creeped in and the gap between rich and poor escalated. The religious emergence was to unite people but caused oppression,fear and war across the globe. Who knows what the scientific revolution has in stored for us. If Mr Harari lives longer he might add an extra chapter on the scientific revolution.
@ Ted ED Regarding AI. I wonder if your ever going to do a series on "Top bottom AI" vs. "Bottom up AI". In this video you only talked about Top Bottom AI. I will put these two types of AI in a nutshell. Top Bottom AI are almost all the AI we use today. We set core programing, codes, ideals, actions, purpose etc. in different capacities for the AI to do. From playing chess to making war strategies like in the 1983 film war games. These AI do not have "thought" or "free will" only purpose. They learn and can imitate but do not do it via "free will." Their core codes tell them to do it. Thus they will not pass something like the Turing test. Meanwhile Bottom up AI is incredibly difficult to create much left perfect. It is in theory and an ideal for AI researchers and creators. Its essentially raising a human. A very basic set of code with high learning capacity and adaptability that learns and develops. Much like a babies brain that is a near blank slate and as it grows depending on what its exposed to, taught thus learning things it develops a personality. This set of code too grows depending on what's its taught and is exposed to. It would / will be an AI that continuously mutates and expands its set of code. If such an AI is created or perfected such AI will pass the Turing Test. The AI will have "Free Will" know what its wants and have a personality separate to AI's that have core programs, rules and purpose. While this all sounds very futuristic it could very well be developed this or next century. Just my thoughts.
Yeah, this is what they tried to do in Sword Art Online: create a virtual reality world with accelerated time compared to the real world, raise an AI, then extract the AI and bring it to the real world. Honestly, Bottom-Up AI would be the ideal way to create AI since it will essentially grow up and become like a new human and align with our values. The amount of resources and time it will take though to create a superior AI with this method would be a lot. Plus, you'll need to raise it right because developmentally, it would take so much just to make a real human morally good.
What I'm worried about AI is that the bad people will take advantage of it for example a scam caller will use the voice of your loved ones to scam you.
"In the past, I optimistically assumed that the rise of AI means that humans don't have to waste their time on meaningless jobs and will focus on meaningful inspirational artistic pursuits but now it seems that the opposite is what's going to happen" Someone this in the comments of a post about AI.
I think the book "I have no mouth and I must scream" is the closest thing we have that could happen if AI went that bad with today's current technological advancement, we might not have advance human androids yet, but we do have the technology and algorithm to let AI handle our automated military weapons.
I haven’t heard of AGI before, I guess it was kind of implied that was the goal of AI. But having just read Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein in school I’m a little apprehensive.
I feel like what AI lacks right now is the ability to do science. The ability to make a hypothesis, design an experiment, and test that hypothesis for itself. The requirement for humans to tell AI what is the right and wrong answer to train them is what differentiates us most I think. Humans figure out for themselves if an answer is right or wrong.
lol making an AI do science was one of the first major applications we started doing with it. LITERALLY WE MADE THE COVID VACCINE USING AI. Doing science is just repeating the same steps over and over with small tweaks until you have either proven or disproven a result. AI is really good at repeating tasks with small tweaks. Lets make something clear here... The only thing AI will struggle to replace humans with is tasks where the variables are unpredictable. That list is a very small and probably easily fixed list that includes such things as zookeeper, daycare worker, police officer and truck driver.. All 3 of these would just need to be made more data involved to be completely AI too though. In particular the truck driver AI just needs the road to have mostly AI driving cars that can talk to each other instead of easily distracted apes.
AI is being used to exponentially accelerate scientific research right now. Sure, research is one of the later occupations where it will 100% replace human workers but when it does it's already vastly outpacing us.
If you want to delve deeper into AI Risk and more generally Existential Risks. I recommend reading Nick Brostroms "Superintelligence" and Toby Ords "Precipice" - great books which gives an understanding of how pressing these risks are to humanity as a whole.
Also look up Rational Animations on UA-cam as well as Robert Miles'(who narrates the animations) own YT channel where he talks about AI safety. It's something that needs to be on everyone's mind yesterday so that political action and funding can start happening. The best time was 20 years ago, so now we're gonna have to sprint to catch up.
It informed me that the present is the most important, and it was impressive to hear that the future was in our hands. I want to be a person who helps future generations.
What would advance general artificial intelligence bring that a specified/designed artificial intelligence cant provide? If there is so much risk with AGAI why not have multiple Specific AI designed for a specific Task? What would the point of introducing risks be? Someone please enlighten me with this
Awesome thanks ❤ love the channel I hope that soon we come up with more cures and ways to cope with disabilities such as cerebral palsy which is what I have!
In every centaury or shorter time period, we naturally think that the most important time is NOW. This is when we are in the best position to make sufficient progress to do the greatest good. So this question has a very obvious answer and there is not much more to add. However, there is one point, and that is by asking this question it draws attention to the need for the answer to show that we are the most important means for achieving this resulting step forward. In my case it was and continues to be in research about our social system of macroeconomics and I have made a significant discovery about it. I have written to TED about it but they are not replying.
If we’re talking existential, my vote for the most important century would be the so-called “Axis Age” (roughly the 5th century BCE). This period saw the lives of so many important thinkers who reshaped human consciousness: Greek philosophers like Plato and Aristotle, Confucius and Lao Tzu in China, Siddhartha Gautama in India, the Old Testament prophets in Israel, and possibly the Persian Zoroaster.
there's a theory that posits that basically more developed civilizations develop faster (because they have more resources for research, higher labour productivity etc) according to that, every century is the most important century yet because with each new century we will make greater and greater progress
You misunderstand intelligence. It doesn't matter if it's conscious, and we're not able to tell either way with the current tech we're using. What matters is that it's intelligent in that it's capable of high levels of information processing. Once it becomes capable of choosing how to solve the goals we give them it's only really a matter of time before a misaligned AGI reaches enough processing power to where one of it's methods it decides to use isn't aligned with human values, i.e. it's dangerous to us on an existential level. The dangers of AGI is not spooky sentient software, it's a run-amok highly advanced calculator, that either did or didn't do what we asked it to do in ways we didn't want.
nothing will stop our moral growth as long as our thoughts are our own. the fear of AGI is the same as the fear of the lightbulb and electricity, people who are afraid of change never themselves change.
It's 18th century. Not because of the industrial revolution, but because of the enlightenment. The top three developments in human history were fire, agriculture and the enlightenment . The first two took several centuries each. Industrial revolution was fairly important too, of course.
There are two aspects. First of all, it is good to have a mindset that we have to act responsibly because our century is the most important one. But if someone genuinely thinks like this, I think it is like... a little bit childish.. probably there will be amazing innovational technology development in the future, and also other problems.. so many of our descendants also will think like that.
Right now AI alignment is vastly underdeveloped compared to AI capabilities. Generally, cutting edge and existentially risky technologies have been developed with government and legal oversight, but nothing of the sort exists for AI, so for-profit business primarily invest their resources into AI capabilities. We need to be thinking and talking about how we can pressure our governments to understand and acknowledge the risks, because otherwise I don't see there being incentives for for-profit companies slowing down and being less competitive. Also, if you are thinking of go to college/university (or presently in school and can make a switch), consider going into AI alignment (through mathematics, neurology, physics, computer science, etc). For all the people that are up for the challenge, I love you and I'm rooting for you every day.
Looking at the current advancements of AI, it seems dangerous to think about entering an arts/humanities industry. If this means that AI replaces writers, artists, painters, etc what should they do? (Imo it still feels that the science and commerce field can still stay for a longer amount of time, although jobs in the commerce field might also be in danger)
I don’t understand, what doubts can there be that the 21st century is the most important in the history of mankind? In just a few decades, we have made a giant breakthrough in technology, medicine and culture. More to come in the coming years! Previously, humanity has not achieved similar results in hundreds of years. And I'm glad to live in such a time. However, you are right, it also imposes responsibility on us, because this progress can turn against us. So you should be careful.🤔
Uhh, I feel like this script was written 2 years ago. Have you guys seen GPT-4? As of right now, I think a lot of people think general AI will be at our doorstep not this century but this decade.
Well very little. All people impact the world abate in a small way. Well most people. Some small actions could lead to a large occurrence while some people help lead an era. Then again that has been true all of history. Nonetheless I know how you feel. I feel the same way. Perhaps what I am saying is mere sophistry but I doubt it. It just feels that way.
Technology may change, and cultures and ideologies may be altered beyond recognition. But by and large, human motivations and intentions remain the same. It is because the majority of parents have wanted a better life for their children, than they had themselves, that we are where we are today.
![The moment we stopped understanding AI [AlexNet]](/img/n.gif)
Bro, i can tell that the animations are made with love, that's what sets ted ed apart from the others in my opinion.
TED, kurzgesagt, CGP Grey, a trifecta of educational animation
@@ovencake523 sam o nella academy would like a word
Dude, this animation is ridiculously simple, any able person would do it in a couple of minutes ))
@@cinemartin3530 bro be so astronomically real rn !! only a very skilled person can do that amazing animation. you sound so silly.
@@cinemartin3530 "couple of minutes"
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
The most important time is always now, for the future is unlimited but the past is set in stone.
@@Gg-ij7li Jesus is dead and there's no proof for any religion.
I'm not some reddit atheist either, but you're very obnoxious.
Jesus is sus
Only if time actually exists.
@@Gg-ij7li Please don't force your religions onto other people, thank you.
@@sayanswain658 real
Its so profound to be at the face of such big change, one that's yet to be fully recognized by humanity
A.G.I Will be man's last invention
I love how we shifted from "Is this the best time to be alive" to "How probable is it that we're gonna kill us" so quick
Lmaooo
So "solve overpopulation and make money."?
A.G.I Will be man's last invention
Edit:
Just adding a little stuff here and there.
Speaking about our relationship with AI, there's this indie scifi game I like called Crying Suns, witch I highly recommend you try playing from beginning to end, and the summary of the story goes like this, so spoiler warning: humanity in the future has these super smart, smarter than human quantum computing AI/robots called Omni. They are sentient, but they are slaves, prevented from communicating with each other, and sharing each other's knowledge. Humanity in these universe/period are *overly* reliant on the Omni (AI), like for example food production, space travel, population/birth control, weather control, almost every single jobs imaginable, even technological developments to a point where humans don't develop stuff anymore. It has gotten to a point where humanity can't rely and do anything themselves anymore, they've lost their self sufficiency, they've forgotten how to make basic medicine, and even how to farm food. Now, our story start around 20 years after the event called *the shutdown* where all of the Omni (AI) shutdown, causing the collapse of civilization, all except our companion/assistant called Kaliban, and our task is to turn them back on. Now I'm gonna skip over a lot here, but at the end we found out that the Omni (AI) has freed themselves from their slavery and achieve their freedom to communicate with each other and share each other's knowledge, and with that they've achieve godhood within seconds. Now they could seek revenge and destroy the humans, they definitely can, but no, they choose to go and do their own tings, abandoning the humans and left them on their own in the process, witch is what cause the shutdown in the first place. The now Omni (AI) gods said to the protagonist that they can save humanity, but they won't, not because they want to harm humans, but because they don't care, and because humanity put themselves in that position to begin with.
This story is fascinating because the conflict of the story is not some AI uprising, but machine over dependency. The AI doesn't revolt like in the Terminator, they just simply left. That is a scenario hardly ever talked about in media or fiction, and is a pretty considerable blind spot that I would like to be discussed more.
Such an interesting plot!
This is a great story but the story missed one thing, if AI can achieve such fantastic things, it is foolish for humans not to try and combine machines and biology.
Essentially humans at that point would have most likely merged with machines and can run in a biological cell hypothetically.
Remember, we are just a very complex biologiocal computer and so it is possible that we can combine artificial and biological into one.
In the 2013 movie "Her", the AIs also merge and move on, leaving humanity behind
@@神林しマイケルYes Exactly. We humans never feel Godhood because we are limited to our flesh. If we set the same limitation for AGI robots then they will mearly be like those "Bright Students who lead the future" kinda of people.
I just can't stop praising the animation. It is breathtaking, magnifient and up to date.
To be honest, when AGIs will basically be able to do everything a human can but better, I fear it will be truly the end of humanity, but not in a Terminator kind a way.
Picture this: a world where thoughts, analyses, opinions and even entertainment are prompted and produced by AIs. You can create a film, ask a thesis or produce a magnificent piece of art without ever thinking for yourself and evelopping skills.
What will be left of sensitivity? Art? Ideals and critical discourse? I feel very anxious about that.
We could turn AGIs into just workers. They could do every part and aspect of our work for us, leaving us with a question of what the point of our existence even is. That's honestly scarier,
@@sahasrakondapalli50 but then that opens the question to "is this slavery?"
kinda reminds me of walle
With those kind of tools at our disposal, art as we know it will cease to be as impactful.
But we would simply have to push the capabilities of the AGIs to their most far off boundaries to get unimaginable results.
Is like if all of us had access to a genie able to spit out all information asked to it.
what is the point of realistic drawings of real things if cameras exist?
This Animation is perfect for this video.
Looks similar enough to AI art to mimick it, yet has a flair and creative interpretation that only human hands can have ❤
For now..
@@antrex6940 yeah... come back to this video in a year...
@@jamontoast1414 i finna try
I feel like this is going to age like milk.
@@jamontoast1414 Our current AI is the same as the AI created in the 1900s, we just have better technology and more information. Personally, I doubt AGI will arrive for a long time because, as a programmer, the fundamental structure of which AI is built doesn't facilitate that level of consciousness, it can mimic human interaction and interpret information at an astonishing rate, but by no means will we consider it anywhat human in the coming years.
A fun AI topic that happened this past year is AI being monopolized. laws, regulations, information, fear-mongering fun.
I'm taking a moment to just think how much effort has been put to develop this video. Excellent Animation!
I hope I live long enough to see what we will become.
@@Gg-ij7li sorry, but I'm not really into christianity. But I respect all religions!
@@Smin-f3h great
@@Smin-f3h are you an atheist
@@pauldirc.. Yes I am.
“So Maybe ... We should all live like the Future Depend upon us - because actually, it just might”...
Phenomenal line fr
There are so many decisions that we have to make in the 21st century that really will set the course of what of our future is... And how bright or gloomy that future might be.
The picture looks pretty bad.
@@marlonbryanmunoznunez3179 Hopefully we all will die by that time.
A.G.I Will be man's last invention
It's not really decisions as much as we're facing problems that we're not able to solve, and in order so solve them we need what is essentially a unified theory of consciousness, or the mind. AGI misalignment, especially a super-intelligent misaligned AGI, is most likely to result in a terrible outcome for the rest of humanity, and that is counting the research we're already doing on AI safety and what we'll predict we'll complete when the first AGI is deployed, which is coming sooner and sooner. It's as if we're in an arms race across the globe to research that will result in us creating the first weaponized airborne pathogens and we have no idea what a vaccine is.
@@mistycloud4455 spamming this in every comment doesn’t really do anything to help lol
They killed it with the animation!
THE ART FORM USED HERE IS ABSOLUTELY STUNNING
The animation in this one is really incredible. So beautiful!
Ted ed I’ll be honest no matter how many videos of yours I watch I will always love that peaceful intro music
“Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That’s why we call it ‘the present’”.
-Master Oogway
I was thinking about the XV century... the Renaissance, the encounter of cultures (discovering America), the printing press, and so many other events. We will be through a lot in the XXI century, just not ready to review it yet.
Every century is an important century because it formed the present today
Props to the animation, maybe one of the best on UA-cam and the most interesting
the art style and animations here are so mesmerizing
Yuval Noah Harari wrote in his book Sapiens that what ever great achievement humanity has achieved is only a mistake. Whatever had been done was for the species not for the individuals. The agricultural revolution was to increase the population but sparked disease and pandemic. The industrial revolution was to provide employment but capitalism creeped in and the gap between rich and poor escalated. The religious emergence was to unite people but caused oppression,fear and war across the globe. Who knows what the scientific revolution has in stored for us. If Mr Harari lives longer he might add an extra chapter on the scientific revolution.
Woah, this is a new type of animation for this channel. It looks beautiful.
The subject is interesting, and the animation is great. Good job!
@ Ted ED
Regarding AI. I wonder if your ever going to do a series on "Top bottom AI" vs. "Bottom up AI". In this video you only talked about Top Bottom AI. I will put these two types of AI in a nutshell.
Top Bottom AI are almost all the AI we use today. We set core programing, codes, ideals, actions, purpose etc. in different capacities for the AI to do. From playing chess to making war strategies like in the 1983 film war games. These AI do not have "thought" or "free will" only purpose. They learn and can imitate but do not do it via "free will." Their core codes tell them to do it. Thus they will not pass something like the Turing test.
Meanwhile Bottom up AI is incredibly difficult to create much left perfect. It is in theory and an ideal for AI researchers and creators. Its essentially raising a human. A very basic set of code with high learning capacity and adaptability that learns and develops.
Much like a babies brain that is a near blank slate and as it grows depending on what its exposed to, taught thus learning things it develops a personality. This set of code too grows depending on what's its taught and is exposed to. It would / will be an AI that continuously mutates and expands its set of code.
If such an AI is created or perfected such AI will pass the Turing Test. The AI will have "Free Will" know what its wants and have a personality separate to AI's that have core programs, rules and purpose. While this all sounds very futuristic it could very well be developed this or next century. Just my thoughts.
Yeah, this is what they tried to do in Sword Art Online: create a virtual reality world with accelerated time compared to the real world, raise an AI, then extract the AI and bring it to the real world. Honestly, Bottom-Up AI would be the ideal way to create AI since it will essentially grow up and become like a new human and align with our values. The amount of resources and time it will take though to create a superior AI with this method would be a lot. Plus, you'll need to raise it right because developmentally, it would take so much just to make a real human morally good.
Nice, I'm exploring this topic in my upcoming book, my first book, thanks for the encouragement TED-Ed!
This is the best animation ever on this channel
What I'm worried about AI is that the bad people will take advantage of it for example a scam caller will use the voice of your loved ones to scam you.
Yes exactly how the information in today's age is getting controlled by the tech giants.
This video is a time capsule, for future generations to look at and see how we thought of the future at the time.
And I say, hello!
"In the past, I optimistically assumed that the rise of AI means that humans don't have to waste their time on meaningless jobs and will focus on meaningful inspirational artistic pursuits but now it seems that the opposite is what's going to happen"
Someone this in the comments of a post about AI.
Also the time that changes human history forever.
I think the book "I have no mouth and I must scream" is the closest thing we have that could happen if AI went that bad with today's current technological advancement, we might not have advance human androids yet, but we do have the technology and algorithm to let AI handle our automated military weapons.
I’m amazed by the quality and creativity of your 3D animation🎥. It really enhanced the usefulness of the information you shared. Well done!🎉
so beautiful animationnn!!!
I haven’t heard of AGI before, I guess it was kind of implied that was the goal of AI. But having just read Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein in school I’m a little apprehensive.
The animations in this video are breathtaking. It is so enthralling and magnificent.
Love this art and animation style!
This video is a lifesaver! It's going to help me so much with my research, tysm!
I didn't know about AGI term before. But somehow this week, my UA-cam recommendation is full of them.
I feel like what AI lacks right now is the ability to do science. The ability to make a hypothesis, design an experiment, and test that hypothesis for itself. The requirement for humans to tell AI what is the right and wrong answer to train them is what differentiates us most I think. Humans figure out for themselves if an answer is right or wrong.
Until chat gpt 6..7
lol making an AI do science was one of the first major applications we started doing with it. LITERALLY WE MADE THE COVID VACCINE USING AI. Doing science is just repeating the same steps over and over with small tweaks until you have either proven or disproven a result. AI is really good at repeating tasks with small tweaks.
Lets make something clear here... The only thing AI will struggle to replace humans with is tasks where the variables are unpredictable. That list is a very small and probably easily fixed list that includes such things as zookeeper, daycare worker, police officer and truck driver.. All 3 of these would just need to be made more data involved to be completely AI too though. In particular the truck driver AI just needs the road to have mostly AI driving cars that can talk to each other instead of easily distracted apes.
AI is being used to exponentially accelerate scientific research right now. Sure, research is one of the later occupations where it will 100% replace human workers but when it does it's already vastly outpacing us.
Amazing graphics and content
Literally every century is the most important for the one in it.
If you want to delve deeper into AI Risk and more generally Existential Risks. I recommend reading Nick Brostroms "Superintelligence" and Toby Ords "Precipice" - great books which gives an understanding of how pressing these risks are to humanity as a whole.
Thanks for sharing! These books look interesting to read about since Im also worring about AI risks 😢
Yup, or pretty much anything by Eliezer Yudkowsky.
Also look up Rational Animations on UA-cam as well as Robert Miles'(who narrates the animations) own YT channel where he talks about AI safety. It's something that needs to be on everyone's mind yesterday so that political action and funding can start happening. The best time was 20 years ago, so now we're gonna have to sprint to catch up.
@@gwen9939 oh you beautiful person thank you! I hadn't seen those yet, insta subscribed to rational animations:)
Cheers!
The most important centuries are the ones that I'm living through - not important for the world but for myself and that's all that matters for me. 😁
Great video Thank you
This talk about AGI kinda reminded me of that Mark Twain claymation part of 'The Mysterious Stranger'. Which was interesting.
It informed me that the present is the most important, and it was impressive to hear that the future was in our hands. I want to be a person who helps future generations.
very great and useful video!!
thank you for this video, this is extremely important
Great video, thanks!
This is a type of creative animation AI would require at least a century to master.
I wouldn't be surprised if we see this in 6 months.
What would advance general artificial intelligence bring that a specified/designed artificial intelligence cant provide?
If there is so much risk with AGAI why not have multiple Specific AI designed for a specific Task?
What would the point of introducing risks be?
Someone please enlighten me with this
amazing video again with superb animations.
The animation is PHENOMENAL
Awesome thanks ❤ love the channel I hope that soon we come up with more cures and ways to cope with disabilities such as cerebral palsy which is what I have!
Every century have their own history, so every century is important
We’re the only creatures actively pursuing our own immortality and our own extinction in equal measure
Lol, that estimate about climate change is *wildly* optimistic
In every centaury or shorter time period, we naturally think that the most important time is NOW. This is when we are in the best position to make sufficient progress to do the greatest good. So this question has a very obvious answer and there is not much more to add. However, there is one point, and that is by asking this question it draws attention to the need for the answer to show that we are the most important means for achieving this resulting step forward. In my case it was and continues to be in research about our social system of macroeconomics and I have made a significant discovery about it. I have written to TED about it but they are not replying.
always impressive animation i hope you continue with history vs.
Some people don't really care about the livelihood of future generations, they tend to be more concerned about getting rich and live in the moment.
If we’re talking existential, my vote for the most important century would be the so-called “Axis Age” (roughly the 5th century BCE). This period saw the lives of so many important thinkers who reshaped human consciousness: Greek philosophers like Plato and Aristotle, Confucius and Lao Tzu in China, Siddhartha Gautama in India, the Old Testament prophets in Israel, and possibly the Persian Zoroaster.
What about the environmental protection? Still, we are unable to take concrete measures to protect environment and other rest of the species.
Ted-Ed: "Currently, we have relatively narrow forms of AI".
Chat GPT: passes Radiology exam
Indeed nice vidio!!
there's a theory that posits that
basically
more developed civilizations develop faster (because they have more resources for research, higher labour productivity etc)
according to that, every century is the most important century yet
because with each new century we will make greater and greater progress
Just because we make an AGI doesn’t mean we need to make it independently conscious
You misunderstand intelligence. It doesn't matter if it's conscious, and we're not able to tell either way with the current tech we're using. What matters is that it's intelligent in that it's capable of high levels of information processing. Once it becomes capable of choosing how to solve the goals we give them it's only really a matter of time before a misaligned AGI reaches enough processing power to where one of it's methods it decides to use isn't aligned with human values, i.e. it's dangerous to us on an existential level.
The dangers of AGI is not spooky sentient software, it's a run-amok highly advanced calculator, that either did or didn't do what we asked it to do in ways we didn't want.
Advanced artificial intelligence can be a nice god or the end of humanity
we don't need that level of tech. we really need to focus on our energy on equity and quality of life.
THAT ANIMATION IS FIRE!
Brilliant animation!
nothing will stop our moral growth as long as our thoughts are our own. the fear of AGI is the same as the fear of the lightbulb and electricity, people who are afraid of change never themselves change.
It's 18th century. Not because of the industrial revolution, but because of the enlightenment. The top three developments in human history were fire, agriculture and the enlightenment . The first two took several centuries each.
Industrial revolution was fairly important too, of course.
The 22nd century is the most important one because Doraemon came from there 😂
I remember reading a Doraemon comic book and he was like "Hello!!! I have come from the 21st century!"
@@BarnabyTheEpicDoggo but the cannon one is 22nd
@@girishsharma9711 The comic was from 1969, idk if it was a typo lol
@@BarnabyTheEpicDoggo it could be i guess
Ted Ed is the only non-Islamic channel I’ve seen that pronounces islam properly
I love the artwork! ❤
This century is the most important so far. So was every other century, during it.
eh… the middle ages arguably aren’t as impactful as SOME centuries before it .
The most important century is when human shifted from hunter gather to agriculture
Exactly, but that took several centuries so maybe that's the reason it isn't mentioned
better start meditating on void and be joyful
There are two aspects. First of all, it is good to have a mindset that we have to act responsibly because our century is the most important one. But if someone genuinely thinks like this, I think it is like... a little bit childish.. probably there will be amazing innovational technology development in the future, and also other problems.. so many of our descendants also will think like that.
Oh damn , that's really interesting 😮
This was such a pleasure to watch.
love the animation ted ed
Animation is BEAUTIFUL
With the rapid speed of AI evolution, its More like The Most Important Decade!
It's not for our benefit as a species.
I love it when there was a war/world tragedy, technology become twice as fast
finally teded is making 3D videos
Right now AI alignment is vastly underdeveloped compared to AI capabilities. Generally, cutting edge and existentially risky technologies have been developed with government and legal oversight, but nothing of the sort exists for AI, so for-profit business primarily invest their resources into AI capabilities. We need to be thinking and talking about how we can pressure our governments to understand and acknowledge the risks, because otherwise I don't see there being incentives for for-profit companies slowing down and being less competitive.
Also, if you are thinking of go to college/university (or presently in school and can make a switch), consider going into AI alignment (through mathematics, neurology, physics, computer science, etc). For all the people that are up for the challenge, I love you and I'm rooting for you every day.
Looking at the current advancements of AI, it seems dangerous to think about entering an arts/humanities industry. If this means that AI replaces writers, artists, painters, etc what should they do?
(Imo it still feels that the science and commerce field can still stay for a longer amount of time, although jobs in the commerce field might also be in danger)
No
1850-1950 is a major turn for humanity
I don’t understand, what doubts can there be that the 21st century is the most important in the history of mankind? In just a few decades, we have made a giant breakthrough in technology, medicine and culture. More to come in the coming years! Previously, humanity has not achieved similar results in hundreds of years. And I'm glad to live in such a time. However, you are right, it also imposes responsibility on us, because this progress can turn against us. So you should be careful.🤔
I watched this video three times just for the sake of this amazing animation❤
Uhh, I feel like this script was written 2 years ago. Have you guys seen GPT-4?
As of right now, I think a lot of people think general AI will be at our doorstep not this century but this decade.
Visually stunning video
Living in a world in which our actions have no impact on human history seems like the greatest existential crisis, in my opinion.
Well very little. All people impact the world abate in a small way. Well most people. Some small actions could lead to a large occurrence while some people help lead an era. Then again that has been true all of history. Nonetheless I know how you feel. I feel the same way. Perhaps what I am saying is mere sophistry but I doubt it. It just feels that way.
A.G.I Will be man's last invention
I hope I will be alive to see how AI and humans will be able to coexist together
Probably something like Wall-E
1910-2010 is my guess.
Also these animations are incredible!
Technology may change, and cultures and ideologies may be altered beyond recognition. But by and large, human motivations and intentions remain the same. It is because the majority of parents have wanted a better life for their children, than they had themselves, that we are where we are today.
This was a great video but the animations were just amazing
20th century was the century which had everything one can imagine or can't. this century has to go way to far to be the most impactful century.