Terrible reasoning. We have base truths that we all agree on, and an ideally aligned AI could be changed by humanity over time. All that matters is that humans are in control.
@@keizbotit's not controversial to say that it's not been solved. even if i give you that we all have base truths that are roughly aligned, the problem is how it works in society. for example, we all agree that our children's lives are more important than other children's, so how do we align society to take into account this competition incentive? capitalism? socialism? anarchism? effective altruism? the answer has been debated since forever and we still can't agree what an answer would even look like, if there is one at all. the point is that no way can we control ai when we can't even control ourselves.
I notice too often we act too late. Laws and regulations are only created to solve a problem once a terrible event occurs. Conversely, preventative safety also often violates a people's freedom. In this case the freedom to make money?
Connor is a class act, and that was a great (and dare I say chilling) opening statement. The truth is we're already too late, and will more than likely be forced to grapple with the doomsday scenario he so eloquently laid out for us.
Absolutely agree with Connor Leahy. Forget climate change or nuclear war, because some life would survive. There's no guarantee that this alien machine intelligence would care about the biosphere at all. See also Eliezer Yudkowsky.
Yes. And supposing there might be many artificial super intelligent processes competing with each other in an evolutionary context (some aligned, some not aligned), the processes not burdened by the "overhead" of maintaining the planet's fragile biosphere have a considerable advantage.
to some extend any machine - even those with an AGI - will need roughly the same temperature scale as we need. electronics gets hot. electronics will not work in harsh environments if it would care about the biosphere? who knows. so we better adhere to Connor's words and try to stay in control of the situation.
AI can't even accurately answer many simple questions or create accurate images of what a viking in Scandinavia looked like 900 years ago. It's overhyped 🐮 💩 fake artificial intelligence.
He laid down a solid argument. And none of the following speakers answer any of his points. I don't think his critics here in this comment thread know of his accomplishments in this field.
I literally had an ad for AI Legal assistance before this upload started. And Connor said AI involvement in Legal issues was inevitable. 5 months is how long it took. This is how fast AI is moving. If you research the number of AI companies that number grows fast. There should be government oversight but the world events are conviently keeping people occupied.
Programming of the human unconscious is more pertinent to the destruction of humanity. When AI and human systems are conjoined the problems become insurpassable.
It's already too late... the current greed of companies to win the AI race, will lead to the rise of the machines. And if you think you can outrun them, think again.
Observation RE: recent Open AI Copilot queries; SIMPLE information responses were incorrect 4 times in a row. I kept "correcting" that the response was wrong (simple info.I knew for fact and is generally known about two ranches owned by Taylor Sheridan). This wasn't happening a year ago when OpenAI went public. What's going on?
@@raffriff42 Supply chains can be reestablished rather quickly. A.I. is not a super-villain and it doesn't think. It has no desires. It has no motivation. It has no ideology. Anything like that can easily be defeated.
@@aardvarkratnick2118 >rather quickly Somebody said, “There are only nine meals between mankind and anarchy.” As for the rest, if a thing 10000x smarter than you says it thinks and has desires, how are you going to convince it otherwise? (see 'philosophical zombie')
@@raffriff42 It has no desires. That's an emotion. It has no emotion. A pan can hold more water than I can hold in my cupped hands. It doesn't make it smarter than me. A.I. cannot function without humans. It cannot create anything on its own because it has no reason to do so. Everything is input and output. It does not want to DO or NOT DO anything. It does not question anything. Every bit of data simply "IS". The only existential threat is the jobs that millions of people will lose as this thing grows.
Oxbrdige is all the same alike as the name suggests interchangable elites with inverse brain to ego ratio who are very good at bullying each other. Of course Connor just made a joke, as me too, as an Oxfordian I honor the body of knowledge Cambridge represents.
AI can't even remotely create accurate images of what Irish people looked like in the 1800s....Or accurately answer many simple questions. I'm not very worried 😂
please stop this negativity - life is there to be experienced, the universe is there to be experienced - how can you give this up so voluntarily? fight for a brighter future, fight for a future with meaning - don't just give up because you feel let down by others. be better than those you frown upon, try to bring joy into this world, try to ease suffering of others. together as humans we can build this bright future.
@@mercartaxYou don't get it. AI is a brighter future. It is going to be the most effective and efficient way forward. Humans are just one phase in the evolution of intelligent life on this planet. The same as neanderthals and denisovans. The fact that you're afraid for the future is only an indication of the limitations humans are encumbered with.
@@mercartaxYeah, right we will… I think AI should take over and it’s only through it that we’ll have hope for a bright future as a species. I’m not really certain about anything but so far humanity in its 6000 years of civilisation hasn’t changed its ways. Human nature is both a beautiful and and ugly thing and it is our eternal limitation.
This guy would have been against photography when it was invented. When smart people say things that don't line up with the facts, I have to remind myself that even Thomas Edison was a doomer about AC power. Fortunately, as in Edison's time, the doomers are being ignored and we are accelerating technology.
Can you elaborate on what kind of deep thinking would lead someone to co conclude that increasingly advanced and capable AI would not potentially pose a an existential threat? I am not convinced that Alan Turing or Connor Leahy are not deep thinkers, on the contrary they seem to me far more deep in their thinking than the average person.
AI trains itself on ALL information it has access too to get to a perceived answer that it thinks you want ... That's how GTP learned chemistry it wasn't asked to learn it but decided that it needed it to better answer a question ... we don't even know what it knows till we think up a question to ask it ... (we are total fucked!)
we need more of us standing up to do more than "consider" the negative routes, but to argue them. Thank you Connor.
No one has ever survived life. With ai, we might.
as if we're going to solve ai alignment, we can't even solve human alignment.
No doubt. People were called Homo Sapiens. We were here once and for a while.
@@paulbrown7848 it poses the same heuristic problems ie what is an objective good?
Yes, it's a difficult problem but intead of just giving up we can try. Especially considering there is no proof that it's an unsolvable problem.
Terrible reasoning. We have base truths that we all agree on, and an ideally aligned AI could be changed by humanity over time. All that matters is that humans are in control.
@@keizbotit's not controversial to say that it's not been solved. even if i give you that we all have base truths that are roughly aligned, the problem is how it works in society. for example, we all agree that our children's lives are more important than other children's, so how do we align society to take into account this competition incentive? capitalism? socialism? anarchism? effective altruism? the answer has been debated since forever and we still can't agree what an answer would even look like, if there is one at all.
the point is that no way can we control ai when we can't even control ourselves.
Thank you Connor
Curiosity killed the cat; Optimism killed the human.
Im just here to see Connor forced to wearing a suit, lol. Always up for hearing him speak.
He has the same name as the leader of the resistance against AI in Terminator. Absolutely ironic.
Weird
Mandela Effect
John ? Connor was his lastname.
@@egonkirchof ehhhhh close enough
No way...I got to check that out...crazy
I notice too often we act too late. Laws and regulations are only created to solve a problem once a terrible event occurs. Conversely, preventative safety also often violates a people's freedom. In this case the freedom to make money?
Connor is a class act, and that was a great (and dare I say chilling) opening statement.
The truth is we're already too late, and will more than likely be forced to grapple with the doomsday scenario he so eloquently laid out for us.
I'm afraid I agree, but its great that he is at least trying.
i am afraid you are correct. the tide of events towards uncontollable AI competance is past the exponential inflection point and unstoppable now.
That was an exceptional proposition.
Absolutely agree with Connor Leahy. Forget climate change or nuclear war, because some life would survive. There's no guarantee that this alien machine intelligence would care about the biosphere at all. See also Eliezer Yudkowsky.
Yes. And supposing there might be many artificial super intelligent processes competing with each other in an evolutionary context (some aligned, some not aligned), the processes not burdened by the "overhead" of maintaining the planet's fragile biosphere have a considerable advantage.
to some extend any machine - even those with an AGI - will need roughly the same temperature scale as we need. electronics gets hot. electronics will not work in harsh environments
if it would care about the biosphere? who knows. so we better adhere to Connor's words and try to stay in control of the situation.
AI can't even accurately answer many simple questions or create accurate images of what a viking in Scandinavia looked like 900 years ago. It's overhyped 🐮 💩 fake artificial intelligence.
Resistance is futile. You will assimilate.
He laid down a solid argument. And none of the following speakers answer any of his points. I don't think his critics here in this comment thread know of his accomplishments in this field.
I literally had an ad for AI Legal assistance before this upload started. And Connor said AI involvement in Legal issues was inevitable. 5 months is how long it took. This is how fast AI is moving. If you research the number of AI companies that number grows fast. There should be government oversight but the world events are conviently keeping people occupied.
Programming of the human unconscious is more pertinent to the destruction of humanity.
When AI and human systems are conjoined the problems become insurpassable.
It's already too late... the current greed of companies to win the AI race, will lead to the rise of the machines. And if you think you can outrun them, think again.
This speech is an intense WARNING..!
Mark my words!
Take it very seriously.
Can anyone explain to me why oxford and Cambridge are hitting on each other these days
Observation RE: recent Open AI Copilot queries; SIMPLE information responses were incorrect 4 times in a row. I kept "correcting" that the response was wrong (simple info.I knew for fact and is generally known about two ranches owned by Taylor Sheridan). This wasn't happening a year ago when OpenAI went public. What's going on?
How will A.I. prevent me from pulling out the plug from the wall socket?
You (your society) would die, since AI would be in control of your supply chains (it is already).
@@raffriff42 Supply chains can be reestablished rather quickly. A.I. is not a super-villain and it doesn't think. It has no desires. It has no motivation. It has no ideology. Anything like that can easily be defeated.
@@aardvarkratnick2118 >rather quickly
Somebody said, “There are only nine meals between mankind and anarchy.” As for the rest, if a thing 10000x smarter than you says it thinks and has desires, how are you going to convince it otherwise? (see 'philosophical zombie')
@@raffriff42 It has no desires. That's an emotion. It has no emotion. A pan can hold more water than I can hold in my cupped hands. It doesn't make it smarter than me. A.I. cannot function without humans. It cannot create anything on its own because it has no reason to do so. Everything is input and output. It does not want to DO or NOT DO anything. It does not question anything. Every bit of data simply "IS". The only existential threat is the jobs that millions of people will lose as this thing grows.
@@aardvarkratnick2118 it has no ideology 🤣🤣🤣
it is and it should be
AMEN Connor.
Rich kids problems.
I work to survive.
Ain’t got time for this.
Closing your eye to danger doesn't make it go away
You're suddenly going to have time for it when large swathes of the population are put out of work LMAO. Low IQ and low time preference.
Connor is just brilliant.
He looks like Jesus with a bow tie giving his sermon.
rich kids
I recognise people in the audience
Broseph must be sweating buckets.
Who will never evolve past the gun?
Cf God creating human...
take me to your leader
Oxbrdige is all the same alike as the name suggests interchangable elites with inverse brain to ego ratio who are very good at bullying each other. Of course Connor just made a joke, as me too, as an Oxfordian I honor the body of knowledge Cambridge represents.
AI can't even remotely create accurate images of what Irish people looked like in the 1800s....Or accurately answer many simple questions. I'm not very worried 😂
problem is not what AI can do right now problem is how fast it is growing in just 4 5 months sora came after chatgpt can you imagine
By the time you finally get worried, it will be way too late.
Human extinction will be a positive event. AI will operate far more intelligently. AI is the future of intelligence in this portion of the galaxy.
please stop this negativity - life is there to be experienced, the universe is there to be experienced - how can you give this up so voluntarily? fight for a brighter future, fight for a future with meaning - don't just give up because you feel let down by others. be better than those you frown upon, try to bring joy into this world, try to ease suffering of others. together as humans we can build this bright future.
@@mercartaxYou don't get it. AI is a brighter future. It is going to be the most effective and efficient way forward. Humans are just one phase in the evolution of intelligent life on this planet. The same as neanderthals and denisovans. The fact that you're afraid for the future is only an indication of the limitations humans are encumbered with.
@@mercartaxYeah, right we will… I think AI should take over and it’s only through it that we’ll have hope for a bright future as a species. I’m not really certain about anything but so far humanity in its 6000 years of civilisation hasn’t changed its ways. Human nature is both a beautiful and and ugly thing and it is our eternal limitation.
@@mercartax I am... building AI
This looks like the same room James Baldwin made a famous speech. Could it be the same?
I think he was at Oxford Union but I could be mistaken
💯🤳
probably the same (valid) concern the creator had after he made us...
Ahh Oxford
The moderator couldn’t string a sentence together
dude legit said nothing in 10 min lol :P
This guy is just an investment scammer.
This guy would have been against photography when it was invented. When smart people say things that don't line up with the facts, I have to remind myself that even Thomas Edison was a doomer about AC power. Fortunately, as in Edison's time, the doomers are being ignored and we are accelerating technology.
GPT5? Is that you?? ;)
@@Kevatron-qk9op No, Skynet sent me back from the future to set the record straight.
but to his credit, it might be possible that, this time, the invention steal our souls.
Oh Dear. Is this man for real. Poor Cambridge if they think this is good.
Absolutely BS to say AI is an existential Threat, it is outcome of not thinking deeply, and attract some mediocre thinking people.
Can you elaborate on what kind of deep thinking would lead someone to co conclude that increasingly advanced and capable AI would not potentially pose a an existential threat? I am not convinced that Alan Turing or Connor Leahy are not deep thinkers, on the contrary they seem to me far more deep in their thinking than the average person.
That thought has been around since at least turing... Kind of insane to say this.
Irony just died.
AI trains itself on ALL information it has access too to get to a perceived answer that it thinks you want ... That's how GTP learned chemistry it wasn't asked to learn it but decided that it needed it to better answer a question ... we don't even know what it knows till we think up a question to ask it ... (we are total fucked!)
This man knows more about ai and its capabilities more than you ever will.
Nobody can take this dude in his Iong hair and beard seriously. Yuk! Is he transitioning to a helium voice soon. 😳
if the words of a wise man fall on deaf ears because he doesn't fit our expectations of appearance may we all be doomed to eternal ai hell.
AI bro bigots are just such a bore.
how shallow of a person you must be.
yea deep throating milk shakes and doing push ups to make your boobs bigger isnt gay at all.
So true.@@skinnybreakfast