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Deadly Truth of General AI? - Computerphile

A Computerphile video in which Rob Miles warns against assuming a general AI will think like a human. He uses the thought experiment of a stamp-collecting AI to show how a goal-driven system could pursue its aim with dangerous results.

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Why HN readers recommended it

Often pointed to as an accessible first introduction to AI safety and why a superintelligent AI could be dangerous.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel
Computerphile
Topic
ai safety
Format
explainer
Level
general
HN recommenders in dataset
3
HN mentions in dataset
7
Recommendation years in dataset
2016–2024

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From the original HN conversations

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  • > exponential leap forward A recent(-ish) Computerphile video has a good overview of the AI-self-improvement problem. [LINK] I recommend watching the previous video first, which introduces the problem of strong-AI rapidly finding solutions (especially with poorly-specified questions) that may not be in humanity's best interest. …

    pdkl95 on Hacker News · 2016-03
    In Why AlphaGo Is Such a Big Deal

  • There's a great Computerphile video from 2015 that introduced me to the idea of AI safety awhile ago. It seems like some good context to this article: [VIDEO]

    johncs on Hacker News · 2022-12
    In Perhaps It Is a Bad Thing That the Leading AI Companies Cannot Control Their AIs

  • But the concerns about AI taking over the world are valid and important; even if they sound silly at first, there is some very solid reasoning behind it. They’re big matrices, yes, but they’re Turing-complete which means they can theoretically do any computational task See …

    circuit10 on Hacker News · 2023-04
    In Stability AI Launches the First of Its StableLM Suite of Language Models

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