What happens when our computers get smarter than we are? | Nick Bostrom

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Published 2015-04-27
Artificial intelligence is getting smarter by leaps and bounds — within this century, research suggests, a computer AI could be as "smart" as a human being. And then, says Nick Bostrom, it will overtake us: "Machine intelligence is the last invention that humanity will ever need to make." A philosopher and technologist, Bostrom asks us to think hard about the world we're building right now, driven by thinking machines. Will our smart machines help to preserve humanity and our values — or will they have values of their own?

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All Comments (21)
  • @Mormodes
    We can't even agree on what our own values are, let alone teach the ones we have to an AI.
  • @JustinHalford
    This talk aged particularly well. Alignment and safety are critical, yet we are forging ahead without proper pacing due to corporate rivalry and geopolitics.
  • @Lhaffinatu
    Honestly after studying the issue of AI super intelligence, I'm very glad there are a significant number of researchers out there thinking about how to keep it safe.
  • @mitchal54321
    This dude is one of the smartest humans to ever live. Creator of the Simulation hypothesis, wrote superintelligence which many scientists derive ideas from. This guy should be listened to.
  • @retterkl
    Guys the solution to this is simple. Let Microsoft build the AI. If it ever becomes too powerful it'll just bluescreen.
  • @TheBobsan
    This is, like, the most important question for human existence... why do I feel like people are being too calm about this?
  • @gajabalaji
    Human curiosity is creating something powerful than human. This creation cannot be reversed. It's scary.
  • @luigipati3815
    ''When you create more possibilities, you also create more possibilities for things to go wrong'' -Stephen Hawking
  • @OwenIverson
    it's an absolutely amazing time to be alive. if you don't think so, you need to read more about the cutting edge of human progress. it's insane.
  • @siddbastard
    One of the shorts from Animatrix was quickly showing the Machines way of making a human laugh, another cry, etc ... It's still one of the most haunting thing i ever saw.
  • @brindlebriar
    Our values = acquire and maintain control over the other humans, because they're dangerous. Great; let's teach it to the AI.
  • @cristian0523
    You can see he was expecting laughs at 11:43 , poor guy. Very good talk.
  • @cgsrtkzsytriul
    I’ve thought that superintelligent machines would be the ultimate test of Socrates’s idea about the origin of morality: that it is knowledge itself.
  • @crazyguy2050
    What a guy respects, sweating, nervousness and knows what he talks about. This is what true people with passion for what they do look like!
  • @ryanfranz6715
    I’d want to hear him give a similar talk today, given the recent and rapidly improving (“runaway” even beginning to be a relevant description) advances in AI
  • @EpicMRPancake
    Wisdom is the bucket of water to chuck on the fire that is intelligence when it can potentially get out of hand.
  • @greenacid2506
    The last invention that humanity will ever need to make...A cold heartless genius!
  • @leptoon
    This video could be part of an archive 1,000 years from now called "The Great Minds That Saved Our Planet".
  • @rastafaraganj
    "teach something to learn, and one day it will learn to think for itself." -DNA