General AI Won't Want You To Fix its Code - Computerphile

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Published 2017-02-28

Part 1 of a Series on AI Safety Research with Rob Miles. Rob heads away from his 'Killer Stamp Collector' example to find a more concrete example of the problem.

Sneak Peak at Part 2: • AI "Stop Button" Problem - Computerphile

More about Rob Miles & AI Safety: bit.ly/Rob_Miles_YouTube

Thanks to Nottingham Hackspace for providing the filming location: bit.ly/notthack

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All Comments (21)

@TS6815 6 years ago

"Nobody's truly happy, you'll never be happy or accomplish your goals." Wow, computerphile cutting deep
@flensborg82 7 years ago

"But the only important thing is stamps" literally made me laugh out loud. This was a great video.
@miketothe2ndpwr 7 years ago

"being given a new utility function will rate very low on your current utility function" That got me laughing hard.
@ioncasu1993 7 years ago

"You can't archieve something if you're destroyed". Much deep. wow.
@dbsirius 7 years ago

1:55 Evil laughter, then hammering sounds....
@seblund 7 years ago

i love this guy
@wheeleybobs 7 years ago

"Stop what you're doing and do something else" ... NO .... "sudo stop what you're doing and do something else" ... OK
@BlueFan99 7 years ago

wow this is a very interesting topic
@darkmater4tm 7 years ago

"The most important thing in the world is stamps. If you change me not to care about stamps, I won't collect enough stamps" I understand my fellow humans so much better after hearing this. Having a closed mind is very rational, as it turns out.
@GetawayFilms 7 years ago

Someone got excited and started making things in the background...
@algee2005 3 years ago

after watching a bunch of these, i must say rob is so satisfying to listen to. i can literally feel the knowledge being tetris fed into my brain.
@Zerepzerreitug 7 years ago

I'm always happy when there's a new Computerphile video with Rob Miles :D I love general purpose AI talk. Especially when it makes me shiver XD
@jameslay6505 1 year ago

Man, these videos are so important now. 6 years ago, I thought something like chatGPT was decades away.
@centurybug 7 years ago

I love how the background is just filled with sounds of destroying things and laughter :P
@cubicinfinity2 5 years ago

I used to think that the AIs depicted in science fiction were way off base from reality, but the more I've learned about AI the closer I realize sci-fi has always been. I don't know how far it was correct, but it is much closer.
@isuckatsoldering6554 7 years ago

The editing here is brilliant in the way that you return to his "original" statement once you're equipped to understand it.
@warhammer2162 7 years ago

i could listen to Rob Miles' conversations about AI for hours.
@valeriogalieni2840 2 years ago

Robert's videos about AGIs are fascinating, enlightening, and scary af
@msurai6054 7 years ago

Extremely interesting topic. I'm looking forward to the rest of the series.
@dreammfyre 7 years ago

"Preventing yourself to be destroyed..." ruh roh