Undoubtedly AI is making unlimited knowledge available instantly but will humanity be wise enough to benefit and suppress our evolutionary traits - perhaps with AI help ?
It seems like the AI race is always talked about as being between the US and China. Do you think there are other countries we aren't talking about that could lead the world in AI in a few years time?
A big problem I see with AI, is that while it may provide solutions, it doesn't provide understanding. For example, while AI has provided proofs for long standing math problems, it hasn't done a great job providing new understanding. In other words, the reason a lot of these math problems were interesting was because it was expected the necessary understanding to solve them would likely open many new areas to explore. A brute force solution doesn't provide that. That seems to be a more general problem with AI solutions. (I would argue this is a bigger problem with technology: humanity is found in the friction of solving daily problems, remove all the friction and you also remove the humanity.)
One very specific problem area for AI is the increasing quality with which deepfakes can be created. This isn't limited to your usual 'bad actors' from North Korea - Microsoft recently applied to patent a technology that can change the words coming out of a live speaker's mouth (along with their mouth contours to make it look believable). People are going to be scammed in their millions - the elderly already fall prey to far less sophisticated schemes before they get FaceTimed by their 'kids' crying and begging for money in an emergency. We will soon be living in a reality where your default assumption should be that whatever you're shown is FALSE until unequivocally proven true and nothing except for in-person conversations will be verifiable. Any thoughts on how to combat this? The usual 'AI model embedding a tag it's AI content' doesn't apply to those wanting to cause havoc.
Elon assumes AI will bring widespread job annihilations and recommends a high universal income for all Americans. Do you agree or disagree with this perspective and solution?
Undoubtedly AI is making unlimited knowledge available instantly but will humanity be wise enough to benefit and suppress our evolutionary traits - perhaps with AI help ?
It seems like the AI race is always talked about as being between the US and China. Do you think there are other countries we aren't talking about that could lead the world in AI in a few years time?
A big problem I see with AI, is that while it may provide solutions, it doesn't provide understanding. For example, while AI has provided proofs for long standing math problems, it hasn't done a great job providing new understanding. In other words, the reason a lot of these math problems were interesting was because it was expected the necessary understanding to solve them would likely open many new areas to explore. A brute force solution doesn't provide that. That seems to be a more general problem with AI solutions. (I would argue this is a bigger problem with technology: humanity is found in the friction of solving daily problems, remove all the friction and you also remove the humanity.)
Will AI make real world relationships even more important as AI will never have the human touch as it is not human?
One very specific problem area for AI is the increasing quality with which deepfakes can be created. This isn't limited to your usual 'bad actors' from North Korea - Microsoft recently applied to patent a technology that can change the words coming out of a live speaker's mouth (along with their mouth contours to make it look believable). People are going to be scammed in their millions - the elderly already fall prey to far less sophisticated schemes before they get FaceTimed by their 'kids' crying and begging for money in an emergency. We will soon be living in a reality where your default assumption should be that whatever you're shown is FALSE until unequivocally proven true and nothing except for in-person conversations will be verifiable. Any thoughts on how to combat this? The usual 'AI model embedding a tag it's AI content' doesn't apply to those wanting to cause havoc.
Elon assumes AI will bring widespread job annihilations and recommends a high universal income for all Americans. Do you agree or disagree with this perspective and solution?