Revolution is changing that. You have warned me not to get too close. It does look a little bit hazardous. This robot dog hasnt been programmed to walk. Its learning by itself. Its called reinforcement learning. What weve done here is, weve given it this task to try to kind of stand up and move forward. When it does well, one of the Computer Scientists gives it the digital equivalent of a pat on the head. I can see its doing better and better. Its strong. I try and put that in its way, and its stronger than i am. Yeah. Have you trained it to make a beeline for me . Uhhuh. I feel like im battling the ai here, and the als winning. In just a few hours, its moving around by itself, even coping with the unexpected. Im really feeling an instinct to help it, but that is, of course, not good. You know, its learning, and maybe it looks a bit mean sometimes when we push it around, but, really, werejust trying to see what it can handle and help it learn new behaviours. This robot dog is the brain
one of the signatories was yoshua bengio. the existential risk that people talk about really is about what happens if we create machines that are smarter than us and have their own goals that are not aligned with our needs and could potentially harm us, just like a new species on earth that would be smarter than us might do. but the godfathers of ai don t always agree. professor lecun didn t sign the statement. every powerful technology can be used for good or bad. the existence of bad actors is not new. i i but very often the technology that l enables bad actors to do bad things is the same one that actually - enables to protect against them. a very simple example that exists today - there are people who are trying to use social networks, - like facebook and instagram and others, to disseminate i disinformation to corrupt the political process, -
computers recognise patterns and mimic the human brain. there is still a very- large gap that we observe between the capability of ai systems and what we observe in animals and humans. and, basically, the quest of my life has been to bridge this gap, - trying to figure out, l what are we missing? what type of intelligence do| humans and animal exhibit? and there s good news. we re making a lot of progress, and it s accelerating. they ve become known as the godfathers of ai. ai is about building machines that are intelligent. now, what does it mean to be intelligent? people may disagree. but the way i and many others like to define it is, the ability to learn, to understand and to take decisions. the godfathers laid the foundations for machines that could learn. what would power the next step
ethos of how al s made, which is, collect it all and figure it out later. if machines are learning from what s on the internet, material that s harmful needs to be filtered out, and much of that work still needs the scrutiny and judgment of humans. well, there are certainly countries where this type of outsourced labour is most commonly located. china, malaysia, kenya are some examples. but, indeed, it s a growing market for people to be, really, doing this extremely difficult, extremely traumatising work. so, in a sense, you know, it maps to a global north global south dynamic of extraction and exploitation of labour for these systems.
machines are getting smarter. ..much smarter. there s no reason an artificial brain couldn t be as capable as a biological brain. where will the artificial intelligence revolution take us? now we re thinking about building tools that could be very, very powerful and very dangerous on their own. the first thing that we thought when we got this working was, like, this is fantastic. it s working! and then, like, oh, my god. this is working. so, should we fear what that future might bring? i think the biggest danger is not what machines will do to people, but what people will do with machines to other people. machines have always needed humans to tell them what to do but the artificial intelligence revolution is changing that. you have warned me