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385: AI Snake Oil
Manage episode 441427012 series 2533159
Sayash Kapoor (Princeton) discusses the incoherence of precise p(doom) predictions and the pervasiveness of AI “snake oil.” Check out his and Arvind Narayanan’s new book, AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can’t, and How to Tell the Difference.
Topics include:
- What’s a prediction, really?
- p(doom): your guess is as good as anyone’s
- Freakishly chaotic creatures (us, that is)
- AI can’t predict the impact of AI
- Gaming AI with invisible ink
- Life is luck—let’s act like it
- Superintelligence (us, that is)
- The bitter lesson
- AI danger: sweat the small stuff
Links:
AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can’t, and How to Tell the Difference
AI Existential Risk Probabilities Are Too Unreliable to Inform Policy
413 episodes
Manage episode 441427012 series 2533159
Sayash Kapoor (Princeton) discusses the incoherence of precise p(doom) predictions and the pervasiveness of AI “snake oil.” Check out his and Arvind Narayanan’s new book, AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can’t, and How to Tell the Difference.
Topics include:
- What’s a prediction, really?
- p(doom): your guess is as good as anyone’s
- Freakishly chaotic creatures (us, that is)
- AI can’t predict the impact of AI
- Gaming AI with invisible ink
- Life is luck—let’s act like it
- Superintelligence (us, that is)
- The bitter lesson
- AI danger: sweat the small stuff
Links:
AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can’t, and How to Tell the Difference
AI Existential Risk Probabilities Are Too Unreliable to Inform Policy
413 episodes
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