Is AI Going to Take Over the World? with Daniel Hulme - a podcast by Chris Parker

from 2022-08-03T10:00:06

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Can understanding someone’s digital footprint really make it easier for it to predict what they’ll be doing using AI? Today’s guest is Daniel Hulme. Daniel has a PhD in Computational Complexity and works in the field of AI, applied technology, and ethics. He is the CEO and founder of Satalia, a Tedx speaker, and educator at Singularity University.

Show Notes:

[0:50] - Daniel has already been interested in how humans behave and describes how he got into AI.
[2:05] - AI gets grouped into technology but there are a lot of different types of AI.
[3:50] - The ultimate goal of AI is to have computers make decisions and learn from the decisions, but that’s not commonplace right now.
[5:31] - Someone’s digital footprint can be used to learn a lot about them.
[6:51] - The challenges that we are facing with AI are not ethical challenges, they are safety issues.
[8:29] - AI is super complex and is becoming more difficult to test.
[10:03] - AI’s learning isn’t usually the problem. It’s the framework put in place.
[11:36] - Machine learning is a generalization of the world which can create biases.
[14:26] - Building explainable systems is incredibly important.
[16:20] - Daniel gives an example of how AI can use data but why human decisions are still important.
[18:16] - It’s much more cost effective to have simple solutions than complex ones.
[20:35] - What is the effect of building a super intelligence? We don’t know. Daniel explains the singularities involved.
[21:45] - These technologies are replacing people in completing some tasks. This is arguably a good or bad thing, depending on how you think about it.
[23:47] - There are different safeguards against each of these singularities.
[24:56] - Daniel shares what he thinks will be the solution.
[28:07] - Who is going to make this “glorious future”?
[29:36] - As AI takes the roles of employees in some companies, Daniel believes it will balance out again.
[32:01] - There are jobs that may be impacted more than others.
[33:46] - Something else that Daniel thinks may happen is a new economic structure.
[35:12] - The highest cost for many organizations is human labor.
[36:42] - There’s a possible paradigm shift that will have to change the way we think about work and money.
[39:30] - Daniel is optimistic that we’re headed in the right direction.

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