Facing Superintelligence (with Ben Goertzel)
About this episode
On this episode, Ben Goertzel joins me to discuss what distinguishes the current AI boom from previous ones, important but overlooked AI research, simplicity versus complexity in the first AGI, the feasibility of alignment, benchmarks and economic impact, potential bottlenecks to superintelligence, and what humanity should do moving forward.
Timestamps:
00:00:00 Preview and intro
00:01:59 Thinking about AGI in the 1970s
00:07:28 What's different about this AI boom?
00:16:10 Former taboos about AGI
00:19:53 AI research worth revisiting
00:35:53 Will the first AGI be simple?
00:48:49 Is alignment achievable?
01:02:40 Benchmarks and economic impact
01:15:23 Bottlenecks to superintelligence
01:23:09 What should we do?
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