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How will AI change the world?
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In the coming years, artificial intelligence
is probably going to change your life, and likely the entire world.
But people have a hard time agreeing on exactly how.
The following are excerpts from a World Economic Forum interview
where renowned computer science professor and AI expert Stuart Russell
helps separate the sense from the nonsense.
There’s a big difference between asking a human to do something
and giving that as the objective to an AI system.
When you ask a human to get you a cup of coffee,
you don’t mean this should be their life’s mission,
and nothing else in the universe matters.
Even if they have to kill everybody else in Starbucks
to get you the coffee before it closes— they should do that.
No, that’s not what you mean.
All the other things that we mutually care about,
they should factor into your behavior as well.
And the problem with the way we build AI systems now
is we give them a fixed objective.
The algorithms require us to specify everything in the objective.
And if you say, can we fix the acidification of the oceans?
Yeah, you could have a catalytic reaction that does that extremely efficiently,
but it consumes a quarter of the oxygen in the atmosphere,
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