added by Alex Wittenberg ยท updated 2y ago
AI & the Future of Civilization
- My theory about these things is to make a language which panders not to the computers but to the humans, and try to make a language where the language is, as much as possible, able to take what the humans think of and convert it into some form that the computers can understand.
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Alex Wittenberg added 3y ago
- We can think about all sorts of systems as effectively doing computations, whether it's a brain, whether it's a cloud responding to the different thermal environment that it finds itself in. We can ask ourselves, are our brains doing vastly more sophisticated computations than happens in these fluids in the atmosphere?
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Alex Wittenberg added 3y ago
- What will happen, more to the point, is that there will be an AI that knows our history, and knows that on this menu, you're probably going to want to order this, or you're talking to this person, you should talk to them about this. I've looked at your interests, I know something about their interests, these are the common interests that you have, ... See more
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Alex Wittenberg added 3y ago
- I've been trying to build this knowledge-based language, where it's intended for communication between humans and machines in a way where humans can read it and machines can understand it too, where we're incorporating a lot of the existing knowledge of the world into the language in the same way that in human natural language we are constantly inc... See more
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Alex Wittenberg added 3y ago