Comments by "Dazzer1234567" (@Dazzer1234567) on "Lex Fridman" channel.

  1. I've heard all these arguments many times before, but Nick is still one of my favorite people to listen to .............
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  2. Great interview....... you need to always put a low cut filter on the vocal tracks, like 18dB per octave at around 80 hz. Because there's a lot of sub bass plosives coming from the mics. And i hear lots of other sub bass rumbles coming from the building and from Michael banging on the table!........ But yeah, i do happen to be listening in a mastering studio LOL!
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  3. The first real AGI won't be like a secretary or a bot that can call a restaurant, it will be like a 2 or 3 year old child that can convince you that it has the intelligence and learning capacity of a real  2 or 3 year old child. Anyone who has a lot of experience with children of this age knows that children sometimes say things that make absolutely no sense, leaving you scratching your head. Then you realize that they've conflated two unconnected things, and you laugh about it. This is probably a necessary condition of human learning, searching out the valid connections. So it will also be with the first AGIs......... they'll also make these childlike mistakes. But they'll also be able to recognize an elephant after seeing 50 pictures of elephants without needing to see a data set of 100,000 elephant pictures. These will be the first really convincing AGIs, and from there they'll move up the intelligence scale of children, to adults, and beyond. So the first real AGIs will be useless to us, except for applications like children's toys which make you scratch your head and laugh!
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  4. ....when a guy who's worth 18 billion tells you what money is, you don't argue!
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  5. Steven Cowley https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMxOvuSMAug
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  6. Great interview!.... By the way, don't put tbe guest in front of a large window, the camera will expose for the window and you get your guest in silhouette!..... Or manually expose the camera to the guest...
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  7. Imagine this: You decide to bring a new peanut butter on the market. Using machine learning and big data you tweak the ingredients to create without doubt the best tasting peanut butter ever created. After a couple of years you have the number one selling peanut butter. High fives and much happiness at the company. Not wanting to rest on your laurels, you keep using the latest AI techniques to further improve the taste. Some time later you notice something strange. The sales keep increasing, far beyond the levels of the previous top seller. You do some market research and find out that people are now consuming enormous amounts of peanut butter. They're having for breakfast, lunch and dinner and are also snacking on it in between. In short, they're becoming addicted to the peanut butter. This brings up some moral dilemmas (or perhaps not) at the company. On the one hand, it's great that you're selling a lot of peanut butter. But how much is too much for a person? You're not using any illegal ingredients, it's just just that you've managed to "hack" people, using AI, to consume huge amounts......... thoughts?
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  8.  @chabot4587  I don't think Youtube is trying to control people for any evil master plan, but the decisions they make are purely driven by economics and the bottom line. I used to be a fan of Google and to some extent Facebook, but years ago i thought they took a sinister direction. For example, what is the benefit to the user that a new film starts automatically after the film they chose ends? There is no benefit. How good does search need to be on Google? So good that the person searching barely needs to think anymore? Who benefits from that? I think their "do no evil" slogan can now safely be replaced with "do stuff for maximum profit". How big and rich do Google and Facebook need to be? How many markets do they need to dominate? How much is enough? At what point do they draw the line in sand and put people before profit? They never will, because they know the competition won't draw that line. I don't understand how these smart people like this guy or Yann LeCun can do the jobs they're doing, then go home and look their family in the eye while knowing that they're performing some reckless experiment on humanity and still have a good night's sleep...........
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  9. More than a 100 years?!!!............. no way, 20, 30 tops..............
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  10. 23:35...... "No, I'm not going to answer your question".
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  11. A question: what would be harder to build, a simulator (Nick style) or an experience machine? Not in terms of resources but in terms of the source code. My feeling is that it's easier to build the simulator, because you only need to define the physics of your simulator, and then create one "consciousness" in it. After that, you can just make copies of that original consciousness, add in some randomness, and set the simulation running. Whereas with the experience machine, you need exponentially less resources, but the source code is much more difficult to write! ........ thoughts?
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  12. hmmmmmmm............. frustrating politically correct answer from her regarding the question about building of a whole brain. Although she may consider it science fiction and not something that she wants or needs to do, it's undeniable that something like an artificial brain that had the complexity and compute power of a real brain would have absurdly high economic value. Therefore, if it can be done, it will be done. Perhaps not in America, but then in China, Russia or elsewhere. So to just poo-poo and laugh off the idea may serve her career well, but i don't think history will look back so kindly on this sort of attitude. Just my humble 2 cents.
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  13. That "questions for Stalin" bit at 1:31:44 : imagine it's Joe Pesci in a Scorsese film...... he's a mafia dude, about to "whack" another mafia guy, and he's asking him some last questions about why he betrayed the Family haha .........
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  14.  @TheReferrer72  Hubris perhaps, but until now we know of only one route to AGI. Until these other routes you speak of have been demonstrated, i'll place my money on the child model as an important benchmark!
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  15. 39:00, Nick argues that consciousness is emergent .........
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  16. Music was longer before recorded music?..... Utter nonsense, think about folk and popular songs........ They existed back into antiquity of course....music didn't start with live concerts, it began in around the home.... Before recorded music, houses had pianos and other instruments.... And singers...EDM started in the 2000s?!.....more BS, it started in the late 80s.....this guy should stick to coding, forget trying to play the musicologist...
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  17. Very interesting podcast, keep up the great work!
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