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Meta's chief AI scientist says a provably safe AI is as impossible as a provably safe turbojet.
We build turbojets anyway. What replaces the proof is a system that cannot be jailbroken by construction, and the reason is not a safety patch.
Yann LeCun is Meta's chief AI scientist and a Turing Award winner.
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We cover: why the search for provable AI safety is the wrong goal, what an objective-driven system does that a language model cannot, why human law is the closest thing we have to a working guardrail, and why the paperclip scenario does not frighten him.
Yann LeCun: The Doomers Are Solving The Wrong Problem
Those systems cannot be jailbroken. Not because we patched them, but by construction.
00:00 The paperclip argument runs out of iron
00:50 Why a safe AI proof cannot exist
02:36 The system that cannot be jailbroken
04:04 We already built guardrails for humans
06:47 What the printing press did first
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Meta's chief AI scientist says a provably safe AI is as impossible as a provably safe turbojet.
We build turbojets anyway. What replaces the proof is a system that cannot be jailbroken by construction, and the reason is not a safety patch.
Yann LeCun is Meta's chief AI scientist and a Turing Award winner.
Please join my mailing list here 👉 briankeating.com/yt to win a meteorite 💥
We cover: why the search for provable AI safety is the wrong goal, what an objective-driven system does that a language model cannot, why human law is the closest thing we have to a working guardrail, and why the paperclip scenario does not frighten him.
Yann LeCun: The Doomers Are Solving The Wrong Problem
Those systems cannot be jailbroken. Not because we patched them, but by construction.
00:00 The paperclip argument runs out of iron
00:50 Why a safe AI proof cannot exist
02:36 The system that cannot be jailbroken
04:04 We already built guardrails for humans
06:47 What the printing press did first
This is a clip. Watch the full conversation with Yann LeCun here: youtube.com/watch?v=u7e0YUcZYbE&sub_confirmation=1
———
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Losing the Nobel Prize (memoir): amzn.to/2sa5UpA
Think Like a Nobel Prize Winner: https://a.co/d/03ezQFu
Focus Like a Nobel Prize Winner: https://a.co/d/hi50U9U
Galileo's Dialogue (first-ever audiobook): https://a.co/d/iZPi9Un
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