Artificial general intelligence (AGI)

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Daniel Tedesco

Data Lead, Google

Revisiting AGI

An AI that exhibits intelligence like a human would:

  • Scope of knowledge
  • Reasoning across domains
  • Social skills
  • Creative thinking
  • Other cognitive competencies (vision, language)
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Immense pros

  • Productivity
  • Research progress
  • Engineering solutions
  • Companionship and wisdom

Image of a beautiful future city

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Severe cons

  • Negative economic disruption
  • Malicious use
  • Value alignment problems
  • Existential catastrophe

Dangerous-looking robot

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The safety debate

AGI can empower

Image of a modern nuclear power plant at Kalinin, Russia

AGI can have negative consequences

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Controlling AGI outcomes

Requirements for aligning AGI and human values:

  • Clear rules and expectations
  • Constructive feedback

$$ $$

  1. Hard constraints
  2. Alignment strategies
  3. Government intervention
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Hard constraints

  1. Boxing restricts access to the wider world
  2. Interruptibility adds a stop or off switch

Image of a big red button with an "Emergency power off" sign next to it

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Alignment strategies

  • Iterative development
  • Constitutional AI
  • Multi-stakeholder engagement

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1 Dave Gray
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Government intervention

 

  • Beneficial regulations
    • Safety regulations
    • Rules for testing and oversight
    • Transparency standards
  • International collaboration

CEOs of various AI companies meeting with UK PM Rishi Sunak in 2023-

CEOs of various AI companies meeting with UK PM Rishi Sunak

1 UK Prime Minister
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Let's practice!

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