Here is a video summary of some highlights from AI Impacts research over the past years, from the GoCAS Existential Risk workshop in Göteborg in September. Thanks to the folks there for recording it.
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The Biggest Technological Leaps
Over thousands of years, humans became better at producing explosions. A weight of explosive that would have blown up a tree stump in the year 800 could have blown up more than three tree stumps in …
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AI and the Big Nuclear Discontinuity
As we’ve discussed before, the advent of nuclear weapons was a striking technological discontinuity in the effectiveness of explosives. In 1940, no one had ever made an explosive twice as effective as TNT. By 1945 the best …
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Were nuclear weapons cost-effective explosives?
Nuclear weapons were radically more powerful per pound than any previous bomb. Their appearance was a massive discontinuity in the long-run path of explosive progress, that we have lately discussed. But why do we measure energy …
Interesting subject matter and great video. Audio could be a bit better to be honest. Meditating on the future of AI implementation is always interesting
Artificial Intelligence is all about creating and developing machines that act, behave, react and work like human beings themselves. These machines are designed in such a brilliant manner that they are capable of performing activities like Speech Recognition, Learning, Planning, Problem Solving etc.
https://www.merrchant.com/daily/3/what-is-artificial-intelligence/