AI Alignment & AGI Fire Alarm - Connor Leahy

This week Dr. Tim Scarfe, Alex Stenlake and Yannic Kilcher speak with AGI and AI alignment specialist Connor Leahy a machine learning engineer from Aleph Alpha and founder of EleutherAI. Connor believes that AI alignment is philosophy with a deadline and that we are on the precipice, the stakes are astronomical. AI is important, and it will go wrong by default. Connor thinks that the singularity or intelligence explosion is near. Connor says that AGI is like climate change but worse, even harder problems, even shorter deadline and even worse consequences for the future. These problems are hard, and nobody knows what to do about them. 00:00:00 Introduction to AI alignment and AGI fire alarm  00:15:16 Main Show Intro  00:18:38 Different schools of thought on AI safety  00:24:03 What is intelligence?  00:25:48 AI Alignment  00:27:39 Humans dont have a coherent utility function  00:28:13 Newcomb's paradox and advanced decision problems  00:34:01 Incentives and behavioural economics  00:37:19 Prisoner's dilemma  00:40:24 Ayn Rand and game theory in politics and business  00:44:04 Instrumental convergence and orthogonality thesis  00:46:14 Utility functions and the Stop button problem  00:55:24 AI corrigibality - self alignment  00:56:16 Decision theory and stability / wireheading / robust delegation  00:59:30 Stop button problem  01:00:40 Making the world a better place  01:03:43 Is intelligence a search problem?  01:04:39 Mesa optimisation / humans are misaligned AI  01:06:04 Inner vs outer alignment / faulty reward functions  01:07:31 Large corporations are intelligent and have no stop function  01:10:21 Dutch booking / what is rationality / decision theory  01:16:32 Understanding very powerful AIs  01:18:03 Kolmogorov complexity  01:19:52 GPT-3 - is it intelligent, are humans even intelligent?  01:28:40 Scaling hypothesis  01:29:30 Connor thought DL was dead in 2017  01:37:54 Why is GPT-3 as intelligent as a human  01:44:43 Jeff Hawkins on intelligence as compression and the great lookup table  01:50:28 AI ethics related to AI alignment?  01:53:26 Interpretability  01:56:27 Regulation  01:57:54 Intelligence explosion  Discord: https://discord.com/invite/vtRgjbM EleutherAI: https://www.eleuther.ai Twitter: https://twitter.com/npcollapse LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/connor-j-leahy/