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Welcome to Eye on AI, the podcast that explores the latest developments, challenges, and opportunities in the world of artificial intelligence. In this episode, we sit down with Connor Leahy, an AI researcher and co-founder of EleutherAI, to discuss the darker side of AI.

Connor shares his insights on the current negative trajectory of AI, the challenges of keeping superintelligence in a sandbox, and the potential negative implications of large language models such as GPT4. He also discusses the problem of releasing AI to the public and the need for regulatory intervention to ensure alignment with human values.

Throughout the podcast, Connor highlights the work of Conjecture, a project focused on advancing alignment in AI, and shares his perspectives on the stages of research and development of this critical issue.

If you’re interested in understanding the ethical and social implications of AI and the efforts to ensure alignment with human values, this podcast is for you. So join us as we delve into the darker side of AI with Connor Leahy on Eye on AI.

(00:00) Preview

(00:48) Connor Leahy’s background with EleutherAI & Conjecture  

(03:05) Large language models applications with EleutherAI

(06:51) The current negative trajectory of AI 

(08:46) How difficult is keeping super intelligence in a sandbox?

(12:35) How AutoGPT uses ChatGPT to run autonomously 

(15:15) How GPT4 can be used out of context & negatively 

(19:30) How OpenAI gives access to nefarious activities 

(26:39) The problem with the race for AGI 

(28:51) The goal of Conjecture and advancing alignment 

(31:04) The problem with releasing AI to the public 

(33:35) FTC complaint & government intervention in AI 

(38:13) Technical implementation to fix the alignment issue 

(44:34) How CoEm is fixing the alignment issue  

(53:30) Stages of research and development of Conjecture

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Many of us have heard about pseudoscience, which is a system of theories that are wrongly considered to be scientific. But have you ever heard of pseudomathematics? How about mathematical crankery? If you want to read more about pseudomathematics, visit me at www.MathScienceHistory.com.

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What are we talking about when we are talking about doing science? How is doing science different from the other forms that we call knowledge or discovery? This is the philosophical task at hand covered by Karl Popper in his work Conjectures and Refutations. I have already done several episodes on Popper's book The Open Society And Its Enemies; but I thought it would be fruitful to talk a little as well about some of the philosophical underpinnings of the scientific method as they strike me as similar to the concept of fallibility which is so crucial in understanding liberalism.

In this episode I discuss Popper's notions on:

- The problem of demarcation in science

- The difference between asking "How do you know that?" vs "How can be best eliminate errors?"

- Criticizing our own theories if we can - Critical Rationalism

- Verificationism actually a weakness of a theory, not a strength of it.

- Scientific theories are risky - and can be disproved by certain observations

- Irrefutability a vice

- Dogmatic thinking in line with verification thinking and critical thinking in line with scientific thinking

- Using philosophy to solve problems outside of philosophy - its about problem solving not just internal gazing

I hope you enjoy another episode from the unperishable Karl Popper.

In episode 4 of season 7 of 5 Minute Biographies, we take a brief look at the life of a man who set the foundation for modern optics and produced groundbreaking work on planetary motion coming up with fundemental laws of motion along the way - Johannes Kepler. 

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The Beginning of Infinity, Explanations That Transform the World, David Deutsch,

A bold and all-embracing exploration of the nature and progress of knowledge from one of today's great thinkers. 

Throughout history, mankind has struggled to understand life's mysteries, from the mundane to the seemingly miraculous.

Our guest is a multiple award-winning pioneer in the field of quantum computation and argues that explanations have a fundamental place in the universe. They have unlimited scope and power to cause change, and the quest to improve them is the basic regulating principle not only of science but of all successful human endeavour.

This stream of ever improving explanations has infinite reach. We are subject only to the laws of physics, and they impose no upper boundary to what we can eventually understand, control, and achieve.

He applies that worldview to a wide range of issues and unsolved problems, from creativity and free will to the origin and future of the human species.

We welcome David Deutsch, Fellow of the Royal Society, a pioneer in quantum computing, visiting Professor of physics at the Centre for Quantum Computation at Oxford University, multiple TED Talker, optimist and author of The Beginning of Infinity,  Explanations That Transform the World.

We discuss:

• What David calls good explanations.
• Error as unavoidable in the growth of knowledge.
• Fallibilism
• Education
• Creativity
• Artificial Intelligence
• The misconception that knowledge needs authority to be genuine or reliable
• All scientific theories are testable conjectures
• Every explanation begins with conjecture
• The growth of knowledge consists of correcting misconceptions in our theories
• The Principle of Mediocrity
• The Spaceship Earth metaphor
• We touch very lightly on the Multiverse

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We’ve got a new name, but it’s an, old old world. On the inaugural episode of the newly-renamed Unbuttoned History, we discuss the indigenous peoples of Africa, Asia, and Europe. So light a fire, put on a robe and get casually sexy with Unbuttoned History. Unbutton it.