Singularity
Max Tegmark, Stuart Russell, Ray Kurzweil and other debated AI and the Singularity at this year's Nobel Prize event in Gothenburg.
During the annual Nobel Prize Week, held each December, the current year’s Nobel Prize laureates participate in a whirlwind of events and activities leading up to the actual handing out of the awards. Since 2012, the roster of activities has expanded to include a new event, the Nobel Week Dialog, a day of lectures and panel discussions.
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The goal of the event is to bring together a select group of the world’s leading thinkers for a series of thought provoking sessions and working groups on a topical science theme. With this event the Nobel Institutions aim to deepen the dialog between the scientific community and society on issues connected with the Nobel Prize and of importance for the world.At this year's discussion Ray Kurzweil, Stuart Russell, Max Tegmark and others discussed the Singularity at the event. See the video below for more.
"Of the three new information technologies that are going to transform the world, biotechnology--reprogramming the ancient software in our bodies, nanotechnology--reprogramming materials and artificial intelligence, the one that's actually an existential risk already is biotechnology," says Kurzweil. He cites how the Asilomar guidelines have been used to mitigate the risk associated with the technology.
"To be able to welcome [new technology] and feel very optimistic and excited about the future, we need to win this race between the growing power of the technology of AI and the growing wisdom of humanity to manage it."
Russell suggests that artificial intelligence now faces a similar containment problem that nuclear technology has. His research has covered many areas of artificial intelligence, with a particular focus on machine learning, probabilistic modeling and inference, theoretical foundations of rationality, and planning under uncertainty. He also works for the United Nations, developing a new global seismic monitoring system for the nuclear-test-ban treaty. His current concerns include the threat of autonomous weapons and the long-term future of artificial intelligence and its relation to humanity.Tegmark describes how the newer technologies do not allow us the luxury of learning from our mistakes. "I feel that to be able to welcome [new technology] and feel very optimistic and excited about the future, we need to win this race between the growing power of the technology of AI and the growing wisdom of humanity to manage it," he says.
Tegmark is an MIT physics professor with more than two hundred technical papers and has featured in dozens of science documentaries. His work with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey shared the first prize in Science magazine’s “Breakthrough of the Year: 2003.” He is the president of the Future of Life Institute, which recently launched a $10M research program for keeping Artificial Intelligence beneficial.
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