Tag: ai
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99.99% Friendly AI isn’t good enough
One of the first articles from The AI Security and Safety Book is Max Tegmark’s Friendly Artificial Intelligence paper from 2014. The paper is wonderful, but its purpose is hard to understand. After reading it multiple times, I came to a core quote that made sense to me: To program a friendly AI, we need…
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Musk on AI safety before xAI in 2019
MUSK: I think there is a lot—a tremendous amount of investment—going on in AI. Where there’s a lack of investment is in AI safety. And there should be, in my view, a government agency that oversees anything related to AI to confirm that it does not represent a public safety risk. Just as there is…
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A dive into the many faces of manifolds
What are manifolds? I started down this rabbit hole because of Chris Colah’s excellent Neural Networks / Functional programming blog post: At their crudest, types in computer science are a way of embedding some kind of data in n bits. Similarly, representations in deep learning are a way to embed a data manifold in n…
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Self-driving cars should first replace amateur instead of professional drivers
Photo credit: cheers Prasad Kholkute Professional drivers, i.e. lorry, bus and taxi drivers are under threat from being replaced by computers. Whilst amateur drivers, all the rest of us, feel no pressure to stop. I want to lay out the reasons why this is backwards. Amateur drivers should be replaced, whilst professional drivers should have…
Ian Channing 