“Avoiding the Turing Trap” — at the inaugural Stanford Digital Economy Lab gathering today:
• Humanoid robot company CEO Scott Phoenix of Vicarious (shared with his permission): “Our goal is to build billions of robots, to usher in an era of infinite abundance. Infinite abundance has a corollary: there are no premium products. You see that with digital goods today; Elon uses the same phone as the rest of us.”
“We will scale physical labor with the cost of electricity, just as we currently scale computing with the cost of electricity.”
• AI polymath executive: “By 2050, we will solve bias in the models. We can use GANs to normalize data sets to be representative of the population. But we won’t be able to prove it. With complexity, AI may not be possible to be understood.”
“We want Western values to win.”
“Cyberwars of the future might last 3-5 milliseconds. This will not allow for human decision making.”
“Physicists need AI and climate models need AI when solving the equations becomes too complex (Navier Stokes equations in this case). AI will also improve fusion and synthetic biology. AI will help us approach the hard problems in science.”
“We wrote an AI policy report for the government. They were the customers. But nobody in the government understood what we were talking about. The government is in the position of constantly being surprised. The U.S. model is that regulation lags innovation, which is better than the European model of trying to regulate before there is innovation. But we have a talent problem in the government.”
–> Today’s agenda: https://www.digeconevents.com/agenda
–> An interesting AI issue of Daedalus just dropped:
https://www.amacad.org/daedalus/ai-society
• Essay on “Avoiding the Turing Trap”, shifting the focus from replicating human intelligence (e.g., Turing Test) to enhancing and extended our capabilities: https://digitaleconomy.stanford.edu/news/the-turing-trap-the-promise-peril-of-human-like-artificial-intelligence/
• Make sure to check out the AI-generated replies to philosophical questions in the afterward: https://www.amacad.org/publication/afterword-some-illustrations
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