Debunking The AI Reset: Alien Mind Fear, Chat GPT, Future of AI & Slow Productivity | Cal Newport

Cal Newport talks about defusing A.I. panic on Episode 307 of the Deep Questions podcast.

One of the simmering concerns surrounding the current AI revolution is the fear that we might accidentally create an “alien mind” smarter than we expected. In this episode, Cal puts on his Computer Scientist hat and directly addresses this potential by sketching his emerging concept of intentional artificial intelligence (or, iAI for short). He then answers tech-themed questions from listeners and reacts to an article that many, many different people sent to him last week.

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0:00 Defusing AI Panic
41:55 Will A.I. agents spread misinformation on a large scale?
46:42 Is lack of good measurement and evaluation for A.I. systems a major problem?
52:04 Is the development of A.I. the biggest thing to happen in technology since the internet?
56:23 How do I balance a 30 day declutter with my overall technology use?
1:02:54 How do I convince my team that prioritizing quality over quantity will help them get promotions?
1:08:17 Distributed trust models and social media
1:18:09 Using Deep Work and Slow Productivity to engineer a better work situation
1:27:10 Employees fired for using “mouse jigglers”

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About Cal Newport:
Cal Newport is a computer science professor at Georgetown University. In addition to his academic research, he writes about the intersection of digital technology and culture. Cal's particularly interested in our struggle to deploy these tools in ways that support instead of subvert the things we care about in both our personal and professional lives.

Cal is a New York Times bestselling author of seven books, including, most recently, A World Without Email, Digital Minimalism, and Deep Work. He's also the creator of The Time-Block Planner.

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[fuzzylogic]

This was right on time and on point. Thanks for the detailed explanation Cal.

[FellowHuman]

Cal, you are the man. Thanks for the lesson.

[goodleshoes]

"an llm could never be a mind"
So what? Say we have a physical robot that has access to multi modal input and has multiple llms that act as agents prompting each other based on the input constantly coming from the camera, mic etc. it will be able to act and make decisions based on what input it gets. In what way would "not being a mind" matter when it's able to act on its own in this way?

[Mar-X]

I was waiting for this video a long time ago. Thank you!

[rootover]

Cal's favorite band is Deep Purple.

[guruprasadf]

Invite Eliezer Yudkowsky & Ramon Yampolskiy

[Reflektr]

Intelligence is an emergent phenomenon. It won't take long until someone gives recursive self-improvement to the higher layers.

[ptcosmos]

53:59 Look I bet this comment won't get pinned or like but if replied I'll do 10 push ups which won't happen I hope.

[kp]

Hi, isn't listening to a podcast the opposite of Slow productivity?:) I need a summary first!:)