How AI was Stolen

CHAPTERS:

00:00 - How AI was Stolen
02:39 - A History of AI: God is a Logical Being
17:32 - A History of AI: The Impossible Totality of Knowledge
33:24 - The Learning Revolution
39:36 - What Are Neural Nets?
49:17 - OpenAI & ChatGPT
57:22 - The Scramble For Data
01:10:42 - Stolen Labour
01:23:37 - Stolen Libraries: The Mystery of 'Books2'
01:48:25 - Copyright & the Future of Creativity
02:00:49 - The End of Work & A Different AI Apocalypse
02:15:10 - The End of Humanity
02:29:27 - Or a New Age of Artificial Humanity
02:43:17 - Getting to the Future

Written & Presented by Lewis Waller
Edited by Paul Lupascu & Luis Moura

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[blackholemonkey]

In an age where hordes of channels are exporting their entire production pipeline to AI in order to deliver low brow, low quality, frankly insulting content to monetize people's desire for long form video essays, you stand out as an exceptional example of how this format should be used. I am in awe of the quality of every single aspect of your work, and I cannot imagine how hard you work to get this out in the time frame that you do. May your curiosity and strive for excellence long continue

[andytruss]

As someone who studies AI and is pretty invested in political discourse, this is by far the best analysis of AI as a societal phenomenon I’ve seen on YouTube. I particularly like that you’re genuinely charitable to the AI, its potential and its prior successes, without sacrificing your critique.

[mats]

Honestly, the best independent documentary channel on youtube

[AxelB]

Awesome work! Very well researched and done. This documentary deserves to be seen by many. You could easily compete with pieces that have millions of views. The Youtube algorithm has suggested the docu to me and I hope it will direct many more to this address.
One thought - maybe dividing the 3 hours into 3-4 parts would attract more people to watch. All the best.

[puffinjuice]

Reminds me of "If you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research"

[MrNojoke]

I just watched your 3-hour video "How AI was Stolen", and I'm thoroughly impressed. As someone with extensive experience in the tech industry and decades of public speaking, I can confidently say this is an excellent and comprehensive piece.
The content is well-researched and thoughtfully presented. What truly stands out is your ability to maintain audience engagement throughout such a lengthy video. Your masterful use of pitch, pace, and power, combined with effective body language and strategic questioning, keeps viewers invested from start to finish.
I particularly appreciated how you distributed interesting points throughout the video, preventing viewer fatigue. The discussion on "what's left for humans if machines can do everything better" was especially thought-provoking.
Your storytelling skills are top-notch, making complex AI concepts accessible and engaging, but maybe even more importantly, keeping us around till the end while you tell the story. I'm eager to explore more of you and your partners’ work.
Thank you for this outstanding contribution to AI discourse. Great job!

[gailcbull]

The problem isn’t AI in isolation. The problem is AI + current economic reality.

The corporate world lost its mind during the pandemic when the unemployment rate reached 30% because they couldn’t profit from it at that time. AI has made it possible for corporations to profit from unemployment. So if the unemployment rate rises to 60%, corporations simply won’t care. AI protects CEOs from the consequences of their own actions.

[Westofal]

Takes a lot of courage to make an Oppenheimer length video about AI.
Masterful.

[johngosland]

Unfucking believable achievement my dude.

Regardless of the monetary outcome: this video will age like wine. You ought to be deeply proud.

[TwentyNineJP]

Bellos and Montagu convincingly argues in their book "Who Owns This Sentence? A History of Copyrights and Wrongs" that copyright law was not created to protect copyright holders, but rather to explicitly limit their control over works to a short number of years and expand the public domain. It had nothing originally to do with rewards and incentives, and everything to do with stripping monopolies from, e.g., publishers

The printing press was a major driver for this, because publishers were claiming perpetual copyright over works they printed.

[joecage]

Holy shit. 3 fuckin hours? My boy is puttin in that work.

[padaricohora]

This was like an entire college module on LLMs compressed into 3hours, so much info and well rounded

[ryandury]

My guy is competing with Christopher Nolan for longest film

[noor]

Probably the best video about Data and AI. This is exactly why I stopped posting my hard work photography photos on websites to prevent companies from stealing them to feed their AI Engines. I understood this because I'm a Computer Engineer.

[chronoflect]

"The question is not what AI can do, but who it can do it for."

[alewiina]

I highly disagree with that sociologist (at 2:23:51 or so)… to me, knowing and understanding why lightning strikes, how hugs communicate, etc IS wondrous and I love knowing, it doesn’t take any of the awe away from me whatsoever. The natural world is incredible and it doesn’t lose its majesty just because you understand it.

Excellent video, mates. AI already made me uneasy and I wasn’t sure exactly why (besides the obvious theft issues) but this video does a great job explaining all kinds of things I both did and did not ever expect about the way AI works.

I am both terrified for and excited by the future… AI could be used for greatness, but until it’s legislated I view it as unsafe and chaotic, as well as obviously thieving.

[Albatrossamongus]

Only half way, but wow, this is absolute premium content and production. Thank you! Sharing widely.

[SalmanNeedsAJob]

Thank you for creating this. I listened to half of this on audio, and still feel I got the full experience. What a versatile piece of work!

[thelakeman]

Honestly as far as research publications are concerned, they deserve zero money for anything aside from hosting, and the salaries of their editors, it's not like scientists are paid much or anything for peer review either. Scientists don't get paid by journals to research, they do so with public or private grants, there's no rationale to justify them holding copyright when most scientists would prefer as many people read their paper for free. If a service like scihub is required for even most scientists and students to do research on the subject, and it's an open secret that everyone uses it especially in developing countries where many institutions with limited funding can't afford jacked up pricing of publishers, then the system is broken and needs restructuring. So unlike other copyright holders, a publisher like Elsevier has very little moral claim to any compensation from AI using their paywalled content. I'm also highly critical of the concept of copyright and IP laws in general, they're all instruments of monopoly with ever expanding scope given by judicial diktats, and have to be reined in to a large degree if not radically rethought. This doesn't mean I'm against AI companies profitting off of other's work giving fair compensation, but that shouldn't be an excuse to further strengthen IP laws to the detriment of all, and should instead come from some new legal mechanism.