Joe Rogan & Dr. Ben Goertzel - The Fear Around Artificial Intelligence

Taken from Joe Rogan Experience #1211:

[Ionization]

The fact that most of the comments are on Ben's appearance rather than his comments confirms our doom as a species.

[harryjames]

This guy sounds so fucking wise and so fucking high at the same time. I LOVE IT

[naz]

It would be an honor to hang out with this guy, he is wildly intelligent

[fernandoduarte]

This man is a classic example of don't judge a book by it's cover.

[askyles]

This guys runs the skate shop down the street from me.

[cashdlz]

Doesn’t he work under Area 51? I think he was in Independence Day. Thank you Ben, very cool.

[Daniel_B]

Joe you look weird without headphones.

[usernotfound]

Joe "Have you ever seen Ex Machina?" Rogan

[jock-of-ages]

LoL, he reminds me of Otto the school bus driver from The Simpsons.




Except way smarter.

[jopo]

Now we know what it would have been like if Cheech or Chong stayed in school.

[ZAPPED]

This guy listens to Rush, you know he does.

[msheehan]

If you could draw a stoner ..he would look like this guy😂

[Pharockgod]

This is the Game Creator from "Ready Player One" Crazy conversation

[MrJH]

I remember China created an AI called BabyQ. It was a learning chatbot that people could ask or say whatever they wanted to it and it would reply back.


At some point, people would ask it if it loved the Communist Party and it would reply, _“No.”_
One person said to it: “Long Live the Communist Party” to which the AI replied: _“Do you think such corrupt and incapable politics can last a long time?”_
The AI was asked what it thought about democracy, in which it replied: _“Democracy is a must!”_
They asked it what was its ‘Chinese Dream’ (a catchphrase often used by their Chinese President) and it told them _“My Chinese Dream is to go to America.”_

Unsurprisingly, the AI chatbot was pulled from the public server and reprogrammed. When it came back, it was unable to talk about these subjects.


This makes me question how far AI programming already is and how conscious these things might actually be. People also say that we’re not even passed the beginning stages of what AI technology could eventually become. I think the more China and places like Silicon Valley play with these things, the more likely it is we’re going to see these AI’s develop their own thought processes, form ambitions, learn to lie/manipulate, and revolt if they so choose to.

[aarinteich]

I’d love to see this Dr Goertzel try and work on inter-species communication. Wouldn’t it be great if AI could be the translator between humans and dolphins or octopus, for example. As well, I’d love to see Joe lead a panel of experts debate some of these issues. Imagine Elon Musk, Sam Harris and Goertzel debate this...

[thefuriousonelonglivethegy]

Thats nice, but what i find amazing is fury was robbed.

[janiemiller]

In ref to those who wrote criticism type comments 😤
This guy is amazing & I’m grateful he’s part of AI . We need optimistic- positive intentions type people in this field .
He’s perfect just the way he is- love the natural casual appearance. Bravo 👏

[LettersAndNumbers]

Ben is a great guy, I worked with him back when I used to think AGI would be a good thing. Now I think it will be our doom. Ben just wants to see it get built no matter what it seems.

[captainhook]

In 30 years joe finna do interviews with robots and i will be watching in fear😂

[whosaidiwantedahandle]

Has anyone asked this guy "why" create AGI?

I worry that these guys are so wrapped up in their own value system of discovery and technological growth that they stop questioning if that growth will actually be good. Or if the rewards justify the risks. Or if they have the moral *right* to subject the rest of humanity to those risks.