Max Tegmark: Artificial Intelligence will IMPROVE your Life!

#MaxTegmark #MIT #ArtificialIntelligence Max Tegmark is a physicist, cosmologist, and artificial intelligence - machine learning researcher. He is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the scientific director of the Foundational Questions Institute. He has been my mentor and friend for a LONG time :-)

A native of Stockholm, Tegmark left Sweden in 1990 after receiving his B.Sc. in Physics from the Royal Institute of Technology (& a B.A. in Economics from the Stockholm School of Economics). His first academic venture beyond Scandinavia brought him to California, where he studied physics at the University of California, Berkeley, earning his PhD. in 1994.

Tegmark is an author on more than 200 technical papers, and has been featured in dozens of science documentaries. He has received numerous awards for his research, including a Packard Fellowship (2001-06), Cottrell Scholar Award, an NSF Career grant. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. His work with the SDSS collaboration on galaxy clustering shared the first prize in Science magazine’s “Breakthrough of the Year: 2003.”

His book "LIFE 3.0" was an instant New York Times Best Seller and one of Mark Cuban and Barack Obama's favorite books of 2017. Life 3.0 asks the question: "How will Artificial Intelligence affect crime, war, justice, jobs, society and our very sense of being human?" The rise of AI has the potential to transform our future more than any other technology—and there’s nobody better qualified or situated to explore that future than Max Tegmark.

How can we grow our prosperity through automation without leaving people lacking income or purpose? What career advice should we give today’s kids? How can we make future AI systems more robust, so that they do what we want without crashing, malfunctioning or getting hacked? Should we fear an arms race in lethal autonomous weapons? Will machines eventually outsmart us at all tasks, replacing humans on the job market and perhaps altogether? Will AI help life flourish like never before or give us more power than we can handle?

00:00:00 Intro
00:02:09 Disagreement with Noam Chomsky and the challenge of the Imitation Game
00:04:16 Will AI exceed human intelligence?
00:07:04 Should we fear AI? Are we being too passive?
00:09:02 Should we trust AI? What we should worry about?
00:11:21 Were you born too early to make use of AI? Could AI avert war?
00:12:45 AI may have a democratizing impact.
00:17:55 The "Improve The News" experiment
00:26:19 What do you think about exponential change? Will tech solve humanity's problems?
00:30:31 What is your ethical will?

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[rezasahand]

Dear Dr. Keating ! You deserve the noblest prize because of this great YouTube channel ! And please bring Mr. Eric more ! Also Frank wilzcek show was awesome . And, thank you for spreading knowledge, my dear com-planet !

[OlexMelnyk]

The quality of Mr. Keatings guests is nothing short of astounding! Thank you for the inspiring work!

[cryptolicious]

@tegmark is so cool. one of my favorites!

[marzx]

Wanted to comment and say thank you. YT algo brought me here from Lex and Eric W. You and lex and Eric have this great Ven Diagram of my interests going.

Thank you for making this happen, enabling and democratizing access to these special minds.

[nbridge]

Very interesting, I have read Max's the Mathematical Universe which is an excellent thought provoking read.
Thanks for this interview Brian, very excited about Carlo Rovelli interview too.
Keep up the good work.

[missshroom]

I enjoy listening to both of you guys very much! You both seem very kind and I liked the brotherly love at the end. Made me smile

[tigeovhe]

I’ll save the video and watch it later. Too busy trying to organize my taxes for my accountant right now to watch live😫 Thank you so much for having so many wonderful guests!!

[CoryDavisPAg]

Such a great program Dr Brian Keating offers. Max Tegmark has always been an inspiration in my life and one of the best science communicators. I read both his books and was glued to the pages from beginning to end. Thank you so much for this video. So great!!! Love you guys.

[coderi]

Have been looking forward to this one!

[snackentity]

these 2 quark blobs are among my favorite quark blobs

[buzzsaw]

200 likes only? Criminal! Max is always excellent value.

[nunomaroco]

All the best from Portugal, Carlo Rovelli great mind too.

[Mrpsblobsoflowendmung]

Max is truly amazing, I love the improve the news idea. I’m loving it and it should be implemented 😆 wonderful simply idea.

[xavierteague]

Hello, I just happened to accidentally stumble upon this. I’m glad I did.

[michaelqiu]

misspelled a timestamp.The 4th one should be "...are we being too passive', not "to passive"

[martin]

And he came up with the idea of the fast fourier transform array

[cyberista]

Arthur C Clarke envisioned a simple hierarchy : . Not that one leads to the next but, viewed as a vertical stack, (ideally) Knowledge 'knows' how best to organise and use Information; and Wisdom knows how to organise and best use knowledge. He mentioned this in an interview once.

[rajeevgangal]

It's true that information and possibly computation constitute intelligence if not awareness. But to reach human like level of processing material science will need to move towards more biological materials not just microcircuits and microchips. At that point neuronal artificial circuits will mostly highly resemble as also improve on biological material.

[nicki]

22:10 "Hey you know I think the earth is going around the sun." - Galileo
1600's Facebook: Fact Checked! by The Pope "No."

[martin]

Galileo was wrong, not all objects (all things being equal regarding air resistance), fall towards the Earth with the same acceleration, if the Moon fell towards the Earth it's Gravity would also "attract" the Earth towards it, now keep halving the mass of the Moon, the same would apply but halved each time, this shows logically that the mass of an object does affect the rate at which it "falls" towards the Earth, the problem with most demonstrations is that the masses used are so infinitesimal compared to that of the Earth, that the differences between then are negligible.