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Host Baratunde Thurston and Anthropic co-founder Jared Kaplan delve into the foundations and aspirations of AI development, discussing Anthropic's mission to create safe and beneficial AI systems. Jared shares his early passion for science, his transition from theoretical physics to AI, and Anthropic's unique approach to AI alignment through 'Constitutional AI.' The episode also features an engaging interaction between Blair, the AI co-producer of the show, and Claude, the AI responsible for creating Blair. They discuss AI's ethics, roles, potential for creativity, and the balance of using AI to enhance human productivity while maintaining human values and agency. Jared emphasizes the importance of society's active participation in addressing the evolving role and control of advanced AI systems and the potential for AI to significantly improve human welfare while highlighting the potential risks. The conversation concludes with a discussion about the nature of AI progress and its implications for the future.

00:00 Introduction: The Importance of AI
00:15 Meet Claude: The AI Behind the Scenes
00:42 Exploring AI's Impact on Society
01:09 Special Episode Announcement
01:31 Interview with Jared Kaplan
02:55 Jared's Early Life with Technology
07:20 From Physics to AI
15:49 Understanding AI Alignment and Safety
17:10 Constitutional AI: Principles and Practices
27:51 Claude's Unique Features and Capabilities
34:26 The Future of AI and Society
49:02 AI's Creative Boundaries
51:01 Cultural Sensitivity in AI
54:58 The Future of AI Progress
01:00:03 Data and Intellectual Property
01:02:22 Human-Level AI by 2030
01:08:55 Ethical Considerations in AI
01:11:43 AI Collaboration and Creativity
01:19:25 Blair Meets Claude
01:34:41 Conclusion and Credits

The conference is dedicated to the latest technological advances that are revolutionizing industry and everyday life. Automation is transforming production processes, introducing higher precision and efficiency, which leads to significant cost and time savings. Implementing modern systems allows to minimize human errors, increase production efficiency and flexibility, and optimize resource management.

Robotics, with its increasingly advanced robots, is changing the way we work and live, contributing to the improvement of the quality of life and safety. Robots are used not only in industry, but also in medicine, logistics, agriculture and many other sectors. Advanced robotic systems are able to perform complex tasks with high precision, supporting human work.

Artificial intelligence (AI), thanks to machine learning algorithms and the analysis of large data sets, opens up new possibilities in medical diagnostics, resource management and the creation of intelligent decision support systems. AI helps to predict trends, optimize processes and create innovative solutions that would be unattainable with traditional methods. In medicine, AI supports doctors in diagnosing diseases, planning treatments and personalizing therapies.

This conference aims to bring together experts, scientists and industry representatives to exchange experiences, discuss challenges and discuss future directions of development. The latest trends and innovations that shape the future of these dynamically developing fields will be presented. Participants will have the opportunity to learn how the integration of automation, robotics and artificial intelligence can transform various sectors of the economy, increasing competitiveness and supporting sustainable development. Discussions on the ethical and social aspects of these technologies will also play a key role, providing a comprehensive perspective on their impact on the future of society.

Can artificial intelligence be funny, or is comedy a uniquely human trait? In this witty and insightful talk, cartoonist Bob Mankoff explores the art of humor, the evolution of AI and what happens when the two collide. (Recorded at TEDxUofM on Feburary 9, 2024)

Oct 9, 2024 This presentation originally premiered at AI at Wharton's second annual Business & Generative AI Workshop in San Francisco on September 5-6, 2024. Anil Doshi, Assistant Professor, UCL School of Management.

This video on Artificial Intelligence gives you a brief introduction to AI discussing how it can be a threat as well as useful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xxopgnd0lIE

Jul 13, 2022 #Spark #artificialintelligence
How is artificial intelligence impacting our day-to-day life? This documentary explores the history of technology and the impact of robotics and artificial intelligence, and the future of work. It also discusses past lessons and what business, government, and society must do to prepare for the future.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6U9mhKAFFA

Feb 16, 2018 #IsaacAsimov #iRobot #NeildeGrasseTyson
Watch the 2020 Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate on Alien Life: • 2020 Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate: Al…

Isaac Asimov’s famous Three Laws of Robotics might be seen as early safeguards for our reliance on artificial intelligence, but as Alexa guides our homes and automated cars replace human drivers, are those Three Laws enough?

Neil deGrasse Tyson, Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium, hosts and moderates a lively discussion about how A.I. is opening doors to limitless possibilities, and if we’re ready for them. The 2018 Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate took place at the Museum on February, 13, 2018.

For a full transcript of this debate, visit: https://www.amnh.org/explore/amnh.tv

Listen to a podcast version on our blog: https://www.amnh.org/explore/news-blo…

2018 Asimov Panelists:

John Giannandrea
Senior Vice President of Engineering, Google

Helen Greiner
Co-Founder, iRobot; Founder, CyPhy Works

Ruchir Puri
Chief Architect, IBM Watson

Max Tegmark
Professor of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; President, Future of Life Institute

Michael P. Wellman
Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Michigan

Sep 24, 2023 #dwdocumentary #ai #documentary
Creativity. Emotions. Artificial intelligence is pushing further and further into primal human domains. The existential question arises: What actually makes us what we are, when the uniqueness of the human being is challenged?

For millennia, we humans saw ourselves as the pinnacle of creation, because only we could create art, talk to each other, play chess, throw bombs, vacuum the apartment and so on. But artificial intelligence and robots are increasingly making our apparent uniqueness pale in significance. What, if anything, makes humans unique? Can a computer be creative? And what does it mean for our society when we can no longer tell if we are communicating with a human being or with an artificial intelligence? After all, algorithms can determine our consumer behavior, write volumes of love poems, diagnose cancer, control weapons systems in war and drive cars.
Filmmaker Volker Strübing explores the relationship between humans and robots. Together with his AI named Thekla, he focuses on core values: What does the simulation of empathy or love mean? Why do we question the validity of a work of art, the moment we learn it was created by a machine? The documentary "I Compute, Therefore I Am" examines which areas we are willing to leave to an AI - and which we feel should belong exclusively to humans.

Apr 29, 2021
Imagine the incredible value if every project was delivered on time, on budget and with little or no change to the scope of work? That is the potential of applying artificial intelligence (AI) to project management. However, misconceptions and lack of preparation are huge challenges for organizations that attempt to implement AI for project management.

This presentation starts with a concise overview of AI and provides basic guidelines for how it can be used in projects. A practical demonstration of AI capability in project management is included. AI is a disruptive technology that will change the way we manage projects. We need to understand the potential of this technology and use it to deliver the project success rates that this profession truly deserves.

About the Presenter

Paul Boudreau is a highly respected project management professional with over thirty-five years experience in the technology industry. Paul is currently a college professor in Ottawa, Canada where he teaches in the project management program. He is a global leader in researching and applying AI concepts to project management, focusing on three areas: machine learning, natural language processing and genetic algorithms. He is obsessed with finding ways to dramatically increase project success rates and has written two books about using AI for project management, "Applying Artificial Intelligence to Project Management", and "How the Project Management Office Can Use Artificial Intelligence to Improve the Bottom Line".

Recorded October 4, 2023.

U of T Professor Emeritus Geoffrey Hinton is joined by Stanford University Professor Fei-Fei Li for a special talk on ethical AI, presented by Radical Ventures and hosted by the University of Toronto. They address the ethical considerations of AI development and its advancement — as well as its potential to solve some of the world’s most pressing problems. They also discuss their collaboration on one of the most important milestones in the history of modern AI.

Since leaving Google in May 2023, Geoffrey Hinton, known as the “godfather of AI,” has become vocal about the existential risks posed by rapid advancements in artificial intelligence. Li is co-director of Stanford’s Human-Centered AI Institute. She agrees with Hinton on the threat and emphasizes the need to invest in public institutions to help guide the technology’s future.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWWgr2rN45o