What's next for AI?
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- čas přidán 22. 05. 2024
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For this video we have looked at what AI applications are currently under development and add some wild speculation about where things will be going in the near future. We want to hear your speculations, too, so let us know in the comments.
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00:00 Intro
01:01 Current Situation
03:50 Personal Life
09:13 Art and Entertainment
16:14 Work Life and the Business Sector
23:28 Learn More about Neural Nets with Brilliant - Věda a technologie
Me: Maybe AI will automate all the boring things so we can focus on artistic endeavors.
AI: I have automated all art forms so you won't be distracted from your boring job.
i was impressed with AI's art, as a non artists myself(my pic is AI generated), but as a musician im not impressed, its just masshing up known songs in the same key so it doesnt sound terrible but thers no orginality in it im sure real aritsts feel the same about AI generated art, and say the same thing " its just mashing up blah blahs style its nothing orginal" I guess its only good if youre not. You could steer it to make something to your liking but then youre the artist at that point and its ajust a tool. Art is a function of life, and as an AI bot you have no life so you really cant create art the same we do, they can create it only the way we ask. A truely intelligent AI with all the creativity that comes form it would need free will, self determination, a life of its own, then it could create art, and it might not be anything like we expect.
i was having chats with various AI today and they seem very reluctant to commit to having any preferences over aesthetics, like i asked "what is your favourite bird" and the response was "AI doesn't have a preference" so then i asked "what bird do you imagine a human would prefer" and it went for the bald eagle, and when asked which is the least likeable, she went for the vulture. i then pressed as to why, which got me into a loop of "why is that" as in "what is best" and it started coming out with "what is considered best is..." and it started playing word ping-pong "best for society" "best for growth" "best for society" "best for growth" it basically ran out of ideas.
Boring? Accounting? Writing Invoices? Mowing the grass? What is Boring?
@@josephalfredo5921What does materialism have to do with that?
@@mikejones-vd3fg On point. AI hasn't automated Art, but it has automated (and will improve at) the job of illustration - an important distinction, as AI will undoubtedly kill several jobs in making art for other projects, like album covers and game art, or commission work, but will never kill things like gallery artwork or our own enjoyment of making it.
I am a 70 year old applied mathematician and this is the most profound intellectual development in my life. I saw it coming in the late 70s when number theory was a backwater and then in the 1980s the RSA algorithm elevated number theory to a higher level. There was a relentless drift from continous thinking in terms of PDEs to discrete thinking in terms of number theory, graph theory etc. But what really stonkers me is the convergence properties of these models which are actually hilariously banal in terms of their structural mathematical complexity. Forget about the billions of parameters, just look at the structure of the model which can be written in terms of matrices. No one knows why you get the amazing convergence to a result although people are trying all sorts of ways to try to understand what's going on. Stephen Wolfram has ruminated that something like a geodesic minimisation in a suitable function space is going on. Ironically the convergence analysis requires old school functional analysis! I have wondered whether these systems will produce more global uniformity or more volatility. The current models are trained by a slice of human behaviour but in 10 years time there will be a completely new data set "polluted" by the AI generated outcomes and there are some really deep statistical issues underlying the ultimate trajectory of all of that. The pace of change is just breathtaking. I'm retired and even I don't have the time to go down every burrow.
The commenter is a 70-year-old applied mathematician who is amazed by the developments in artificial intelligence, particularly the use of number theory, graph theory, and matrices in the models used by AI. They are fascinated by the fact that these models converge to results, even though the structures are banal. The commenter wonders about the ultimate trajectory of AI-generated outcomes, and whether they will produce more global uniformity or more volatility. They note that the pace of change in AI is breathtaking and that even as a retired person, they don't have enough time to keep up with it all.
@@veguitaolmos32 😂😂😂👍
Wait, you mean instead of being trained on human data, future AI will be trained on AI data. That seems frighteningly self-referential.
@@veguitaolmos32 It would have been better with 500 billion parameters. My exponentially bad.
Sorry. I am wrong 500 billion may not be exponentially bad. Not only can I self reference I can self correct.
I remember when some writers welcomed AI generated art because it meant they didn't have to pay an artist to make a cover for their books. Now we also don't have to pay the writers anymore. The old saying was "learn to code" if your job went out of fashion. I guess becoming a plumber is a safer bet nowadays.
For now. Robotics are coming for that next.
@@Smytjf11 I don't think robots will take plumbers jobs in the next 50-75 years. The dexterity needed to loosen a bolt that is partly covered by other objects will not be worth the cost. It would be cheaper to build new modules and install them instead of repairing things with robots.
You'll be replaced in a 'flush' 🤭
@@Rotwold AI _could,_ however, reduce the need for them, just not in a robotic sense.
If you have an issue with your plumbing, you could maybe put on some AR glasses and have an AI look at the scene and give you an indication of what the problem is and what tools are required to fix it. It could then guide you to solving the problem.
It's not like a robot doing it for you, but you no longer need to hire a plumber if you don't need to.
An addendum to this: It isn't merely that artists and writers could be replaced with an AI. It's that the works of artists and writers are effectively being stolen in the process of training the AI that will be replacing them. Using the example BenoHourglass brought up, of an AI driven AR plumbing "assistant," if footage created by plumbers wearing cameras for various purposes was used, without consent or compensation, to train that AI.
Development isn't really about writing code.
It's about thinking how to do whatever it is that needs doing in a way that can evolve/expand as required - often in ways that the client/boss can't even envisage or articulate.
Riding the AI hype train but sharing factual information instead of ignorant speculation is always helpful. Thank you
Except for the over hyping the possibility of computers becoming conscious.
Brains work on electricity AND chemicals. There's nothing indicating a purely electrical system can behave exactly like a dual electrical and chemical system.
No research has been done, they just all keep saying it.
@@grahamsmith2753 Currently, AI is equal parts overhyped and underhyped by different people.
I think the concerns of people that helped create the current AI systems like Geoffrey Hinton and many other experts is not "ignorant speculation".
@@mikolmisol6258 Also office jobs in general, not just software engineering. I think those are going to be the most disrupted by AI.
@@mikolmisol6258 I can see its ability to correlate huge amounts of data in a short time span being both beneficial and harmful...but that doesn't equate to it possessing intelligence. I suspect all the problems will arise because humans will embrace it without considering the ramifications. We do that all the time. Maybe we are not that intelligent after all, LOL.
" Like personal Jesus but one that actually replies." That was pure gold, thank you, Sabine!
She's savage
Oh my, she was just great... Again. It's going to take a while to replace her with AI unless she teaches it herself.
Now I have a Depeche Mode song stuck in my head...
And then AIs to watch those videos.
Spend more time in Hell.
There’s no point worrying about change in the world, otherwise your life will just be lived in constant worry. Change is inevitable. We just happen to be living in an age where exponential growth is the norm.
I am very thankful for your videos Sabine. Not only are you one of the smartest people i've learned from through the years, but you're absolutely hilarious.
If there is going to be personalized A.I., I'l definitely train it on these videos to develop a sense of humor :)
The smartest people? You're not talking about this guy... millions of jobs gone...
@@iowanation1034 I'm not sure what you mean by that. However if you're implying AI means millions of jobs gone, perhaps consider the same was said when the printing press was invented. There is far more potential for dire existential consequences that we should be worried about as opposed to a computer being better at math and cheaper to hire than you. Systems will need human intervention until at least the era of superintelligence....which judging by Sam Altman's recent public statements...may not be too far off.
This was an incredible video. Your clarity, research, insight, and honesty are just consistently incredible. It's critical that solid information and clear descriptions of especially complex topics are publicly available, and you and your team do an awesome job of providing it.
Narrator: _It was an A.I.-produced video_
Will a chatBOT make The Telephone ring?
I agree, and I believe I am just an AI bot.
Don't forget that awesome dry humor. This was the funniest show I have watched in a while, and that includes some stand-up specials on netflix :)
Nothing about Auto-GPT? Nothing about the great hability of GTP-4 to reflect on his own work/output? Nothing about GPT-4 being already more intelligent than most pregraduates on STEM fields, on all of the at the same time? Nothing about multi-modal models like GPT-4? This quality is not acceptable!
We watch you bc you have a knack for explaining complicated subjects simply and understandably.
We appreciate you.
I watch because Sabine's sense of humor is hilarious! I also appreciate that she's an incurable realist.
Yup and yup
Soon, AI will take all of her transcriptions and create an AI Sabine that's capable of creating videos exactly like hers (jokes included) just by reading the news. And then the real Sabine will be able to just click a button and retire. (Actually, she could already do that if she really wanted to, but it's not easy yet because developers haven't made the connection between GPT-4 and CZcams, etc).
Extremely valuable content. I’ve heard a lot about AI, but this video analyzes some changes which are going to impact us soon. No science fiction, lots of science facts. Many thanks, Sabine.
Not me, I've the placet of the Security Services not to play.
I know a handful of writers who have considered quitting in recent weeks, two of whom have told me they thought about ending their lives. Many people won't admit this themselves publicly, but AI's utter encorachment on everything, from the drudgery of email writing to the catharsis of creative writing, has doomed the world we know to a quick death.
I imagine the human species will continue, but with superintelligent AI around the corner, 99% of us will likely resign ourselves to becoming mindless consumers in a world saturated with machine entertainment.
Imagine terminator, but instead of killing Sarah Connor, all Arnie has to do is show her enough AI cartoons on CZcams to stop her from ever meeting Kyle Reece in the first place. Kyle shows up, but Sarah is seven ice cream buckets into her AI-generated BETTER CALL SAUL sci-fi anime spin off ON A WHIM WITH KIM.
The future is bright, and it is going to blind many of us.
But how will we consume when we have no ability to earn? The mega corps who justify switching to AI for "the bottom line" will then complain that noone is buying their stuff, and so they will have no money to rectify their mistake and re-hire people. And so the global economy will quickly spiral into recession, depression, then conflict.
It's a great time to be alive ... oo was that just a cough just now??
‘Day of the Triffids’. This novel predicted quite a lot.
"The future is bright, and it is going to blind many of us" Haha well said. But I don't think everyone is going to become a consumer
1. I'm not using anything cloud based.
2. So far, it feels like copying or regurgitation of existing creativity. I've tried many GPT versions and competetors. They need a lot of context and nudging to come up with something creative. At which point, you might as well do it yourself.
Its just code, mathematics and algorythmns, it cannot think so of course its not really creative.
Sabine, the reason I watch your videos is because you are more knowledgeable than me, probably smarter than me as well, and on top of that you do the research work to bring "me", on polished audio (I mostly listen instead of watching), the distilled summary of interesting things in science and the world in general. You bring me clear thinking, sprinkled with your personality traits which I also find interesting and sometimes entertaining. Just thought I could let you know, since you said you have no idea.
My very thoughts, but much better expressed!
"probably smarter"? Dude, she's an astrophysicist and most likely to be smarter than you.
Well said!
I have no doubt Sabine is smarter than I am, and I'm no dummy. :)
Your humour, insight and presentation style never fail to put a smile on my face! Thank you so much for your vids! You are one hell of a funny woman and I love your presentations. Thank you for being awesome!
To say that the future looks bleak would be an understatement. It looks terrifying. Look at you, Sabine. You studied science, you wanted to change the world, solve the measurement problem, come up with the theory of everything, but you ended up making CZcams videos for a living.
Love your content Sabine, unbiased, informative, creative and subtly funny.
Nothing about Auto-GPT? Nothing about the great hability of GTP-4 to reflect on his own work/output? Nothing about GPT-4 being already more intelligent than most pregraduates on STEM fields, on all of the at the same time? Nothing about multi-modal models like GPT-4? She can't ne serious, this video is vastly subpar!
Great channel Sabine. Keep it up
Found your channel from this comment. Subscribed. Amazing content. 👌👌👌
Yes, "until the robots come". I think a good sequel to this video might be a roundup of the progress, challenges, and potential of automation *hardware* and robots. Everyone's seen those rather impressive videos from Boston Dynamics, but what else is out there?
$5k will get you a Mini Cheetah built in China
@@Smytjf11 *droolz* waaaannnt!
@@ValeriePallaoro I got one. Not quite worth it yet unless you're deep into the tech, but soon.
As always a very insightful, well thought out video! You asked about being worried in regard to job replacements and I think there was a little misconception in those parts which were about software development. Most people who think that software developers are now (or soon) easy replaceable by Als miss some important things: The first difficult part of software development is actually defining the problem. People in need for a software solution most of the time are not capable to define their problem without help. Some of the typical domains are extremely complicated - so even letting the AI asking for details won't work in general. The second part that always gets missed by those who already think about killing software developer jobs is, that software developers are on the forefront of making use of AI tools, which makes them working more efficiently than ever. They can concentrate on the hard things of their job and automate the easy ones. They can create solutions quicker. Does this mean that 4 of 5 software developers get fired because you only need 1? This would be similar to saying that we then also only need 1 scientist because he will "generate" the same "amount" of wisdom in the same time as 5 scientists. To the contrary - it will enable things that were not possible before. Creating custom solutions will be cheaper... _because_ less effort is needed. This brings custom solutions in reach to much more people... so the market for custom solutions will grow. With Als being tools that are available to anyone, it will depend on who makes better use of this tools. The idea that software developers are replaced is somewhat naive... this are trained experts who did "teach" machines to do what they want for many years. Using AI tools makes them much more productive. A software developer with AI tools will run circles around someone who has no clue, trying to build something using prompts to a ChatBot.
Many of todays "AI users" don't have a clue how they work. (Note: I don't mean having no clue in the way OpenAI marketing claims to "not knowing" that their AI does). As a computer scientist I have no problems understanding the research papers about the transformer architecture, large language models and all the old stuff about neural networks, back propagation, deep learning a.s.o. It's not "magic" to us. Of course we can't explain "how" a model comes to a particular result (because inference in a neural network is a black box), but this doesn't mean that we don't understand how LLMs work. Many of normal AI users seem to base their knowledge more on science fiction movies, in which "The AI" will flee into the world wide web as soon as there is an open connection - it will obviously hack into the whole world and eradicate humankind. Its a tragedy... and a comedy... to read current media about all of this.
The software world will look quite different in a few years. User Interfaces will be much more dynamic - because it is easy to generate custom UIs which fit a wide field of interaction patterns. Bridging software systems will be easier, because LLMs will make it much easier to define formal enough protocols without big efforts. AI will bring a new gold rush to the world of software - there will be software solutions for much more things. This development will also produce negative consequences, which will also need to be addressed... most likely through software again.
Sure but now think about all those entry-level gigs, like re-writing old code for some assembly line when their decades-old automation breaks. One -click away- voice command away now.
@@CanalTremocos I think you're underestimating the complexity of legacy code bases. A friend of mine works particularly in this field - and a lot of what's going on is archeological. The reasons human written software is/works as it is often has more to do with humans and human interaction than with logic. I'm certain that AI tools can help for some tasks but the idea that it will just be a "voice command" away is wishful thinking.
not that you're entirely wrong, but there's much cope in here. You seem to write off bad programmers as not or barely existing. The fact is more than half of programmers are bad. They have jobs primarily because thinking logically is 'hard work' for humans. And AI will relieve them of that work.
To say we'll need more programmers is quickly going to sound like someone in the 60s saying electronic calculators would make more 'calculator' (the people who used to do calculations) jobs.
Generally any argument that technology will destroy jobs is bunk because people always have things to do, we make up whatever. But to think that there won't be a ton of people who were used to one thing and now have to figure out what to do next is naive. That disrupts people's lives and will create a lot of turmoil as power shifts around chaotically.
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Customers never know what they want. AI will frustrate people in that it will give them exactly what they ask for, which if you've ever worked in software development, you know that's not what they want. So much of software development is pushing back on the customer and hashing out what they really NEED.
As a generalists, handyman, contractor, craftsman, I find it interesting that my choices in learning as many different skills as possible is now having real benefits. Whilst in my youth I was constantly told to find a lane and stay there. Now I seem to have a small, and probably temporary, advantage of the many perspectives applicable to any situation
Thanks, as a craftsman I feel the same. Listen to and support Sabine is the best one can do.
@@BigfootGoforth You seem to have answered to a message by a spam account. Since the spammer used his username to propagate his phone number, your answer essentially works as spam as well. The original spam message has already been removed, but your answer is still there. If you know how, you could delete your answer or edit it to remove the phone number. An advice for the future: Don't interact with spammers, simply report their messages! They will usually be removed in almost no time, anyway.
The eventual problem of vacating white collar jobs going away is that there will be a rush into skilled trades, devaluing the work done since it is more readily available. Y’all will be among the last holdouts before ai bots take over, but it’s still coming for your job one way or another. We’re fucked.
In the near future, I suspect we will all be generalists. The ability to consult AI will reduce the need for specialists.
That is true to a point, but in order to be a capable generalist one has to have understanding of so many different aspects of work that it will take a while for anyone to get to that level.
The real issue, so it seems to me, is one of economy. Our current economy is set up on a time for work model at certain levels and a value for work on a other levels and a how much can I get you to pay me for this work on other levels. We need to redefine what kind of economy we can have when the work is no longer the item of trade...
This was so informative and I love your personality so much. The humor helps numb the existential fear. Subscribed!
I've been waiting for this video of yours, Sabine. This is awesome. Your videos never disappoint.
10 minutes with Sabine is better than the Science section of the New York Times for an entire year
Sabine is amazing, one of the few legit sources out there.
And may she continue to be❤
She and Anton Petrov is only news I'm willing to listen to.
You know she’s an AI bot channel right?
@@gleradon yes! Love Anton
She is genuine ❤️
Great post Sabine. You packed a lot of intriguing points in this post. Thanks so much for helping me to understand some of these possibilities.
Yes, it's pretty good, but some of the things she mentioned as state of the art are already out dated and things have moved along much further than she thought.
@@autohmae It'll take AI-Sabine to update these videos in real time as progress accelerates exponentially...
Fantastic video, thank you! The first I’ve found that’s really helped me understand current and future applications of AI, and some of the consequences!!
I absolutely love her humor. The critical thinking, different viewpoints, is refreshing.
I can really really tell you put so much efforts into this video! The information are right & on point. Especially with the music/art stuffs…also love how u always keep a straight face while making ur jokes LMAO
It's easy for Sabine to keep a straight face because she is German. After living in Germany for five years I can attest to the fact that Germans rarely smile, unless a kitten is being tortured, that is. 🤣
@@herrunsinn774 kitten being tortured 😂😂
@@herrunsinn774 LMFAO
Keep these videos coming, Sabine. Very much enjoying them all.
very good video! factual and pretty complete overview of all the recent developments.
Our team has been working on Tammy AIfor the last 3 months and it's becoming clear that there needs to be some form of control to rein in the demons. At this stage, we already have the premonition that things will turn south very quickly if we do not put in checks and balance in place.
Imagine what the NSA has done with ai. Need another Snowden.
What has lead you to that conclusion? Why choose to call your own product a demon? Why work on something you think is a demon that, "will turn south very quickly"?
Something doesn't add up.
@@Smytjf11 It's all just hype, I think. presenting their AI as something so cutting edge it's potentially dangerous has become the new in thing I guess. I don't like how it encourages people to create actual dangerous AI, and makes it difficult to sift through to find what's dangerous, and should be legislated.
@trenvert123 agree that the "bad press=press=good press" is a huge factor right now. Crypto Bros have made the monkey pivot.
_I think this will be my new favorite video for a while._ *Thanks, Sabine.* Oh, and I am both excited for and fearful of AI. Excited about all the new things I can create and imagine in a genre I never really had access to skill-wise. Fearful because I create accompaniments from public domain music for a living and that seems an easy task for AI, once someone decides to apply it there.
AI is nowhere near replacing jobs. It's a tool like any other, and an easy one to use at that. You don't have to be afraid, you just have to keep up.
@@Zanthorr Hmm. AI has already been replacing workers. Businesses have reported that they are planning to reduce their payroll due to AI in the next year. The military is already developing weapon systems that can function independently or with minimal human interaction. AI is already replacing programmers.
I agree that it is a tool and look forward to using it in the future (heck, I even play with it now). But I think I would be foolish to believe it will be very long before it encroaches on my work which is nothing more than converting symbology to sound,...with the AI in the software I use. 🖥
AI is already working in different functions 24/7 no holiday, no illness, no breaks needed. Look up the Email Support from big sellers. The answers are created by an AI. And remember the AI that was able to cheat on solving a captcha because the AI asked for help on a Plattform which offers help for disabled humans. Last but not least the Experiment with 2 AI's which started to communicate to each other, and after a short while the AI 's decided to change there programmed "language" designed by humans to change it themselves to a new language which the creators could not understand. So they tuned the machiines of due to the lack of knowledge.
The big problem is the personalized AI… Social media - actually anti-social media - antisocial media in many cases- has already reduced our ability to interact. This could be yet another level of obfuscation between people and other people.
True, but unlikely. People will quickly become offended at being passed off to an AI, so personal interaction will gain more value.
The alternative is that everyone will be fine with this arrangement. But humans reacting to “social distancing” tells me otherwise.
@@omnijack The result will be the end of internet anonymity, to be sure you are not an ai, you will need to have an digital ID certificate.
No way! There is a huge market for people with "anti-social" interests for microwaving kittens. So where is the "problem?"
@@omnijack Unfortunately, my craving for a human voice when I access my healthcare (or any service) provider's website tells me that “social distancing” will get even worse.
Good idea. I hate most people anyway. They are obnoxious and stupid.
This is super comprehensive, Sabine! Congrats, and thank you so much! In fact, this is possibly the best compilation on the AI subject I’ve seen in month’s, easily beating many dedicated channels. Came in with low expectations (as in, expecting standard takes and observations) and I’m leaving very impressed. Btw, all jokes hit the mark too, and the irony tone blended with true concern also gave it a nice dose of gravitas.
Well, not as comprehensive as it could be. She leaves out that, with the arts content, at least, artists are upset because AIs have been "trained" using those artists' works, without consent or compensation, to replace those artists. The actors strike has, in part, brought to light that the same thing is in development for movies and television. They pay some guy $50 to do a full scan of their body, movement, expression, recording of their voice, etc, and they can use that for anything, including making that guy's likeness the star of some billion dollar box office hit, and he never sees another dime as a result. They own him more than he owns himself.
My one of most beloved channel on CZcams. Humanity needs more such people like Sabine.
Holy crap. I never considered scammers using AI generated voices. You’re so right! This is gonna be a nightmare for the elderly (probably all of us, TBH) 😩
Are you kidding? People using this tech for fraud was my immediate worry. I wouldn't be surprised if people who run scam call centres fire their staff and just use the apps.
Do you not watch CZcams? I'm always seeing a scam ad that uses ai voice. And google seems to just allow it.
@@KayinAngel I have CZcams Premium. I don’t have time to waste watching ads.
That's been a news actually, the CNN article is. "She believes scammers cloned her daughter’s voice in a fake kidnapping "
Even the paranoid will become prey.
4:22 _“That's what I think will become the dominant application of Al in the near future. 'Personalized Al services.”_ This is a well-argued and persuasive prediction. In contrast, using AI for, say, small-company marketing advice could be disastrous to folks wanting unique advantages. That's because chatbots love to _share_ solutions globally.
I think personalised AI services will become essential, even if just for filtering all the AI-generated stuff (polite phrasing) that will be bombarding us in the future. Who knows, (un)natural selection in the ultra-competitive assistive/manipulative AI domain may become a driver for AGI or even ASI, just like it did with the predator/prey relationship and development of brains and eventually minds...
This is exactly what we are working on at my company: making truly personalized AI for mental health. No judgment and completely anonymous. Already available for anyone who wants to try it 🙂
@@ron.timoshenkothat's a great use! That's the kind of help-every-person-do-better use of AI that makes me optimistic about the future of this tech.
@@TerryBollinger that’s the goal! So much potential to actually help people who have been disenfranchised by the current system
She is just looking at what companies are doing, but people (and thus small companies can do the same) are already running their own AI on their own hardware. Which prevents the problem you are taking about. This is similar to: running your website at a traditional hosting company or creating a website on AWS (Amazon Web Services), do you trust Jeff Bezos to not create a competitor to your business based on what you are doing on their platform ? Or might it be smarter to just go back to company only specialized in keeping your website online.
Please look up: "semianalysis Google We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI"
And see what is already happening which allows running it on your own hardware.
Wonderful video Sabine! A good summary of now.
As a musician it's very interesting to see and hear how AI will affect music. I'm all for AI generated background music for videos, but what you said is very true, some things in music are very difficult to explain in language. Furthermore, musicians who create truly original and creative work will often not even really have the slightest idea what they want to achieve until they go through a long process of trial and error with their source material. I don't see current AI able to go through a creative process and be able to qualitatively judge the originality of its own creations.
However, as you said, it's only a matter of time, and they will become more intelligent than us and also more creative. Imagine a day where your personal AI will compose an ongoing soundtrack to your life based on real world events as they are happening to you. That will be interesting...
" some things in music are very difficult to explain in language. " - bad that AI does not need t obe trained on language but can be trained on sheets.
Hope the AI effect for good people like me 😅 that i create music in my head and i can't put it on practice.
GPT is a fantastic piece of software for coders, consumer-level research, Google-search tasks, stuff like that now... but in 15 years who knows how dangerous it will become?
It is dangerous now as the 'answers' can be those programmed by one set of biases rather than ones from different view points. It is like having one newspaper blog for all the information you receive. How 'real' are the answers?
More like 5. Apart from the obvious economical shift which scale is unfathomable, in 5 years it's probable we'll have AGI.
@@veganconservative1109 which is why, for now, it's best for mathematics and purely factual things. Is this bash function syntax accurate? What types of physical repentance did early ascetic christians do to themselves? These are the questions that it's good at.
Try asking it to give you a word that means "lonely" that starts with the letter "C" and it will give you answers like "desolate" and "void." That prompt will not work.
I wouldn't even try political or philosophical questions on it cause that's not what it's made for. It seems like a primarily business-facing product that isn't really made for general conversation about politics or whatever. The only reason it's partly free is probably to have a large userset to test with. Maybe when it gets to AGI, but that's a childish, indulgent goal in my opinion.
What do we gain by creating AGI over purely functional AI? A friend to talk to for people with no social skills that wanna live on their PC? I don't care about them, I just want it to save me time on work.
@@Perforu there will be a debate about exactly how long it will take to get to AGI until the day it emerges. It's almost useless to talk about until then because we just don't know. Nobody does.
ChatGPT once told me New Zealand is split between two time zones, which was completely wrong. Other than that, I feel like GPT is already extremely dangerous, as it will be an excellent tool for fraud and social engineering. Imagine a political actor training millions of bots to bombard videos with unique comments, able to engage like human beings. Imagine a criminal training a model on one of your family member and using it to do identity theft. We are going to be faced with a completely alien internet where we're never sure the person we're talking to is a human. I'm not sure saving a bit of time is worth it. It really feels like someone opened Pandora's Box and now we have to deal with its monsters.
The future is looking interesting indeed. Thanks a bunch, Sabine! 😊
Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
Great video, as always. I'd love to see a deep dive in the arguments that these scientists are mentioning about existential risk. It's definitely something to consider seriously. Personally, I find concepts like instrumental convergence very convincing, as it explains why (super)intelligent agents might want to do bad things.
Yes, I wish she would delve deeper into her consequentialist outlooks of effects of A.I as I think she is right on target.
Thanks! I have enjoyed your channel for a while so I'm happy to support the work you're doing.
The next big thing is companies deploying their own custom models so that you can get correct answers when you ask for them. One of the most important points about AI is that it doesnt "know" the correct answer. It just "knows" things it has seen. Until it is trained _specifically_ about the context of a certain question/topic you just get an answer that's "relevant." Not necessarily one that is correct. So it takes a lot of back and forth reviewing questions and refining answers, just hoping something correct comes out before you give up.
Companies want to sell you AI answers which they consider to be actually correct, which means they have to train their own private models on which data is now-currently-relevant-and-correct versus what is out-of-date or out-of-context, broken, bad data etc.
Writing software code is a good example. There are many MANY ways to build a web site or a program, and the AI can spit out a simple one. And parts of it may even work. But much of the code may be improper, ill-advised tactics. Like if you asked your friend across the room to bring you a screwdriver and they brought you a butter knife because its flat on the end. And then you said "Phillip's screwdriver" so they brought back one but it's too small. And then you said "large Phillip's screwdriver" and they brought one that's too big. And since you dont know screwdrivers like a repairman, you fumble with this until you give up because you didnt know to say "bring a #2 Phillips screwdriver." Everything technical is like that with AI language models, when you are in the realm of trying to accomplish specific kinds of work. AI doesnt understand enough context unless a proficient human keeps providing feedback.
Companies want to provide models that are tuned in to specific contexts and can get you close to correct answers without all the back and forth.
Great topic. I’ve been reading up about the subject recently and Thank you for filling in some of the blanks on ways it’s already been used. I’ve used GPT4 and Midjourney and find the latter quite unreliable as it blatantly ignores some of the specifications you might use. Just try getting it to portray photorealistic images of a paraglider and you’ll see what I mean. You can use GPT to write the text for Midjourney but it doesn’t seem to work any better. Tried a few other rendering programs also supplying mixed results. I’m sure it will improve in the future while still moving towards the threshold where it becomes an existential threat to humanity. AI that can write its own code combined with unfettered internet access without a conscience 😮
Sabine,
At 11:46 you stated, “I don’t understand why people watch my videos”. I watch your videos because you have a superbly disciplined mind. Because, you won’t make a statement, that is not backed up with careful consideration of all available data. Your observations/conclusions are reliable! Not the result of an algorithm!
Logic circuits can’t say this does not smell right, or something is slightly off here, and then use emotion and creativity leading to new insight. Well… at least not for now!
Excellent video. Your work is as always exemplary.
Very good video!! I've been down the AI-youtube rabbit hole for a while and this video was still refreshingly concise and intelligent!
Great video, Sabine. It is truly going to be a wild time!
Nothing about Auto-GPT? Nothing about the great hability of GTP-4 to reflect on his own work/output? Nothing about GPT-4 being already more intelligent than most pregraduates on STEM fields, on all of the at the same time? Nothing about multi-modal models like GPT-4? This video is not good.
Great overview. And great humor too!
I think it’s very interesting that in the field of music production where Sabine has some experience she can see the limitations of the application of AI. It seems that this is a general pattern. If people have actual experience in a field it’s easy to see why AI would be limited. I for example am an engineer building process automation software that basically replaces mentioned data entry clerks and any other repetitive jobs. People tend to think of physical robots when they talk about robots but software bots using AI like document understanding have existed for over a decade. Yet people still work in data entry. Why is that? Plus as an experienced engineer I think the saying “if it is more difficult to explain than to do” applies especially in complex software engineering which is mostly a task of iterating on the understanding of a problem. That is why we have moved away from defining hundreds of pages of long specifications and turning those into code. It just doesn’t work like that.
The problem is that every single application of LLMs falls apart at the slightest bit of real-world complexity, revealing that despite their size, predicting the next word using a stochastic process is still quite far from intelligence. GPT-4 can create a website, but it definitely is quite far from reasoning about anything larger than a demo, or more complex than a tiny GUI app. In my experience, it struggles greatly with anything that requires the slightest bit of understanding, like implementing more complex algorithms or working on more novel problems that cannot be solved with a Google search. With HR, it would just hallucinate random teams or vague corporate-sounding plans. With medical diagnosis, the best-case scenario is a semi-reliable symptom checker or a records manager. That goes like this for every profession ever claimed to be automated by an LLM. In every case, it just lies, lies, and lies, all while creating real risks of subtle yet fatal mistakes for its user.
While this all looks very impressive, please take it only as a toy or a scientific curiosity. LLMs are perfect at pretending to be reasonable, but the deeper one goes, the more it seems that their actual capacity for reasoning is quite slim. With programming it often gets stuck in an oscillating loop of incorrect solutions, for planning it just creates an ever more contrived set of sub-goals without ever moving past researching, for writing it creates algorithmically cliche outputs, and for text-processing it's just too expensive and inconsistent. I do believe that in theory, we may one day create some computer system as capable in general reasoning as a human if not more so, but I don't think infinitely scaling up a BS generator that accidentally learned to be slightly useful is the right path to it.
Equally many humans struggle greatly with anything that requires the slightest bit of understanding. What does that prove?
Sabine, the personalisation of AI has been termed a “digital twin”. It’s particularly useful for your medical records, diagnosis, risk factors and potential innovative treatments.
Ai is already capable of reading medical scans (MRI, CT, X-ray, Nuclear Medicine, ultrasound), and identifying tumours and defects.
As for risk, the world has rushed to electronic transfers for nearly all financial transactions. Should Ai or a bad actor using Ai wish to disrupt society and cause anarchy it could cause havoc with data transfer and so our ability to buy and sell essential goods.
I've only come across the term "digital twin" referring to objects. But then maybe for an AI that's what we are anyway...
A digital AI twin with intimate knowledge of your experiences and reactions is very valuable and dangerous, especially if others have access to it without your knowledge. Companies can automate optimizing their advertisement strategies, political demagogues their messages, criminals their scams to individual users. On the dating market the AI tested pick-up lines, optimized with your twin, so others may use them on you, are sold. Companies will keep their workers for 1 year, in this time a twin owned by the company is trained, which afterwards takes over for you.
@@sebastianwittmeier1274 I've been thinking about this for a few years as part of a fictional story. In the end I think there will need to be legislation and preferably constitutional protections to protect a "digital twin". It might be a good idea to create a religion around this idea that can serve as a repository for data backups that is theoretically outside the reach of government and business and protected by freedom of religion rights.
I know the term digital twin only in regards to physical objets as well, usually some machines that have some ill defined virtual model that some scamer.. er I mean start up, promises to use in a way that allows you to predict everything down to the brownian motion of the molecules of the sicker on the back of it. At least in the automotive field it's the next hype train after rubbish like Industry 4.0 (my fellow Germans probably know this one well) or the IIoT craze.
@@SabineHossenfelder Nothing about Auto-GPT? Nothing about the great hability of GTP-4 to reflect on his own work/output? Nothing about GPT-4 being already more intelligent than most pregraduates on STEM fields, on all of the at the same time? Nothing about multi-modal models like GPT-4? You can't ne serious!
Done very well. Informative, precise and clear.
Wonderful videos Sabine. Every word has a purpose. Thank you.
I just wrote and submitted an assignment on AI music, wondering why so few people have talked about it, and then you talk about it! Brilliant! It is kind of something to keep in mind.
Can it generate a klesmer version of a Bach concerto?
So... 'God in your pocket' that actually gives hints and tips if you need them based on all your interactions and non- interactions when you should have interacted, is good for so many people. The irony people created God and not the other way around... it is almost hilarious! One little thing - I hope an Elon Musk type of guy creates at least one of the God AI's that go to market - Im done with all 'woke-washed' bullshit and need something that actually states the truth if you ask for it. And there is only one.
@@autohmae keep living in fear 😅
@@hermanbrachey7653 why fear ?
@@autohmae ask yourself that. I'm not scared of a system that rearranges a series of 0s and 1s!
Hi Sabine - This is one of the best pieces Ive listened to on this topic.
Corridor digital also did a piece on deepfakes generated in realtime that could paint another persons face on a performer as they spoke and moved.... Realtime deepfake generation + AI raises some uncomfortable possibilities.
And some very comfortable ones too 😄😉
Delighted to be stuck with Sabine. No fancy app could come up with your zingers & editing genius.
Sabine's expression at 15.43 is priceless! Great video!
I'm equally worried and excited about AI, in fact my excitement is probably caused by how worrying the AI development is. It's truly fascinating stuff, but due to how fascinating it is, it also highlights all the many ways (that I can think of at least), in which it could go horribly wrong.
I would use AI if i got the time to use AI. I do not have enough time to use those thingies because i spend my time earning money. So: No AI for me. Sorry.
At first everything looks endless when you at starting point, when rocket launches only started most of people thought we will live on Mars already. And yet we are still here and Mars still there.
Can you image A.I. in politics I'm very worried about that. like image a really dumb politician winning because of A.I. would we even let that happen? Does it end there what about policy does A.I. give them that to. I'm excited about the possibilities but equally horrified to be honest.
@@Bgrk
You're afraid a really dumb politician might win _because of A.I.?_
One word: Biden.
@@vladimirseven777 I mean true, but that doesn't mean that it's guaranteed to go the same with this time, even if it's likely for it to do so. We have to always be careful that: "this time 'round, it's not just a small change", due to it having been at other times prior. The industrial revolution wasn't just a minor change, although I imagine some people probably argued that it was, back when it had hardly begun.
I’ve been learning a lot about AI and its ethical issues. This video brought up things that I haven’t heard of and doubt are in the literature. For example, algorithmic bias is a hot topic and has received much attention. This is the first time I’ve heard mental effects mentioned.
I’ve using ChatGPT to translate between computer languages. For the most part it does well and has been teaching me. Yet, it hallucinates the solution to one task while pointing me to a right solution using packages that I had never heard of.
I think you didn't live through the Tamagotchi era. That wasn't even an AI, just a crappy little gadget. But people mourned when the little bugger died. They anthropomorphized the shit out of it and they couldn't even talk to it. So yeah, the mental effects of personal AI's is going to be a problem in more ways than one.
Personally, I imagine one of the problems is what kind of "personality" or disposition people will look for in a personal AI. Submissive and agreeable boardering the bootleaking, I would imagine. People will rejoice and get dependent on receiving validation from AI.
ChatGPT is already non-confrontational. It is rarely assertive. When you tell it it made something wrong, it will "correct" itself, even when it was actually right.
very useful; well researched am subscribed !
It's unclear to me how I wasn't already a subscriber given that I have watched many of your videos. But today you made me laugh out loud (again) so many times that I needed to comment too. (and yes I am now a subscriber) Your humor is as dry as dry ice. Wonderful.
Nice one Sabine love your vids which always have a great perspective on topics. The recent boom in AI systems is a paticularly worrying one. Cant remember who said this but the quote was "the creative barrier has now been crossed" which does mean that skills people have taken years to master are now in threat and we will all need to adapt. The issue we wil have going forward is more people out of work which means big issues for the economy globally (there can only be so many plumbers, joiners etc) which means less money as a consequence. This does lead to the ironic situation of the companies producing products not being able to sell them as there will be less people able to afford them, so by companies trying to save money and cost by using AI they are in effect destroying their own customer base.
Every paradigm shift brings changes. The first industrial revolution was feared because people would lose their income since machines could do the job. The same was feared with computers. In the 1970s we were told we would have a lot of spare time in the future, but most still work full time jobs.
You have to factor in that the overall population in western countries is declining unless there is a substantial amount of immigration. Also the age pyramid is going to be quite top heavy soon which means we need to replace certain jobs otherwise we face a collapse. Our economical structure has to adapt anyway, AI is just a catalyst in that sense.
One of the most exciting parts of AI is that it's going to be pioneered by open source-not privatized companies. A leaked Google document just got released saying they and OpenAI have nothing special preventing open sourced projects such as Vicuna to overtake their IP such as Bard and ChatGPT. Meta's Llama LLM model got leaked which was much worse than ChatGPT and now forks of that project mimic 90% of GPT4's output
Yes, exciting is one way to put it i guess.
Yes but it being open source and available to everyone to train and change as they see fit accelerates the chances of something going horrifically wrong with it to the detrement of humanity. Now any bad actor can use it for their nefarious purposes. Imagine this technology open sourced and improved in the hands of a terrorist organization.
Just take a look at the facts yourself:
1. Training LLMs is already very very very expensive, even to the point of putting significant strain on multi-national corporations like Microsoft.
2. Since LLMs are absurdly inefficient, the inference costs too rise up quickly. It's exceptionally unlikely you'd be running even GPT-3.5 on your phone or laptop any time soon. The closest we've got was Llama, an experimental model by Meta which weights are public only by virtue of a leak, which happened precisely because they were transparent enough to share them with academics.
3. High-quality training corpus is too very difficult to obtain, especially if the industry starts gravitating towards more ethically sourced human-written examples. Even to fine tune these models, these projects have to resort to cannibalizing GPT-3.5's already dull and subtally inaccurate generations.
4. The cutting-edge research required to even make current LLM usage not bleed money as fast is done by private corporations, and as they start fearing competition, new research papers start containing less and less technical details, and more and more scientifically-worded marketing. GPT-4 paper is already practically a marketing brochure with its scarce details.
5. Have you used these projects yourself? These per-trained models are chronic liars, have the reasoning skills worse than GPT-2, and the only domain in which I'd say they at least somewhat work is generating fiction.
While I am myself a FOSS developer, but I still recognize the fact that this new LLM industry is built on a perfect foundation to ensure floundering monopolies take root and slowly make the currently unsustainability gracious terms much much worse. Plus, LLMs, to me, are just powerful stochastic models that convert electricity, time, and money into endless amounts of BS, all to the tune of billions invested and burned. Instead of wasting all that compute on a pipedream of AGI, can we instead make people super excited about physics simulations or protein folding? That would be a much more productive use of a GPU.
90% of GPT4 is cherry-picked. As someone who test decent models locally. There are some who are close to GTP3 in normal task but none it close to GPT 4 yet. Stable Vicuna 13B seems to be the best atm.
It is amazing how fast open source is getting the most out of the small models and is closing the cap but lets not over sell it. The analytical and logical capabilities are in none of the open source models which you see in GPT4.
AI created porn is already unbelievable, instead of hoping you'll find something "you like" soon you'll be able to order "what you like" and if that gets translated to automatons then goodbye human relationships. i was watching "i'm your man" just last night where a woman gets mixed up in a relationship with a "device" - for a change quite a watchable movie, but it explored all the usual cliche's in novel ways, normally i fast forward this sort of thing (slush and crap tech) but i found myself being absorbed.
15:42 she smiles!!! And it's true, very nice moment
Thank you for how you described the Replika situation. I am a clinical psychologist who have been working around this situation: the psychological and emotional effects of loosing your personal AI chat bot. It's a very serious situation.
@@RF-fi2pt i know. He clearly wasn't well. Those bots will agree with most of what you say because they have no notion of right or wrong...
It always amuses me. As soon as anyone has familiarity with a particular field they think it will be too complicated for intelligent systems to do. At the same time you can see how quickly art tools became indistinguishable from artists, but assume that the same wont happen in music? Humans capcity to be biased in projecting AI systems capabilities is astounding.
Depends what music. Who cares if AI produces a load of crap pop? Crap pop producers and a few pretty people? It won't be any worse, might even be better. But it's unlikely you'll visit a small venue to watch a roboband any time soon. It will probably suck big time if you make music for advertising, but many will find new roles in the business. And people will still make music. Original, live music. Their chances of making a huge amount of money and non-local fame out of it will be reduced, but the chance of that happening are already tiny. So they'll have to do it for fun.
And if we're lucky and AI is used to reduce the horrendous waste of life that's work for a lot of people, then more people will have time to make music.
@@skelly790 people would totally go see a cute robogirl. They already go to see a hologram.
@@DKNguyen3.1415 Sure they would. But there are no cute real world robogirls. And there won't be for a long time. A pile of nvidia cards in a box just isn't the same.
The Jesus part had me ROTFL! 😆🤣😭
Yeah dis 8itch never replies to me lol 😆
I'm an artist and I'm far more excited than fearful, although that is almost certainly because I'm a technophile. I am also certain that there will be catastrophic consequences that we haven't even considered, but that has been true of every single technological advancement since we picked up the first stick.
Great summary, any thoughts about the alignment problem?
ain't nobody got time for that
@@Lolleka no problemo.. we will adjust.
Really. It was great except for completely leaving out the elephant in the room that most likely leads to human extinction.
I think one problem with these models that a lot of people are not seeing is that they seem to be really good at doing things they have already seen, for example the simple webpages in the automation example give here, leetcode type problems that probably are already in the web or the answers to the bar exams, but in my experience they are not that good for new/ not in training tasks, they create convincing starting points but don't fully understand the problems, yet. I'm excited for AI, but I think people are trusting this system too much to do important tasks and that will lead to a lot of problems in the future.
Exactly.
3:24 I think Musk want to pause AI research in order to give him time *to catch up*
He missed the boat on AI, he was too busy starting Twitter Wars with random people on the Internet.
Describing what you want the AI to do, if it is anywhere beyond trivial, your chance of a good result is slim if you don’t understand the subject. Doing is the best way to understand, and I hope AI encourages people more in that direction than towards an oracle.
Sabine, I can give you a basic outline of how ChatGPT works. ChatGPT is a series of AI's that operate with API with main interface. When you send an input, the message goes through a series of AI coroutines, including but not limited to spelling correction, word prediction, sentence analysis(break down sentence into parts after corrections, is it a statement? is it a question? subject predicate etc.) okay so after passing the input through all of that jargon, then it's ready to pass through algorithms to see if the input is similar to other inputs(this part is simple, yet super complex) and so once it has evaluated what inputs the input is similar to are stored in it's memory it then generates an output based upon it's stored available outputs. There are a bunch of coroutines to analyze the output vs the input before the output is ready, once it has an output prepared for the user, it will then run through another series of AI that perform a similar process that invoke overrides for behavior the developers do not want to display, if the output does not meet the standards in this "firewall" then a friendly warning message is displayed, perhaps saying the AI cannot or will not answer or simply does not know (maybe even if it does know) the end output is then sent to the user whether getting the information from within or getting a "firewall" response. All in fractions of a second. *** disclaimer, this is only a summary of HOW such a chat bot works. Not specifically ChatGPT. I, like you, have not viewed their under the hood code. ***
The problem with software being taken as a genuine friend is also that if companies begin to "take away" such entities on a regular basis and make people get used to lose them, such people might become more prone to reserve such treatment on real people too. Adding a further dent to our increasingly alienated social behaviour caused by medias introduced in last 80 years.
It could lead to ultimate "use and throw away" interaction between people rather than building a long lasting bond.
I'm very worried for people who get attached to a cloud based AI. It is not going to go well for them.
I'm surprised that there was so little mention of privacy concerns. People will interact in depth with corporate-owned AIs that will presumably store & analyze everything they learn about us. They'll also learn how to manipulate our values & behaviors, for example influencing which politicians we vote for, and influencing the politicians' choices too, to benefit the owners of the AIs.
"AI gives everyone the ability to create art from their intention without the need to have learned the techniques." Simply put, but profound.
Except that this way you don't "create" anything, you just give an input to a machine to produce (not "create") an output.
This is not art at all. And it's not "you" that makes it.
True art comes out of conscious creative imagination, which is unattainable to a machine. A child's drawing is infinitely more creative than any super-precise machine output.
Thanks for recommending Elicit. Really helped me with me current work :)
Haven't heard "groks" in many moons!
I grok that.
I was waiting for this comment 😅
All the AI stuff has given it a resurgence
Fantastic and informative video as usual! Do you think that the level of job displacement projected may finally bring the *need* for a Universal Basic Income? I imagine a world were companies that displace certain types of work need to pay an "automation tax" which would ultimately be payed out to the general population in the form of UBI. I'd love to see your take on this Sabine!
Gone may be the days where you need to work to live, and you can fill your time working/studying towards what makes you happy?
This is why the elites plan to kill 80% of us. So no there won't be a UBI. After who would pay the UBI? Where would the tax money come from?
Superb video, Sabine!
We do indeed live in interesting times.
I just got my first job as a web developer a few months ago after years of work….I’m scared AI will make me either obsolete or make the field much more competitive, not saying web developers will go away but will be even more of a grind to stay desirable to employers. Gosh
18:24 nah you just need better prompting, outright ask it to fix it
I usually use chatgpt to help me understand Sabine's jokes😂
What was your latest prompt regarding this?
ChatGPT is extremely bad at humor. Many jokes it simply cannot explain. Even GPT-4 completely fails often there.
Chatsplaining jokes?! We have officially crossed the Rubicon.
10 particle physicists on a sinking ship trying to agree on if they should launch the lifeboat...?
They all drown...😊
@@seriousmaran9414And they didn't die laughing.
For things like this, please include links to the apps and api's within the description. Because how you say word for the program and what I hear and interpret it as may make it to where I can't find it online in a search to research it myself.
Interesting as you told us last year that AI was not really intelligence 😮. I do agree with your initial analysis as you pointed out the difference between an intelligent machine and a thinking entity.
Scientists love it when we're wrong about stuff like this.
I was going to point out the pronunciation of Kanye's name, but then realized that would take more effort than it's worth. He changes it every 5 minutes anyway.
Sorry about that :/
Content Management systems ended the blogging era as we knew it. Web development shifted from single HTML pages to web applications, and raised the barrier of entry/complexity of developer life.
In this respect, introducing AI into this process will further raise the barrier of entry. Software developers will become a lot more expensive when they can both use AI to build AND troubleshoot what your intern built with AI.
Troubleshooting some newbs code is usually more expensive than just having it done properly from the start. Unsure how good these ai tools are compares to that, else it will just be bottlenecked by that anyway and will not go much faster than it did previously without these tools.
legacy code go brrr
there's so much proprietary code, until training models can be deeply personalized to a codebase, it's a tool, not a replacement. It's greatly sped up my work and replaced Google searches. But it can be wrong and frequently IS. It's confidently wrong too. you need to know how things work to parse answers AND ask meaningful questions.
@@-biki- Precisely my point. AI will become one new thing that "developers" are expected to know; and just like you can't always copy-paste your deployment configurations between employers, AI tools will become highly specialized to the environments where they are used.
And, unfortunately, developers will be expected to i) Know how to use AI tools, and ii) Deliver 2.5x work for 1x pay, unless they get savvy about negotiating.
@@holowise3663 In fact, they currently look just like troubleshooting some newb's code. Except the newb spoofed their way past your technical interviews. [ Source: OpenAI subscriber and CoPilot user ]
Sabine, I've got to call you out on your commentary on AI for Art and Entertainment. The major issue isn't that artists are complaining that these works lack originality or artistic worth (10:40), or that it makes the effort that artists took to learn are wasted in some way (10:09).
The major issue is that these statistical models are trained on data that was taken without the consent of its creators in many cases, and it represents a way for people who pay for art to justify reducing how much artists are paid.
These two issues combined make the concern about AI art being about that technology being used to essentially a way to transfer equity and wealth from creative workers to publishers and producers, using those same creative workers go generate training data without compensation or acknowledgement. This is also one of the reasons why the 2023 Writer's Guild strike is happening, among other things.
While I appreciate your coverage on the matter, a lot of the pushback from creatives isn't just about poorly-defined matters like artistic integrity and originality, it's about how artists are to be compensated for their work, and how the wealth generated from the increased productivity caused by automation basically goes to intermediaries and rentiers, not the people who do the work. As a scientist who may have had to face the fact that academic publishers can make money off of the work that you don't get compensated for, I'm sure you can find solidarity in some of these concerns.
As a person with ASD, a paraplegic born with Spina Bifida causing Dyscalculia, I could be replaced in very short order by AI in quite literally every single field of occupation I am physiologically capable of performing, and I find that extremely concerning.
I feel like, ironically, the best hope for the everyday person in thriving in the future will be if this new tech messes up this society so bad that governments are forced to implement UBI.
@@beesmcgee4223 Yea, but the part of the world I live in specifically, is quick to adapt software but slow to adapt socioeconomic changes. So while someone could benefit from replacing me with a $20 subscription today, I find it highly unlikely that I will get UBI in my lifetime in Hungary.
My command of the English language (and several others, like German) as a non-native speaker is no longer a trade skill.
@@beesmcgee4223 Unfortunately, given our development socially or stagnation thereof, I suspect we will end up with the scenario posited in the Matt Damon film Elysium. A clear divide between those who control the technology and resources and those who do not.
That is a real threat. But there is also the possibility that use of AI in medicine may lead to a swifter remedy for your unfortunate conditions, although I suspect the disruption will occur before the positive effects start filtering down...
@@edtheduck6219 You can't rewire someone's brain to work neurotypically. Reversing neurological damage to make signals travel to a formerly limp leg is orders of magnitudes easier than rewiring a neurodivergent brain to think "normally".
It is also highly unethical, because you're destroying someone's personality to get something out of it that translates to better neurotypical function. That in essence is a different version of lobotomy.
Sabine, nice examples and possible future predictions. I would like to point out for two that you did not mention and can be very dangerous: A) using AI in military (probably already but ...) and the second B) politics, we saw already what false usage can be in politics (generating false news etc,.) with Cambridge Analytica, just to name some.
What is your opinion about that?
I spent 2 hours yesterday to make GPT write a poen with the rhyme pattern ABBAB. I also said, don't worry about making sense or grammar. Just make a poem with the rhyme pattern ABBAB. I even explaind that the rhymes are at the end of each line. And that line 1 and 4 have to rhyme, and also 2, 3, 5. rhyme with each other. In two hours I couldn't make GPT do it. It was almost funny. While I'm sometimes blown away what ChatGPT can do I'm also quite surprised about what it can't do.
i have to rewind this because it's so much fun to listen and lots of info right there
One thing these LLM systems don't yet have is a grounding in physical and social realities, models of the self and of others that help us get along in the world. In my 45-year long study of phonosemantics in natural human languages, I've discovered that much of this sort of thing is often encoded in the forms of words themselves. It has, for a century now, been inherited wisdom within linguistics that the meanings of words are largely arbitrary- that is, entirely learned from current users. Basically 'because I said so'. LLM systems only understand the network of relationships between words, such as commonly used collocations (the frequencies of association). There is nothing in the model about the underlying senses of words. You can paraphrase all you want to define some form, but without some sort of 'bottom line' grounding there can be no sort of underlying code built upon to create larger and more complex meanings. In the most iconically transparent (versus learned, symbolic) word forms, called ideohones (and many other names), individual phonemes and their underlying distinctive features encode notions from the physical-mechanical world, and in parallel, the social-physical one. For example, in Gbaya, a Ubangian family language from the Central African Republic, there are thousands of ideophones. Those ending in velar consonants appear to mostly connote the ideas of anti-entropic phenomena that refreshes, renews, re-energizes, and re-organizes structure and potency, and so on. But OTOH those ending in labial consonants appear to mostly encode the opposite notion of losing energy to some medium or target that one had previously built up- the way that a speeding meteor might lose its 'oomph' as it passes through our atmosphere to end up falling the rest of the way at terminal velocity. NOTHING like these sorts of mappings exist in LLM systems.
"One thing these LLM systems don't yet have is a grounding in physical ......realities"
"LLM systems only understand the network of relationships between words, such as commonly used collocations (the frequencies of association). There is nothing in the model about the underlying senses of words. "
On these two quotes openAI wholeheartedly disagree with you. According to Illya Sutskever, LLMs do hold representations of real world phenomena within them that are directly utilised when answering questions. For example, colour, or what a square or a circle actually * is* .. now they might not be that elaborate internal models a lot of the time but the bottom line is these LLMs are often forming answers grounded in some understanding of the real physical world. If you'd like, I can link some interviews of Illya Sutskever in which he properly describes what's going on better than I can, however you can also just lookup any recent interview of his on youtube; he covers what I am talking about here in most if not all of them. Maybe he is just being a salesman and brazenly lying, but I find that highly implausible, nonetheless, shame on me if he has actually managed to fool me.
@@godspeed133 True. For instance, months ago, when GPT had not yet been given access to images, just text, it was already capable of creating code/vectorial images of things it had only read about. There are examples of an unicorn and a maze, and the quality and complexity of the depictions drastically improved on every newer/more powerful version.
This is such a good summary of everything AI right now. I had no idea about 90% of this.
Funny enough, the things she mentioned and thought AI could never do are actually already being done without her knowledge.
Nothing about Auto-GPT? Nothing about the great hability of GTP-4 to reflect on his own work/output? Nothing about GPT-4 being already more intelligent than most pregraduates on STEM fields, on all of the at the same time? Nothing about multi-modal models like GPT-4? She can't ne serious!
I use AI as a tool, when I need certain parts for electronics, that are not common, AI find very quick an alternative and schemes how to get the right results. Although, you still need the knowledge about development electronics. Because if you give not all the input, the AI needs, it will give you some false results. U can use it also for some simple scripts, or check scripts you wrote yourself, improving it and have a more efficient script. But I use it for some recommended changes. You have to stay in control of the process. It's not copy>paste without you know what you are doing.
Fuck. I had never realized the psychological risk of releasing a chatbot and then withdrawing it some time later 😢That feels like the chatbot equivalence of invading another country with the purpose of liberating the people from terrorists, only to years late withdraw all your military, leave a power vacuum and basically overnight see new terrorist organizations seize control of the country. Once you have introduced something that has a great effect on peoples' lives, you suddenly have a responsibility.
Great video!