The Grand Challenge of Developing Friendly Artificial Intelligence – Joscha Bach
Joscha Bach discusses problems with achieving AI alignment, the current discourse around AI, and inefficiencies of human cognition & communication.
Discussion points:
0:08 The AI alignment problem
0:42 Asimov’s Laws: Problems with giving AI (rules) to follow – it’s a form of slavery
1:12 The current discourse around AI
2:52 Ethics – where do they come from?
3:27 Human constraints don’t apply to AI
4:12 Human communication problems vs AI – communication costs between minds is much larger than within minds
4:57 AI can change it’s preferences
Joscha Bach, Ph.D. is an AI researcher who worked and published about cognitive architectures, mental representation, emotion, social modeling, and multi-agent systems. He earned his Ph.D. in cognitive science from the University of Osnabrück, Germany, and has built computational models of motivated decision making, perception, categorization, and concept-formation. He is especially interested in the philosophy of AI and in the augmentation of the human mind.
Joscha has taught computer science, AI, and cognitive science at the Humboldt-University of Berlin and the Institute for Cognitive Science at Osnabrück. His book “Principles of Synthetic Intelligence” (Oxford University Press) is available on amazon.
