"Knowledge Creation and its Risks" - David Deutsch on AGI - Centre for the Future of Intelligence

David Deutsch gives a remote talk + Q&A to the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (CFI) in Trinity College, Cambridge.

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00:00:10 - Introduction by Clifford Siskin

00:05:25 - David Deutsch, "Knowledge Creation and its Risks"

00:27:37 - Q&A discussion

"David Deutsch will join us by Skype from Oxford University. Starting with the 1985 paper that first proposed the idea of a universal quantum computer, David's work has “set the agenda for subsequent international research efforts in quantum computation” (Royal Society). His focus on explanation rather than description has extended that influence across the disciplines, as it gives quantum theory a long-delayed purchase on the real after decades of “shut up and calculate.” In two books, The Fabric of Reality and The Beginning of Infinity, he has grounded those explanations in both history (the Enlightenment) and philosophy (Karl Popper). His current project, Constructor Theory, proposes a fundamentally new mode of explanation that precisely expresses the concepts of information and knowledge. In our discussion, he will bring this work to bear on the current state of AI and on the issues of regulating knowledge and technologies it has generated."

Points discussed include:
• AGI is inevitable but very hard and there's no sign of its being imminent.
• Progress in AI is not progress in AGI.
• Qua computer program, AI is the opposite of AGI.
• AGIs are people.
• Trying to shackle an AGI's thinking is slavery.

This event was sponsored by the Re:Enlightenment Project and the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence.

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