Should we speed up AI innovation?
You have in all probability heard of “efficient altruism,” however how about “effective accelerationism,” or e/acc? “You declare to be constructing a synthetic god within the human picture. We’re constructing the conduit for the thermodynamic god that created us. We’re not the identical.”
These are the words of Based Beff Jezos, a pseudonymous X account dedicated to spreading the e/acc message far and extensive, as soon as described by enterprise capitalist Marc Andreessen as a “patron saint of techno-optimism” and by its detractors as “unhinged” and “completely poisonous for the AI discourse.”
The person behind Primarily based Beff Jezos was unmasked in Forbes journal final December as Guillaume Verdon, a Google quantum computing engineer-turned-co-founder of the AI startup Extropic, which has obtained about $14 million in seed funding to develop a brand new type of chip for working AI fashions.
He joins us at the moment to speak about efficient accelerationism, the politics of AI, and what his firm is doing to guarantee that Synthetic Basic Intelligence (AGI) arrives rapidly and stays past the management of a single company or authorities.
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Chapters
- 00:00 Arising…
- 00:28 Introductions
- 02:13 What’s efficient accelerationism?
- 04:33 Constructing a conduit for the thermodynamic god that created us?
- 09:54 Is AGI inevitable?
- 17:01 Why open supply AI does not want regulation
- 29:18 A Second Modification for AI?
- 31:58 Philosophical foundations of e/acc
- 37:16 An AI arms race between the U.S. and China?
- 55:27 Criticism of OpenAI
- 01:01:08 AI below the second Trump administration
- 01:07:22 Designing a biologically impressed chip
- 01:15:46 How the American chip trade might be impacted by China and Taiwan
- 01:18:44 Will AI make people irrelevant?
- 01:23:53 How will we reimagine governance?
- Producer: John Osterhoudt
