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When you think of AI, you know, an AI's gonna ruin the world, and you see, like, a Terminator,

The algorithm warning · The Social Dilemma (2020)

When you think of AI, you know, an AI's gonna ruin the world, and you see, like, a Terminator,

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and you see Arnold Schwarzenegger.

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1When you think of AI, you know, an AI's gonna ruin the world, and you see, like, a Terminator,
2and you see Arnold Schwarzenegger.
3I'll be back.
4You see drones, and you think, like, "Oh, we're gonna kill people with AI."
5And what people miss is that AI already runs today's world right now.
6Even talking about "an AI" is just a metaphor.
7At these companies like... like Google, there's just massive, massive rooms,
8some of them underground, some of them underwater, of just computers.
9Tons and tons of computers, as far as the eye can see.
10They're deeply interconnected with each other and running extremely complicated programs,
11sending information back and forth between each other all the time.
12And they'll be running many different programs, many different products on those same machines.
13Some of those things could be described as simple algorithms,
14some could be described as algorithms that are so complicated, you would call them intelligence.
15I like to say that algorithms are opinions embedded in code...
16and that algorithms are not objective.
17Algorithms are optimized to some definition of success.
18So, if you can imagine, if a... if a commercial enterprise builds an algorithm to their definition of success,
19it's a commercial interest.
20It's usually profit.
21You are giving the computer the goal state,
22"I want this outcome," and then the computer itself is learning how to do it.
23That's where the term "machine learning" comes from.
24And so, every day, it gets slightly better at picking the right posts in the right order so that you spend longer and longer in that product.
25And no one really understands what they're doing in order to achieve that goal.
26The algorithm has a mind of its own, so even though a person writes it,
27it's written in a way that you kind of build the machine, and then the machine changes itself.
28There's only a handful of people at these companies, at Facebook and Twitter and other companies...
29There's only a few people who understand how those systems work, and even they don't necessarily fully understand what's gonna happen with a particular piece of content.
30So, as humans, we've almost lost control over these systems.
31Because they're controlling, you know, the information that we see, they're controlling us more than we're controlling them.

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