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From the Ted Talk by Max Tegmark: How to get empowered, not overpowered, by AI

Unscramble the Blue Letters


(Applause)

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(Laughter)

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Open Cloze


(Applause)

Alright, now raise your hand if your computer has ever crashed.

(Laughter)

Wow, that's a lot of hands. Well, then you'll appreciate this principle that we should ______ much more in AI safety research, because as we put AI in ______ of even more decisions and infrastructure, we need to figure out how to transform today's buggy and hackable _________ into robust AI systems that we can really trust, because otherwise, all this _______ new technology can malfunction and harm us, or get hacked and be turned against us. And this AI safety work has to include work on AI value alignment, because the real threat from AGI isn't malice, like in _____ _________ movies, but __________ — AGI _____________ goals that just aren't aligned with ours. For example, when we humans drove the West African black _____ _______, we didn't do it because we were a bunch of evil __________ haters, did we? We did it because we were smarter than them and our goals weren't aligned with theirs. But AGI is by definition smarter than us, so to make sure that we don't put ourselves in the position of those rhinos if we create AGI, we need to figure out how to make ________ understand our goals, adopt our goals and retain our _____.

Solution


  1. awesome
  2. machines
  3. rhinoceros
  4. competence
  5. goals
  6. invest
  7. accomplishing
  8. hollywood
  9. charge
  10. rhino
  11. computers
  12. extinct
  13. silly

Original Text


(Applause)

Alright, now raise your hand if your computer has ever crashed.

(Laughter)

Wow, that's a lot of hands. Well, then you'll appreciate this principle that we should invest much more in AI safety research, because as we put AI in charge of even more decisions and infrastructure, we need to figure out how to transform today's buggy and hackable computers into robust AI systems that we can really trust, because otherwise, all this awesome new technology can malfunction and harm us, or get hacked and be turned against us. And this AI safety work has to include work on AI value alignment, because the real threat from AGI isn't malice, like in silly Hollywood movies, but competence — AGI accomplishing goals that just aren't aligned with ours. For example, when we humans drove the West African black rhino extinct, we didn't do it because we were a bunch of evil rhinoceros haters, did we? We did it because we were smarter than them and our goals weren't aligned with theirs. But AGI is by definition smarter than us, so to make sure that we don't put ourselves in the position of those rhinos if we create AGI, we need to figure out how to make machines understand our goals, adopt our goals and retain our goals.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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Important Words


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