Alignment problem. It was released just last week. He offers theoretical contributions to the industry documenting in his bestselling book the most human human outer rhythms to live by. In his new book, question such as if we continue to rely on Artificial Intelligence to solve our problems, whathappens when ai itself is the problem. Greenbergs last seen Computer Scientists tackling the obstacles of technological implication of an advanced new society that has become more like on technology. His work on Technology Leaders such as eli must once put the question in his 2000 book the most human human for his night table reading. In his new book the alignment problem is dependence on ai questions whether or not the system can help us or the systems simply are a replication of an inevitable human desire, how can we handle ontechnology. Here he argues that all these things make decisions for us, essentially we will be discussing a lot of the next hour and i want to ask your questions to watc
Brought to you by your television provider. Welcome to todays virtual program, from the Commonwealth Club of california. Im the clubs Vice President of media and your moderator for today. Wed like to thank our members, donors and supporters were making this and all of our programs possible. Were of course grateful and we welcome others joining us during these uncertain times. Today im pleased to be joined by brian christian, programmer and author of the new book the alignment problem, Machine Learning. Which was released last week. He discusses theoretical contributions documented in his bestselling book the most human humans and an outer of them to live by. Christians posing questions of if we continue to rely on Artificial Intelligence to solve our problems, what happens when ai itself is the problem. Hes a professor of philosophy and poetry, tackling the ethical and technological implications of a advanced society becomes more relianton technology. His work intersects elon musk in h
The Political Panel weighs in on that plus a new poll showing a real conundrum for voters in the story that blew me away, we will introduce you to a 15yearold business owner, a 15yearold business owner. All that and so much more on making money. Charles washington spending trillions of dollars again to help the economy, a lot of the economy has already come worrying back and in the process the rich have gotten even richer, everyone else seems to get more better and moreover blaming capitalism saying it did not curve the debt and come up with solution needed in the age of coronavirus. Affords headline says capitalism is failing us just when we need it most. In ap news headline, from the pope, marking capitalism has failed and pandemics means reform. Many of the critics of capitalism have never been fans but the jobs disappearing in 2020 is giving them a much bigger soapbox, is capitalism fading and how does the narrative change, lets ask a champion of capitalism, steve moore, they are c
Today. Our road map begins with Global Growth concerns. China posting the weakest gdp in 27 years aed my fallout from the trade war. Well wrap up the first week of earnings season, two names in focus, coke and American Express, both rallyi ining aheaf the bell. Rick perry set to leave trumps cabinet. He will join us live this hour going to start with that slowdown, china saying the economy grew 6 in q3 from a year ago, believed to be chinas slowest gain in nearly three decades. Markets here largely shrugging it off Industrial Production was up from the prior five to 58. Retail sales up from 75 back to 78 so kind of mixed. This one we can say, look, there is something for everybody. Fed can still cut. But im doing a lot of work on American Express this morning. Consumer is still strong consumer strong, business, corporate spend, as barry said, still a lot of negativity among ceos, extends to the election, negativity extends to china, european woes. Go back to the ibm call, we didnt talk
But these machines and in some sense, do. They have an explicit internal model welcome to hardtalk, of what their objective im stephen sackur. What is the most serious existential is and they can figure out how to achieve it. Threat facing humanity . So there might have the goal of winning a game of chess well, many of us might point and they can figure out how to do that and beat humans at it. To nuclear war or climate change. Learning what about that word, learning where does that fit . So these days, following actually but some of the greatest minds a recommendation by alan turing in the tech sector are looking in 1950, we built many of the ai in a very different direction. Artificial intelligence, system, not by programming them warned the physicist explicitly, but by training them. Stephen hawking, could spell the end of the human race. So we have general purpose learning algorithms that take examples my guest tonight is stuart russell, from the real world and then a globally reno