Re: Fwd: Stuart Russell on "Provably beneficial AI"

[Robert <http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert>]

 > From: Alexander  <http://www.umass.edu/~a>
 > Date: Mon, 25 May 2020 10:58:19 -0400
 >
 > Thought you might be interested in this.

Thanks.

Had trouble with my email, and it looks like this already happened.

Hope it was good!

 > ---------- Forwarded message ---------
 > From: Shlomo Zilberstein <http://www.cs.umass.edu/~shlomo>
 > Date: Mon, May 25, 2020 at 8:31 AM
 > Subject: Stuart Russell on "Provably beneficial AI"
 > To: <http://www.cs.umass.edu/~seminars>, <http://www.cs.umass.edu/~equate>
 > 
 > If you are looking for some intellectual stimulation, Stuart Russell (UC
 > ) will be giving a Turing lecture
 > on Tuesday, May 26, 11am (EST).
 > 
 > Title: Provably beneficial AI
 > 
 > To register go to
 > https://www.turing.ac.uk/events/turing-lecture-provably-beneficial-ai
 > 
 > Abstract:
 > It is reasonable to expect that AI capabilities will eventually exceed
 > those of humans across a range of real-world-decision making
 > scenarios. Should this be a cause for concern, as Elon Musk, Stephen
 > Hawking, and others have suggested? While some in the mainstream AI
 > community dismiss the issue, Professor Russell will argue instead that
 > a fundamental reorientation of the field is required. Instead of
 > building systems that optimise arbitrary objectives, we need to learn
 > how to build systems that will, in fact, be beneficial for us.
 > 
 > In this talk, he will show that it is useful to imbue systems with
 > explicit uncertainty concerning the true objectives of the humans they
 > are designed to help. This uncertainty causes machine and human
 > behaviour to be inextricably (and game-theoretically) linked, while
 > opening up many new avenues for research. The ideas in this talk are
 > described in more detail in his new book, "Human Compatible: AI and
 > the Problem of Control" (Viking/Penguin, 2019).
 >