Podcast appearances and mentions of scott phoenix

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Response to Dileep George: AGI safety warrants planning ahead, published by Steve Byrnes on July 8, 2024 on The AI Alignment Forum. (Target audience: Dileep George himself, and anyone coming from a similar place.) Dileep George is a researcher working at the intersection of AI and neuroscience. He started his career by co-founding Numenta in 2005 with Jeff Hawkins (while a Stanford PhD student), then he left to co-found Vicarious in 2010 with D. Scott Phoenix, and moved to DeepMind in 2022 when DeepMind acquired Vicarious. Dileep was recently interviewed by Daniel Faggella on his "The Trajectory" podcast: YouTube, Apple podcasts, X/Twitter. It's a fun interview that touched on many topics, most of which I'll ignore, in favor of one very important action-relevant disagreement between Dileep and myself. …And this is the point where everyone these days seems to assume that there are only two possible reasons that anyone would ever bring up the topic of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) safety in conversation: The person is advocating for government regulation of large ML training runs …or the person is advocating against government regulation of large ML training runs. But, no! That's not my disagreement! That's not why I'm writing this post!! Quite the contrary, I join Dileep in being basically unenthusiastic about governmental regulation of large ML training runs right now. Instead, this post is advocating for Differential Intellectual Progress within technical AI research of the type that Dileep is doing - and more specifically, I'm advocating in favor of figuring out a technical approach to sculpting AGI motivations in docile and/or prosocial directions (a.k.a. "solving the technical alignment problem") before figuring out the exact data structures and parameter-updating rules that would constitute an AGI's ability to build and query a powerful world-model. The first half of this post (§1-2) will try to explain what I'm talking about, what it would entail, and why I think it's critically important. The second half of this post (§3) is more specifically my pessimistic response to Dileep's suggestion that, as AGI is gradually developed in the future, people will be able to react and adapt to problems as they arise. I really think Dileep is a brilliant guy with the best of intentions (e.g. he's a signatory on the Asilomar AI Principles). I just think there are some issues that he hasn't spent much time thinking through. I hope that this post will help. Post outline: Section 1 lists some areas of agreement and disagreement between Dileep and me. In particular, we have a giant area of agreement in terms of how we expect future AGI algorithms to work. Our massive common ground here is really why I'm bothering to write this post at all - it makes me hopeful that Dileep & I can have a productive exchange, and not just talk past each other. Section 2 argues that, for the kind of AGI that Dileep is trying to build, there's an unsolved technical alignment problem: How do we set up this kind of AGI with the motivation to behave in a docile and/or prosocial way? Section 3 is my pessimistic push-back on Dileep's optimistic hope that, if AGI is developed gradually, then we can regulate or adapt to problems as they arise: Section 3.1 lists some big obvious societal problems that have been around for a long time, but nevertheless remain unsolved, along with generic discussions of some underlying challenges that have prevented them from being solved, and why those challenges may apply to AGI too. Section 3.2 dives more specifically into the question of whether we can "keep strong AI as a tool, not a successor", as Dileep hopes. I think it sounds nice but will be impossible to pull off. Section 3.3 comments that, even if we could react and adapt to AGI given enough time - an assum...

On this episode of the Beat Club Podcast we chop it up with Young Jeezy's personal audio-engineer and the owner of Phoenix Down Recording...John Scott! Beatclubpodcast.com #whereproducersareheard Upload your beats and get heard!

On this episode of the Beat Club Podcast we chop it up with Young Jeezy's personal audio-engineer and the owner of Phoenix Down Recording...John Scott! Beatclubpodcast.com #whereproducersareheard Upload your beats and get heard!

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Scott Phoenix, founder of artificial intelligence startup Vicarious, to talk about the dawn of the robot age (4:30), the “last invention” (6:05), replicating the human brain (8:55), putting robots in the wild (10:00), how he got into AI (11:15), why he’s not 500 years too early (12:20), why Elon Musk is wrong (13:15), having Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos as investors (16:55), not wanting to be an investment banker (18:05), launching a Y combinator startup (19:00), AI’s evolution (20:10), solving Captcha’s (22:05), understanding how the brain works (25:40), why general AI could change everything (28:10), the danger of bias (29:50), in-home robots (33:45), and what society looks like when AI takes over (36:10). See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Scott Phoenix founded his first startup at age 16. By age 19 or 20, he got interested in Artificial Intelligence ("AI") because, according to Scott, "of all the things a person could work on, if you actually figure out how to build the first human-level AI, then you’ve solved all the other problems. You could have the AI then help you to solve any problem that a human could solve.” Scott started a few companies in between his 16th year and the founding of Vicarious -- his company that's "on a mission to build the next generation of artificial intelligence algorithms." He says that solving a very large problem is a key to his motivation around Vicarious. "Having a company whose core purpose in life is what I’m on fire to do and whose impacts would be really groundbreaking is something that makes me feel way more alive than any of the things that I’ve done before Vicarious." Scott's thoughts on this topic, his talent, his team, and his intense commitment have attracted the attention of investors including Mark Zuckerberg, Peter Thiel, Jeff Bezos, Ashton Kutcher, Marc Benioff, and a host of other internationally regarded leaders in tech. “We have a moral imperative to build this invention b/c the second we do it will have tremendous benefits to society. Every day we don’t have it, there are a tremendous number of things that go wrong that wouldn’t go wrong if we had really smart AIs to help us”

In this interview, Scott Phoenix, Co-Founder of Vicarious discusses World Class IT Principle One, People, and Principle Two, Infrastructure. Some of the topics discussed include: The Artificial General Intelligence differs from Artificial Narrow Intelligence How Vicarious is applying cognitive science to build next generation general intelligence algorithms How AI may replace more jobs than it creates, and new economic and social constructs that could ease the societal shift Vicarious’s decision to prioritize social good over investor returns, and why more companies should do the same How Vicarious assembled an all-star group of investors including Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, and more Education and if entrepreneurship can be taught in the classroom The balance between the promise and peril of AI World’s Fair style demonstrations of AI, including the recent AlphaGo win and Vicarious’s 2013 cracking of CAPTCHA How Scott thinks about staffing, and how Vicarious’s bold mission acts as a magnet for top talent

Pipebomb radio welcomes back Wrestling Superstar Scott Phoenix to the show as he updates his fans and the world about what he has been up to since his return to wrestling recently. Find out what Scott's plans are for his next move in wrestling. Also we get a visit from IHWE Boss David Fuller who makes his return to Pipebomb Radio as well to talk to us about IHWE's upcoming Show Old School hustle. It is a night of returns and surprises on the next Pipebomb Radio so do not miss a moment of these two great interviews. 

#PipebombRadio100 TONIGHT at 10pm CST/8PM PST. From Bruno Sammartino to Blackjack Mulligan, Ivan Koloff, Ken Shamrock, Booker T, Kevin Von Erich, and many more. Pipebomb Radio over the past years have interviewed some of the greatest professional wrestling legends this world has to offer. Along with them we have spoken to the very future of professional wrestling including names like ROH World Champion Michael Elgin, Cedric Alexander, Houston Carson, Raymond Rowe, and Scott Phoenix just to name a few. Trainers like Bill Anderson, Danny Cage, Luke Hawx, and Rudy Boy Gonzalez! Tonight we celebrate 100 episodes of Pipebomb Radio with special guests, surprises, and much more!rises, and much more!

Tonight on Pipebomb Radio, with only 5 days before NWA Elite's HUGE Supershow... Professional Wrestling Veteran, John Saxon along with his son Elite GM, Sean Saxon will be our guest's.  Going into the triple threat Elite Heavyweight Championship Steel Cage match vs Andy Dalton and Stan Sweetan(c) with Scott Phoenix as special guest referee, what will John have to say about having to compete in a area where the chances of winning are slim? How does Elite GM Sean Saxon feel about the position of power he obtains with his father being on the same roster that he overlooks? We will speak with them about all that and so much more tonight on Pipebomb Radio! Make sure to call into the show with your questions at 347-202-0399.