Max Tegmark: How to get empowered, not overpowered, by AI
麦克斯 · 泰格马克: 如何让人工智能赋予我们力量,而非受控于它
Max Tegmark is driven by curiosity, both about how our universe works and about how we can use the science and technology we discover to help humanity flourish rather than flounder. Full bio
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of cosmic history,
have begun gazing out into the cosmos
开始用它们的望远镜,
is vastly grander
小到足以被忽视,
imperceptibly small perturbation
宇宙也没了生命。
something inspiring,
一些振奋人心的事,
有着前所未有的潜能
we're developing has the potential
而是持续了数十亿年;
but for billions of years,
much of this amazing cosmos.
甚至是在整个浩瀚的宇宙中。
称之为 “生命 1.0”,
anything during its lifetime.
也不会学到什么东西。
because we can learn,
因为我们能够学习,
new software into our brains,
装了一个新的软件,
its software but also its hardware
它的软件,甚至还可以创造其硬件。
has already made us "Life 2.1,"
已经让我们走进了 “生命 2.1”,
pacemakers and cochlear implants.
心脏起搏器以及耳蜗植入技术。
at our relationship with technology, OK?
人类和科技的关系吧!
was both successful and inspiring,
很成功,令人备受鼓舞,
use technology wisely,
对于使用科技的智慧,
that our ancestors could only dream of.
祖先们只能想象的事情。
鼓舞人心的旅程,
more powerful than rocket engines,
东西所推动着,
aren't just three astronauts
journey into the future
一起走向未来的
that just as with rocketry,
这就像是火箭学一样,
our technology powerful.
拥有强大的力量是不够的。
if we're going to be really ambitious,
雄心壮志,就应当想出
for artificial intelligence:
我们先来谈谈这三点:
and the destination.
to accomplish complex goals,
biological and artificial intelligence.
和人工智能都包含进去。
the silly carbon-chauvinism idea
碳沙文主义的观点,
你就一定有着肉身。
if you're made of meat.
of AI has grown recently.
在近期的发展十分惊人。
机器人还不能走路呢。
自动飞行的火箭了。
生成仿真面貌了,
说出你从未说过的话。
saying stuff that you never said.
took 3,000 years of human Go games
AlphaZero 就掌握了人类三千多年的
成了全球最厉害的围棋手。
player by just playing against itself.
wasn't that it crushed human gamers,
不是它击垮了人类棋手,
handcrafting game-playing software.
手工打造了下棋软件。
not just in Go but even at chess,
轻松战胜了人类的人工智能研究者们,
就开始致力于国际象棋研究。
really begs the question:
人工智能进步,让大家不禁想问:
landscape of tasks,
how hard it is for AI to do each task
人工智能要把每一项工作
what AI can do today.
人工智能所达到的水平。
as AI improves,
海平面会上升,
going on here in the task landscape.
有着类似全球变暖的后果。
is to avoid careers at the waterfront --
从事那些近海区的工作——
automated and disrupted.
迟早要被自动化取代。
bigger question as well.
to flood everything,
最终能胜任所有的工作?
of artificial general intelligence --
(Artificial general intelligence)——
of AI research since its inception.
人工智能研究最终的圣杯。
that humans can do better than machines,"
人类可以做得比机器好的。”
that we'll never get AGI.
to have some human jobs
保留一些人类的工作,
and purpose with our jobs,
带给人类收入和生活目标,
transform life as we know it
都会转变我们对生命的认知,
the most intelligent.
上升到 AGI 的高度,
将会由人工智能来引领,而非人类,
mainly not by humans but by AI,
could be way faster
将会进行得非常迅速,
and development timescale of years,
典型人类研究和发展,
of an intelligence explosion
那就是智能爆炸,
intelligence far behind,
as superintelligence.
like Rodney Brooks,
如罗德尼 · 布鲁克斯 (Rodney Brooks),
for hundreds of years.
founder Demis Hassabis,
创始人德米斯 · 哈萨比斯(Demis Hassabis)
it happen much sooner.
that most AI researchers
大部分的人工智能研究者
get AGI within decades,
在有生之年就能看到,
那么接下来呢?
都能做得比人好,
and cheaper than us?
又该扮演怎样的角色?
that can do everything we can do
让它来帮助我们做一切事情,
that makes all humans obsolete,
让全人类都被淘汰的机器,
embarrassingly lame.
in the spirit of TED.
带着 TED 的精神。
high-tech future
真正鼓舞人心的高科技未来,
of our rocket metaphor: the steering.
第二部分:操控。
人工智能帮助人类未来更加繁盛,
rather than flounder?
(Future of Life Institute)。
旨在促进有益的科技使用,
beneficial technology use,
for the future of life to exist
就是希望生命的未来能够存在,
就是因为科技。
is better than the Stone Age.
a really inspiring high-tech future ...
一个非常鼓舞人心的高科技未来……
关于智慧的赛跑——
power of our technology
便是我们不断成长的科技力量
with which we manage it.
不断成长的智慧。
a change of strategy
has been learning from mistakes.
往往都是从错误中学习的。
screwed up a bunch of times --
又一不小心搞砸了很多次——
the seat belt and the airbag,
和安全气囊,
像是核武器和 AGI,
like nuclear weapons and AGI,
is a lousy strategy,
似乎是个比较糟糕的策略,
补救要好得多;
rather than reactive;
right the first time
the only time we'll get.
没有第二次机会。
sometimes people tell me,
有时候有人告诉我。
反自动化观点的人)在制造恐慌。“
call safety engineering.
我们称之为安全工程。
部署阿波罗 11 号任务之前,
the Apollo 11 mission,
everything that could go wrong
所有可能出错的状况,
易燃易爆的太空舱里,
on top of explosive fuel tanks
where no one could help them.
一个无人能助的境遇。
the safety engineering
应该采取的策略。
I think we should take with AGI.
to make sure it goes right.
然后避免它的发生。
we've organized conferences,
我们组织了几场大会,
AI researchers and other thinkers
和其他有想法的专业人士,
从而确保人工智能对人类有益。
we need to keep AI beneficial.
was in Asilomar, California last year
去年在加州的阿西洛玛举行,
by over 1,000 AI researchers
人工智能研究者,以及核心企业的
about three of these principles.
其中的三项原则。
and lethal autonomous weapons.
以及致命的自动化武器出现。
can be used for new ways of helping people
用新的方式来帮助人们,
对我们造成伤害。
are much more likely to be used
than for new ways of killing people,
而非带来新的杀人方法,
化学家很努力——
and chemists pushed hard --
and chemical weapons.
and ban lethal autonomous weapons.
试图指责和禁止致命的自动化武器。
人工智能会议的原则是,
AI-fueled income inequality.
由人工智能引起的收入不平等。
the economic pie dramatically with AI
人工智能发展出一块经济蛋糕,
how to divide this pie
if your computer has ever crashed.
你的电脑有死机过的,请举手。
this principle
in AI safety research,
以确保对人工智能安全性的研究,
of even more decisions and infrastructure,
更多决策以及基础设施时,
today's buggy and hackable computers
会出现程序错误以及有漏洞的电脑,
that we can really trust,
就会出现故障,反而伤害到我们,
can malfunction and harm us,
has to include work on AI value alignment,
必须包含对人工智能价值观的校准,
from AGI isn't malice,
通常并非出于恶意——
好莱坞电影中表现的那样,
that just aren't aligned with ours.
与我们的目标背道而驰。
the West African black rhino extinct,
西非的黑犀牛灭绝时,
of evil rhinoceros haters, did we?
且痛恨犀牛的家伙,对吧?
we were smarter than them
只是因为我们比它们聪明,
ourselves in the position of those rhinos
自己落到了黑犀牛的境遇,
to make machines understand our goals,
让机器明白我们的目标,
并一直跟随我们的目标。
of our rocket metaphor: the destination.
第三部分:目的地。
that almost nobody talks about --
显而易见却无人问津——
on short-term AI challenges.
聚焦于短期的人工智能挑战。
正在试图建造 AGI,
以及经济需求所带动,
are we hoping for if we succeed?
希望能创造出怎样的未来社会呢?
我们做了一次观点投票,
我们能打造出超级人工智能:
want us to build superintelligence:
比我们聪明的人工智能,
than us in all ways.
was that we should be ambitious
我们应该更有野心,
大家就各持己见了。
about who or what should be in charge.
who want it to be just machines.
让机器主导就好了。
about what the role of humans should be,
大家的意见简直就是大相径庭,
at possible futures
去看看这些可能的未来,
to steer toward, alright?
metaphorical journey into the future.
人类进入未来的这个旅程。
of my AI colleagues like
很喜欢的一个选择就是
and keep it under human control,
并确保它被人类所控制,
technology and wealth
警告过我们,
and absolute power corrupts absolutely,
绝对的权力终将带来绝对的腐败,
we humans just aren't smart enough,
我们人类就是还不够聪明,
moral qualms you might have
the superintelligence could outsmart us,
能够在智慧上超越我们,
who are fine with AI taking over
让人工智能来操控一切也无可厚非,
are our worthy descendants,
配得上成为我们的后代,
have adopted our best values
人工智能汲取了我们最好的价值观,
tricking us into anthropomorphizing them?
让我们误以为它们有人性?
who don't want human extinction
看到人类灭绝的人,
of those two high-tech options,
都不是你所希望的,
that low-tech is suicide
beyond today's technology,
远远超越今天的科技,
is going to go extinct,
we're going to get taken out
还是超级火山爆发,
that better technology could have solved.
由更好的科技来解决的问题。
our cake and eating it ...
坐享其成……
are aligned with ours?
愿意和我们并肩作战的 AGI?
has called "friendly AI,"
“友善的人工智能” 就是如此,
it could be awesome.
experiences like disease, poverty,
如疾病,贫穷,
the freedom to choose
境遇中去选择——
of positive experiences --
the masters of our own destiny.
is complicated,
expect AGI within decades,
AGI 能在未来十年内实现,
into this unprepared,
准备好去面对它们,
the biggest mistake in human history --
最大的一个错误——
global dictatorship
全球独裁主义变成现实,
surveillance and suffering,
不平等监控和苦难,
where everybody's better off:
人人都会受益的未来,
and free to live out their dreams.
能自由地去实现他们的梦想。
that's politically right or left?
是左派还是右派?
with strict moral rules,
严格道德准则的社会,
享乐主义社会,
不在运转的火人盛会?
forests and lakes,
some of those atoms with the computers,
重新排列组成新的原子,
我们就能轻而易举地建立这些社会,
build all of these societies
to choose which one they want to live in
想要生活在怎样的社会里,
自身智慧的限制,
be limited by our intelligence,
for this would be astronomical --
about our future,
is guaranteed to be beneficial,
as a mantra over and over and over again
圣歌一般,不断默念,
驶向自我消亡的结局。
towards our own obsolescence.
to steer our technology
the age of amazement,
赞颂这令人惊奇的时代,
in becoming not overpowered
让科技赋予我们力量,
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Max Tegmark - Scientist, authorMax Tegmark is driven by curiosity, both about how our universe works and about how we can use the science and technology we discover to help humanity flourish rather than flounder.
Why you should listen
Max Tegmark is an MIT professor who loves thinking about life's big questions. He's written two popular books, Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality and the recently published Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, as well as more than 200 nerdy technical papers on topics from cosmology to AI.
He writes: "In my spare time, I'm president of the Future of Life Institute, which aims to ensure that we develop not only technology but also the wisdom required to use it beneficially."
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