Last week, Jeff Bezos canceled the Washington Post editorial board’s plan to endorse Kamala Harris. Are tech billionaires hedging their bets in case Donald Trump wins? Then, Miles Brundage, a former OpenAI senior adviser on artificial general intelligence readiness, stops by to tell us how his old company is doing when it comes to being ready for superintelligence, and whether we should all keep saving for retirement. And finally, David Yaffe-Bellany, a Times technology reporter, joins us to explore the rise of Polymarket, a crypto-powered betting platform, and discuss whether prediction markets can tell us who is going to win the election.
Guests:
Miles Brundage, former OpenAI senior adviser for A.G.I. readiness.
David Yaffe-Bellany, technology reporter for The New York Times.
Additional Reading:
Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and the Billions of Ways to Influence an Election
Miles Brundage’s on Why He’s Leaving OpenAI
The Crypto Website Where the Election Odds Swing in Trump’s Favor
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Dr. Miles Brundage, Head of Policy Research at OpenAI, joins Jon Krohn this week to discuss AI model production, policy, safety, and alignment. Tune in to hear him speak on GPT-3, DALL-E, Codex, and CLIP as well.
In this episode you will learn:
• Miles’ role as Head of Policy Research at OpenAI [4:35]
• OpenAI's DALL-E model [7:20]
• OpenAI's natural language model GPT-3 [30:43]
• OpenAI's automated software-writing model Codex [36:57]
• OpenAI’s CLIP model [44:01]
• What sets AI policy, AI safety, and AI alignment apart from each other [1:07:03]
• How A.I. will likely augment more professions than it displaces them [1:12:06]
Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/597
In the inaugural TWiML Live, Sam Charrington is joined by Amanda Askell (OpenAI), Anima Anandkumar (NVIDIA/CalTech), Miles Brundage (OpenAI), Robert Munro (Lilt), and Stephen Merity to discuss the controversial recent release of the OpenAI GPT-2 Language Model.
We cover the basics like what language models are and why they’re important, and why this announcement caused such a stir, and dig deep into why the lack of a full release of the model raised concerns for so many.
In this episode of Eye on AI, I talk to Miles Brundage, who studies the societal impacts of artificial intelligence and works on the policy team of OpenAI, the nonprofit A.I. research company founded by Elon Musk. When I spoke to Miles, he was a research fellow at the University of Oxford's Future of Humanity Institute, where he remains an associate. We talked about the policy side of AI security and whether he is optimistic that regulations can steer machine learning applications away from the nightmare scenarios popularly imagined. I hope you find Miles as interesting as I did.
