Words matter. These are the best Jaan Tallinn Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Giving the control over powerful AI to the highest bidder is unlikely to lead to the best world we can imagine.
It really sucks to be the number two intelligent species on this planet; you can just ask gorillas.
Healthcare is the only civil system where new technology makes prices go up instead of down.
Shaming people into being virtuous doesn’t change behaviour.
I used to have the very standard worldview. I can easily identify with people who see computers getting faster and smarter, and technology getting more and more beneficial, without seeing the other side.
Incentive schemes, whereby people who have done the most good for humanity are rewarded 20 years into the future, would create the expectation that doing long-term good is valuable.
Technology keeps progressing. Young people follow the curve. But as they get older, they get inertia, and they start deviating from that curve.
I was born behind the Iron Curtain, and I remember heated discussions about large-scale terra-forming projects, such as reversing the direction of the river Ob or putting up large reflectors into space to heat up Siberia.
Once computers can program, they basically take over technological progress because already, today, the majority of technological progress is run by software, by programming.
Once you acknowledge that human brains are basically made of atoms and acknowledge that atoms are governed by simple laws of physics, then there is no reasoning principle why computers couldn’t do anything that people are doing, and we don’t really see any evidence that this is not the case.
There is no shortage of embarrassing facts about healthcare, and people die every day in the U.S. due to preventable errors – would you fly planes if you knew several of them would drop out of the sky every day?
The main reason I backed DeepMind was strategic: I see my role as bridging the AI research and AI safety communities.
I myself am also a small investor in Slack, and one can count four to five IM platforms that were launched by Skype alumni alone.
Building advanced AI is like launching a rocket. The first challenge is to maximize acceleration, but once it starts picking up speed, you also need to focus on steering.
