I have been thinking about this question for several months: what if AI continues to progress towards and beyond our abilities in areas where it…
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On May 31st, 2023, a BBC web page headlined: “AI ‘godfather’ Yoshua Bengio feels ‘lost’ over life’s work.” However, this is a statement I never…
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The capabilities of AI systems have steadily increased with deep learning advances for which I received a Turing Award alongside Geoffrey Hinton (University of Toronto)…
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I have been hearing many arguments from different people regarding catastrophic AI risks. I wanted to clarify these arguments, first for myself, because I would…
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Scenarios giving rise to potentially rogue AIs, from intential genocidal behavior of some humans to unintentional catastrophe arising because of AI misalignment.
Comments closedThere have recently been lots of discussions about the risks of AI, whether in the short term with existing methods or in the longer term…
Comments closedI recently signed an open letter asking to slow down the development of giant AI systems more powerful than GPT-4 –those that currently pass the…
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Co-written with my PhD student Edward J. Hu. Scaling seems to work really well. We must be cautious in pursuing research directions that build knowledge…
Comments closed(see gflownet tutorial and paper list here) I have rarely been as enthusiastic about a new research direction. We call them GFlowNets, for Generative Flow…
Comments closedWe sometimes come across catchy headlines about AI that can scare or excite us, such as “By the middle of this century, artificial intelligence will…
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