Better Ancestors | Pablos Holman | TEDxIIMSirmaur

Foreign ER is a very delightful and frustrating task. You communicate with the Machine by dividing the puzzles into very clear and logical steps and when you get even a one or a zero in the wrong place, the computer rejects it mercilessly, that process is mixed with a lot of head banging and repeated Until you get You realize exactly how ambiguous you were when you can clearly convey a logical progression, computers reward you by doing exactly what you wanted in the first place, you can feel elated if you can stand to listen to a computer programmer. tell you exactly what your code is doing machine learning is different, it gives us a way to make computers solve puzzles of unfathomable complexity, the puzzles that don't make enough sense to us to solve in a logical progression that we don't know what the rules are: we don't understand how to solve these puzzles.

You have machine learning algorithms that can find those solutions for us. We don't understand how they do it so that machine learning can help us. Algorithms need to learn what really matters to us. resolved means for us do we want the machines to tell us how to win at all costs or do we want the machine to take some of those costs into account? Computers have long been able to help us do what we already know how to do, but faster. Now they can help us do what we humans don't know how to do We are not very good at making decisions We almost always optimize for short term goals We have developed some amazing skills to make quick decisions when necessary but when it comes to bigger problems more time Horizons astonishing scale so our performance is much worse almost a million humans a year die of malaria we fail to save those lives not because we don't care but because our tools were not good enough guesses and superstitions, this is a very complex game that we have been losing now We can use the same set of tools that Alpha zero uses to win this game and save a million lives a year.

This is the untapped potential of the AI ​​toolset to help us make

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decisions to sustain ourselves. We are busy for the rest of our lives, living in a new Renaissance with extraordinary new tools to help humans create our own future. George Dyson told me this story once when he was three years old walking home with his father, a physicist named Friedman. Dyson when he found a broken fan belt lying on the road and George asked his father where a piece of the sun was, that's what Freeman said Friedman was a bedside protégé of Han, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist in history. discovered the carbon cycle that powers stars. and when he gave his acceptance speech he explained that stars have a life cycle very similar to animals, they are born, grow, go through a defined internal development and finally die to return the material from which they are made so that the new stars can live. . to an engineer the fan belts exist between the crankshaft and the water pump, to a physicist the fan belts exist briefly in the intervals between the stars, that's how George put it and we too live in a long evolution In the long run, your body's cells expend energy. to give them life they serve whatever purpose they can for the larger organism before we die we are made of energy and that is what creates our life we ​​serve whatever purpose we can for the larger organism before we die maybe that purpose is your family your community maybe be In all of human civilization, maybe there is a point, maybe there isn't, if there isn't, and you can get marijuana delivered by drone when you watch Netflix and give up, there is a point where we are all free to guess what it is what we are not.

We're going to make the same assumption, so in the meantime most of us are trying to do the best job we can to improve the world for humans, even humans have different guesses about what the point of achieving this certainly means doing the best job we can take Taking care of the world is shared by all of us, so in one way or another this is what humans have been doing since the beginning. Sometimes things are hard and you just have to provide for your family. Sometimes it is very difficult and you end up competing with other humans. for the same resources that can get pretty ugly sometimes humans face serious existential threats on an individual scale like tigers were even on the scale of civilization like smallpox did you know that 400 million people died of smallpox before we invented vaccination, even world wars or, in comparison, are they benign?

Some humans are lucky enough to stand on the shoulders of all those who came before them and add to the corpus of knowledge to discover something new. those in scientists, some humans are smart enough to put that discovery to use. inventors at that time humans evolve. beyond our biology we evolve with our minds we acquire a tool a potential force multiplier some people wonder if the new tool changes anything humans have ever done we can do it

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faster cheaper more efficiently in a more humane way these they are the entrepreneurs technology entrepreneurs when they succeed the destiny of the world takes another step forward together kinesis after that everyone else takes over nurses teachers CEOs see a pattern there Chefs truckers Uber drivers these are the operators we all contribute in some way to this progression and we can argue about which role is more important, but the truth is that we need all of them, we need all of these people and more.

We are scientists, inventors, entrepreneurs and operators. We are the people who will promote these ideas from their conception throughout their entire life cycle. create experiments to discover which ideas are better and we are the people with the greatest capacity to steal, that is why our work is so important, why we have such a tremendous responsibility, here are some of our greatest successes, our species, the greatest successes, vaccines, internal steam engines. combustion engines flights very long flights radio telephones computers with transistors this is a transistor that I cut in half with an ion beam and a scanning electron microscope notice how all of those are from the last 100 years or so Humanity is on a roll o we have reached its sharpest peak photography Fusion Fast neutron fission reactors in the entire history of humanity we are the humans endowed with more knowledge, more experience, more energy, more wealth, more superpowers and more responsibility, all these technologies are tools so we can demand our values ​​in the world, so we better be clear about what we want to achieve.

Do we need more dystopian warnings about how robots are going to turn us into gray goo? Do we need them to be transmitted in 4k to our palms? Do we need a few more subscriptions every month? What if it were the same amount of work to create an iPhone app to diagnose malaria or cancer as it was to create one to share selfies? What if it was the same amount of effort to eradicate a disease as it is to create a scooter rental company? What if we had the same amount of work? Could we make one pair of jeans without contaminating 940 gallons of fresh water?

What if we could give every human being on Earth as much energy as an American gets from a carbon-free education? What if we could make education as compelling as video games? What would happen if we could use 3D? print things that people would actually want to buy from industrial waste materials. What if we could turn trash into an energy source? What if we could reverse the damage of global warming? What if we could stop driving hundreds of species to extinction every day or, better yet, reverse it? if we could lift another half billion people out of extreme poverty, the last half billion, none of those things are inevitable, but they are all possible and some will even happen in our lifetime, these are some of the extraordinary opportunities in technology, our contributions to the long evolution of humanity. where I grew up in Alaska, we had less people in Siberia, but the same way I got an Apple II Plus in 1979, this thing literally had less RAM than your airpods, but it lit up my imagination.

No one around knew more about computers than me. Imagine trying to talk to your grandparents about blockchain and sharp. It is an understatement to say that there was no technology community. I had to read magazines. I had a library to discover what was happening in Silicon Valley. I eventually managed to get to arpanet, a sort of predecessor to the Internet, and got my first taste of joining a community that could appreciate the potential of these technologies. Silicon Valley of the 80s and 90s was an extraordinary place, it seemed like everyone knew the secret, we knew that these computers gave us superpowers and we were all trying to come up with ideas about how we could put them into practice and the most important thing was that you could have this kind of conversations with anyone, no matter how crazy your idea was, they would give you the benefit of the doubt, everyone would try to help you. and do it better, that was chapter one.

Now Silicon Valley has been eroded by opportunists who came for the gold rush. They are playing a different game by using all of these technologies to play a game of Monopoly for adults, turning each of us into their product. Venture capital has really become software capital that creates virtually no real technology, there are only two types of companies that refer to their customers as users, drug dealers and software dealers, just like drugs there are many , there are many limits to the number of problems that can be solved. software, that's chapter two, chapter three, that's why we're here to learn the lessons we can from where Silicon Valley was successful in building on this around the world to expand our ability to create new technologies, bring them to the world and solve problems on a broader level. scale, we are creating our own virtual Silicon Valley, a community where we can have meaningful conversations about the implications for these technologies and their impacts on the world.

We can do it? We should do it? When you learn to internalize all those non-linear graphs. To reason your way toward your beliefs To embrace technology as tools and join a community of people who can meaningfully contribute to the conversation about shaping the future In many communities people are content to simply speculate about how everything can go wrong together, we have to speculate on how everything might work out what possibilities might exist for humans after we achieve those things this planet certainly is an eternal I have to help start the blue origin for Jeff Bezos we were trying to figure out how to build spaceships what if the Humans could have a lasting presence in space.

What if we could set the stage for our descendants to populate the universe? What if billions of human lives and human souls could prosper? It sounds almost too much to imagine, but imagination is what humans are exceptionally good at for most people on Earth. They don't have many choices to make about what to work on, they have to do everything they can to keep everyone fed, healthy and safe. Most of us here are no longer worried about these types of problems. We inherited a fairly rich civilization. I became rich enough to stop worrying about acute existential threats to the people around us.

We have the opportunity to level up. We have the opportunity to work with the humans who are yet to come. We have the opportunity to become better

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. I hope you have an idea of ​​how I. Think about the world. What I see is possible. I want you to know something. All those technologies that I referred to today in my talk are real. Exist. We have invented them. We have done research to prove their work. possibilities right under our noses that we can build and implement and all we have to do is get to work, so thank you