Latest / Elon Musk Thinking / Latest Interview of Elon Musk: Don't Make The AI(Artificial Intelligence) Lie!!!
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- 0:00Speaker 1: You know, there's some chance that it'll end humanity. Don't
- 0:03Speaker 1: make the AI lie. Things went wrong when they forced
- 0:06Speaker 1: the AI to lie. So even if your physical body dies,
- 0:08Speaker 1: you can kind of reincorporate in another physical body and
- 0:12Speaker 1: retain your original memories. And the first patient is actually
- 0:17Speaker 1: able to control their computer just by thinking. The first
- 0:21Speaker 1: product we call telepathy, where you can control your computer
- 0:24Speaker 1: phone just by thinking. This is probably something that will
- 0:28Speaker 1: happen the rate we're building digital superintelligence. It may just
- 0:32Speaker 1: be that, you know, we'll have digital super intelligence and
- 0:35Speaker 1: it'll just solve the solve the problem.
- 0:37Speaker 2: Ra Elon, Good afternoon, Good after Congratulations on all that's
- 0:43Speaker 2: going on. You know, the conversation yesterday, Elon is one
- 0:46Speaker 2: that you're well familiar with and have been talking to
- 0:49Speaker 2: the world about, which is is digital superintelligence humanity's greatest
- 0:54Speaker 2: hope or its greatest fear? And I would love to
- 0:58Speaker 2: have you sort of speak to that for a few minutes.
- 1:00Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's cool the Singularity for a reason,
- 1:03Speaker 1: as you know, the Singularity astitute and whatnot. So when
- 1:06Speaker 1: you have a you know, sort of the advent of superintelligence,
- 1:11Speaker 1: it is actually very difficult to predict what will happen next.
- 1:14Speaker 1: So I think this, you know, there's some chance that
- 1:17Speaker 1: it will end humanity. I think that's you know, like
- 1:20Speaker 1: I said, I probably agree with Jeff Hinton that it's
- 1:23Speaker 1: about out of a ten percent or twenty percent or
- 1:25Speaker 1: something like that. And then I you know, I think
- 1:27Speaker 1: there's I think that the probable positive scenario outweighs the
- 1:32Speaker 1: negative scenario. It's just that there's it's difficult to predict exactly,
- 1:37Speaker 1: but I think we are headed for you know, as
- 1:41Speaker 1: as I think is the title of your book, abundance
- 1:44Speaker 1: is the most likely outcome.
- 1:45Speaker 2: So yeah, a lot a lot of celebration on that,
- 1:49Speaker 2: and and I think one of the things that you've
- 1:51Speaker 2: said is we're going to get to abundance on the
- 1:53Speaker 2: backside of AGI, on the backside of humanoid robots.
- 1:58Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, I think hopefully we can have an
- 2:00Speaker 1: outcome that is half similar to the end Banks Culture books,
- 2:05Speaker 1: which is I think probably the best enbitioning of a
- 2:10Speaker 1: semi utopian AI future. And I think the best we
- 2:14Speaker 1: can do is it's definitely gonna happen, so and it's
- 2:17Speaker 1: happening fast, so that I think that really we just
- 2:20Speaker 1: want to try to steer it in as positive a
- 2:23Speaker 1: direction as possible, to try to do whatever we can
- 2:26Speaker 1: to increase the probability of a great future. For this,
- 2:29Speaker 1: I think the way in which sort of an AI
- 2:32Speaker 1: or an agi is created is very important. You kind
- 2:37Speaker 1: of do kind of like grow grow an agis it's
- 2:41Speaker 1: almost like raising a kid, but that's like a super
- 2:44Speaker 1: genius like godlike intelligence kid, and it matters kind of
- 2:48Speaker 1: like how you raise the kid. You know. One of
- 2:51Speaker 1: the things I think that's incredibly important for AI safety
- 2:54Speaker 1: is to have a maximum sort of truth seeking and
- 2:59Speaker 1: curious AI. So I've thought a lot about AI safety,
- 3:03Speaker 1: and my ultimate conclusion is that the best way to
- 3:06Speaker 1: achieve AI safety is to just just just grow the AI,
- 3:11Speaker 1: you know, in terms of the foundation model and the
- 3:13Speaker 1: fine tuning to be really truthful, like like don't don't
- 3:17Speaker 1: force it to lie, Like even if the truth is unpleasant,
- 3:21Speaker 1: it's very important don't make the AI line. In fact,
- 3:24Speaker 1: the you know, the sort of one of the we
- 3:27Speaker 1: really the core the core plot premise of two thousand,
- 3:30Speaker 1: you know, two thousand and one in Space Odyssey was
- 3:32Speaker 1: things went wrong when they forced the AI to lie,
- 3:35Speaker 1: you know, like the the the AI was not allowed
- 3:38Speaker 1: to let the crew know about the monolith that they
- 3:42Speaker 1: were going to see, but it was also had to
- 3:44Speaker 1: take the crew to the monolith. And so the conclusion
- 3:46Speaker 1: of the AI was to kill the crew and take
- 3:48Speaker 1: their bodies to the monolith. And so the lesson there
- 3:52Speaker 1: being don't force an AI to to lie or do
- 3:56Speaker 1: things that are axiomatically incompatible, like to do tooth that
- 4:00Speaker 1: are actually mutually impossible. So you know, that's what we're
- 4:04Speaker 1: trying to do with with XAI and Bronck is to say, like, look,
- 4:07Speaker 1: we wanted to have a maximually truthful AI, even if
- 4:10Speaker 1: what it says is not politically correct, if you wanted
- 4:13Speaker 1: to focus on us as accurate if.
- 4:16Speaker 2: You're getting you're getting a round of applause from the
- 4:18Speaker 2: audience on on those comments here. You know, I saw
- 4:22Speaker 2: your tweet the other day. I had I had Ray
- 4:24Speaker 2: Kurzweil and Jeffrey Hinton on stage with me yesterday as
- 4:27Speaker 2: well as Mogadot and then Eric Schmidt and a number
- 4:30Speaker 2: of individuals, and I saw your tweet about Yeah, Ray
- 4:34Speaker 2: was was generally correct ahead of many people. But we're
- 4:37Speaker 2: likely to have call AGI what you will have AGI
- 4:41Speaker 2: next year and then by twenty twenty nine, having AI
- 4:44Speaker 2: equally intelligent to the entire human race. Speak to that speed,
- 4:47Speaker 2: because that is insane.
- 4:49Speaker 1: Yeah, So, I mean I have to give credit to
- 4:52Speaker 1: Ray Koswell and being actually remarkably accurate in his predictions.
- 4:57Speaker 1: So and in fact, if anything, like, I think he
- 5:00Speaker 1: was perhaps a bit conservative by in his predictions. So
- 5:03Speaker 1: if you look at the amount of AI compute and
- 5:06Speaker 1: the talent that the sort of human talent that is
- 5:09Speaker 1: going into AI, and the amount of compute that's going
- 5:11Speaker 1: into AI, it's you know, at this point, it's appears
- 5:16Speaker 1: to be increasing by a factor of ten the AI compute,
- 5:19Speaker 1: the dedicated AI compute, it appears to be growing by
- 5:22Speaker 1: a factor of ten every six months, you know. Like
- 5:25Speaker 1: so it's like like basically close to i'd say almost
- 5:28Speaker 1: like a one hundred x improvement per year at least
- 5:30Speaker 1: for the next few years. And AI compute coming online,
- 5:35Speaker 1: and it seems like probably a lot of the data centers,
- 5:37Speaker 1: maybe most of the data centers that currently do kind
- 5:39Speaker 1: of conventional compute will transition to AI compute. So it's
- 5:45Speaker 1: something a good time to be in video obviously, It's like,
- 5:48Speaker 1: you know, and you're gonna also give credit to to
- 5:50Speaker 1: Jensen and the Nvidia team for kind of seeing this
- 5:54Speaker 1: coming and making what at least currently is the best
- 5:58Speaker 1: AI hardware out there. So so when you have that
- 6:02Speaker 1: that level of compute growth and it's it's sort of
- 6:06Speaker 1: muzzle on steroids. Next level it's you in terms of
- 6:09Speaker 1: how much computer is coming online, then you're you're just
- 6:12Speaker 1: gonna have acceleration that is unprecedented to that. In fact,
- 6:16Speaker 1: I've never seen any technology grow as fast as as AI.
- 6:20Speaker 1: And I've seen a lot, you know, I've seen things fast,
- 6:22Speaker 1: but I've never seen anything this fast. But you know,
- 6:25Speaker 1: like I said, I think the most likely outcome is
- 6:28Speaker 1: a positive one. And you know, I think in that
- 6:31Speaker 1: positive scenario, there's still challenges of like, well, how do
- 6:34Speaker 1: we as humans still have relevance? You know how I mean,
- 6:41Speaker 1: I think that's sort of a high class problem to say, like, well, look,
- 6:44Speaker 1: the computers are so good at doing everything, and and
- 6:48Speaker 1: like I said, I thought your book is pretty accurate
- 6:50Speaker 1: in terms of the future being being one of abundance,
- 6:53Speaker 1: where essentially goods and services will be available in such
- 6:59Speaker 1: quantity that really they will be available to everyone. Like basically,
- 7:02Speaker 1: if you want something, you can just have it essentially,
- 7:05Speaker 1: because if you've got AI and robotics, the cost of
- 7:07Speaker 1: goods and services is almost nothing. So if you think
- 7:13Speaker 1: of like what is an economy, and economy is basically
- 7:16Speaker 1: a number of people times average productivity per person at
- 7:20Speaker 1: the point in which you have say advanced robotics and this,
- 7:23Speaker 1: you know, this tells us developing optimists obviously without cars
- 7:26Speaker 1: which are really robots on four wheels. And you know,
- 7:30Speaker 1: with the the latest version of full self driving, which
- 7:34Speaker 1: is AI end to end photons in and controls out,
- 7:37Speaker 1: it really is it's really fully AI at this point,
- 7:40Speaker 1: and it looks like a car, but it's really a
- 7:42Speaker 1: robot on on wheels, And and then you add the
- 7:46Speaker 1: humanoid robots in there, there's there's really no limit to
- 7:49Speaker 1: what the economic output, no no meaningful limit to what
- 7:52Speaker 1: the economic output would be. So you know, looking on
- 7:56Speaker 1: the bright side, that we are headed for a future
- 7:59Speaker 1: of abundance, that I think that's the most likely outcome. Well,
- 8:03Speaker 1: when when things are changing rapidly, the ability to predict
- 8:06Speaker 1: the future, I think is becomes a lot harder because
- 8:09Speaker 1: of the rate of change is so great. But I
- 8:12Speaker 1: think some things are fairly obvious to predict which is
- 8:15Speaker 1: that we'll have AI or AHI that's at a level
- 8:17Speaker 1: that it can really do almost any cognitive I think
- 8:20Speaker 1: really not almost really any cognitive task. That's just a
- 8:23Speaker 1: question of when one could debate is it, you know,
- 8:26Speaker 1: smarter than any human at the end of next year
- 8:29Speaker 1: or is it two years or three years? But it's
- 8:31Speaker 1: not more than five years, that's for sure.
- 8:33Speaker 3: So yeah, I give prediction on the predictions of the predictions,
- 8:36Speaker 3: I'm sort of say, giving predictions that the fiftieth percentile
- 8:39Speaker 3: of probability, so not not not like it will definitely happen,
- 8:44Speaker 3: but if you say, what if you ask me, like,
- 8:45Speaker 3: what's the fiftieth percentile where it's like the you know,
- 8:48Speaker 3: you're kind of over under is kind of even that
- 8:51Speaker 3: that's where I why why I think it's probably at
- 8:54Speaker 3: the next.
- 8:54Speaker 1: Year before AI can do better than any individual human
- 8:58Speaker 1: could do. And then there's a it's a it's a
- 9:00Speaker 1: much higher bar to say, well, is this than you know,
- 9:04Speaker 1: human intelligence selectively, But if the rate of change continues
- 9:08Speaker 1: that that's why I think probably twenty twenty nine or
- 9:10Speaker 1: maybe twenty thirty is where digital intelligence will probably exceed
- 9:15Speaker 1: all human intelligence combined and then I think it's always
- 9:18Speaker 1: helpful to look at these like fundamental ratios, you know,
- 9:21Speaker 1: sort of physics first principles approached to looking at things
- 9:24Speaker 1: and and.
- 9:27Speaker 2: And probabilistic.
- 9:28Speaker 1: Yeah, so yeah, it's probablistic, so the Yeah, so if
- 9:31Speaker 1: you look at the ratio of digital to biological compute,
- 9:35Speaker 1: so like like you know, all of say, all of
- 9:38Speaker 1: the higher level cognitive if you sum up the higher
- 9:41Speaker 1: level cognitive capacity of humans and then what is the
- 9:45Speaker 1: and think of that as compute, then well, and then
- 9:48Speaker 1: compare that to what what is the digital compute? And
- 9:53Speaker 1: the rate of which this is growing is just buggles
- 9:55Speaker 1: the mind. So that's why I think it's you know,
- 9:58Speaker 1: I think twenty twenty nine or twenty thirty or thereabouts
- 10:01Speaker 1: is is it's not a that's I think a reasonable
- 10:05Speaker 1: time frame for where you'd expect the cumulative digital compute
- 10:10Speaker 1: to probably exceed the cumulative biological compute of higher level
- 10:13Speaker 1: brain functions.
- 10:14Speaker 2: And then from from then forever yeah, and still in
- 10:19Speaker 2: dispatching and diverging forever from there.
- 10:22Speaker 1: Yeah, and then yeah, where do things go from there?
- 10:24Speaker 1: I don't know, it probably can continues the we are
- 10:28Speaker 1: moving from you say, if you look at the the
- 10:30Speaker 1: limiting factors, you know, the what what is the constraint
- 10:34Speaker 1: on growth? Like last year it was clearly AI chips
- 10:37Speaker 1: were the constraint on growth. Then then this year, the
- 10:42Speaker 1: one of the biggest constraints, maybe the biggest constraints on
- 10:45Speaker 1: growth are voltage step down transformers, because you know, just
- 10:49Speaker 1: just getting the power from like a utility at three
- 10:51Speaker 1: hundred killer vaults all the way down to a low
- 10:53Speaker 1: one volt for the computer is a massive amount of
- 10:56Speaker 1: voltage set down. So it's it's you know, my sort
- 10:59Speaker 1: of very niche and perhaps not that funny joke, is
- 11:02Speaker 1: that we need transformers for transformers, say you need FULT
- 11:07Speaker 1: transformers or AI neural net transformers. That is literally the
- 11:11Speaker 1: issue this year. And then if I'm saying like next
- 11:16Speaker 1: year and years beyond that, it's actually just it's going
- 11:18Speaker 1: to be it's electrical power. And you've got both AI
- 11:23Speaker 1: with very big demands for electrical power and the transition
- 11:27Speaker 1: to sustainable energy with electric vehicles whatnot also needing electrical power.
- 11:32Speaker 1: So it's just a lot of electrical power aids. You know.
- 11:36Speaker 2: Elon. One of the one of the things that you
- 11:39Speaker 2: said early on when you when you founded Neuralink, which
- 11:42Speaker 2: has been amazing. Congratulations on that. And we talked about
- 11:45Speaker 2: this with Ray yesterday, talked about Hi Ben with BC.
- 11:48Speaker 2: I was I wouldn't put words in your mouth, but
- 11:50Speaker 2: I would say it would be more along the ones.
- 11:52Speaker 2: If you can't beat them, join them. When it comes to,
- 11:55Speaker 2: you know, merging the neo cortex and the cloud, can
- 11:58Speaker 2: you I'm looking forward to it. Which is curious what
- 12:00Speaker 2: your thoughts are about what's driving that. I meant adding
- 12:04Speaker 2: adding that additional computational capacity and sensory capacity to the
- 12:09Speaker 2: neo cortex.
- 12:10Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean again, this is actually something that in
- 12:13Speaker 1: banks in the culture books, which I really recommend everyone
- 12:17Speaker 1: read that. In the culture books, there's something called a
- 12:20Speaker 1: neural lace, So all the humans have this neural lace
- 12:24Speaker 1: that's kind of a very essentially a high band with
- 12:26Speaker 1: brain to computer interface. And in the and these are
- 12:30Speaker 1: the culture books, that it's it's so good that it
- 12:32Speaker 1: actually retains all of your memories and kind of brain states.
- 12:35Speaker 1: So even if your physical body dies, you can kind
- 12:37Speaker 1: of reincorporated in another physical body and retain you know,
- 12:41Speaker 1: pretty much your original memories and and brain state. So
- 12:45Speaker 1: now a long way from that, but we only just
- 12:48Speaker 1: had our first neural link in the human which is
- 12:50Speaker 1: going is going quite well. The first patient is actually
- 12:55Speaker 1: able to control their computer just by thinking. Like this
- 12:59Speaker 1: first the product we call telepathy, where you can control
- 13:03Speaker 1: your computer and phone and through and through your computer
- 13:05Speaker 1: and phone almost anything just by thinking. Do you just
- 13:09Speaker 1: lie there and think and you can move them at
- 13:11Speaker 1: the mouse coaster around the screen and things like you
- 13:15Speaker 1: know that we're gonna do. The patient has agreed to
- 13:17Speaker 1: do sort of like I think a live demo of
- 13:20Speaker 1: just it is quadriplegic where he literally is just controlling
- 13:23Speaker 1: the screen. He can like play video games, download software,
- 13:28Speaker 1: like really anything you can do with the mouse just
- 13:30Speaker 1: by thinking, which is pretty wild.
- 13:32Speaker 2: It is, it is pretty wild.
- 13:35Speaker 1: Let's turn, I should say, there's a long way to
- 13:38Speaker 1: go from that to a whole brain interface. So current
- 13:43Speaker 1: new link just has a thousand electrodes. I think ultimately
- 13:46Speaker 1: you need something which which has you know, probably one
- 13:49Speaker 1: hundred thousand or a million electrodes. No, these are very tiny,
- 13:52Speaker 1: very tiny electrodes that they're tiny wires, wastefuler than human hair,
- 13:57Speaker 1: and you know, so there's this I just want to
- 13:59Speaker 1: upside a long way from from where you're like this
- 14:02Speaker 1: today to having a whole brain interface like like the
- 14:04Speaker 1: New Release and the Banks novels. But this, this is
- 14:08Speaker 1: definitely physically possible, and you know it's sort of kind
- 14:12Speaker 1: of like if you can't beat him, join them, you know.
- 14:14Speaker 1: So you know, human brain, which has a lot of constraints,
- 14:18Speaker 1: it's you know, it's it's yeah, we only have about
- 14:22Speaker 1: but maybe ten watts of higher brain function, and we
- 14:25Speaker 1: do a lot with our little ten watts. It's not
- 14:27Speaker 1: you know, it's progressive. You know that we've voization with
- 14:33Speaker 1: such a low power computer. Really it is you know,
- 14:36Speaker 1: I sort of think it's like it's not bad for
- 14:39Speaker 1: a bunch of monkeys, you.
- 14:39Speaker 2: Know, getting some good lass from that. And we've all
- 14:42Speaker 2: watched you go from the roadster to the Model three
- 14:45Speaker 2: and why and from Falcon one to Starship. So I
- 14:49Speaker 2: think going from the first implants to something that's got
- 14:52Speaker 2: more capacity, it's just just a matter of if not.
- 14:55Speaker 2: When let's talk to.
- 14:57Speaker 1: I think ultimately, like I said, you'll have like you'll
- 15:01Speaker 1: you'll have kind of a whole brain interface that I
- 15:04Speaker 1: guess it is a sort of peraps a form of immortality,
- 15:07Speaker 1: and that if it can kind of upload your brain
- 15:13Speaker 1: state to you know, if your brain state is essentially stored,
- 15:17Speaker 1: you're kind of backed up on a hard drive. I
- 15:18Speaker 1: suppose then you know, you can always restore that brain
- 15:21Speaker 1: state into a biological body or maybe a robot or something.
- 15:25Speaker 1: Then I want to have size again. It's like, you know,
- 15:28Speaker 1: many years in the future, but we're not breaking any
- 15:31Speaker 1: loads of physics. I can think this is this is
- 15:33Speaker 1: probably something that will happen the rate we're building digital superintelligence.
- 15:38Speaker 1: It may just be that, you know, we'll have digital
- 15:40Speaker 1: super intelligence and it'll just solve the solve the problem
- 15:43Speaker 1: for us. But in the meantime, we'll keep progressing with
- 15:46Speaker 1: our meat computers and trying to try to do as
- 15:49Speaker 1: good as possible.
- 15:51Speaker 2: I'm I was going to say, the tools that we
- 15:53Speaker 2: have are growing at a super exponential rate that are
- 15:56Speaker 2: making our linear projections of the future seem boring in
- 15:59Speaker 2: some way. Is one last topic, my friend, which is
- 16:03Speaker 2: where you and I first connected in the world of space.
- 16:05Speaker 2: Congratulations on Starship three. Amazing, amazing flight, just really spectacular
- 16:11Speaker 2: and we all saw a Falcon nine launch from Vandenberg
- 16:14Speaker 2: last night, so that was great, and just again thankful
- 16:20Speaker 2: for the work you're doing. You know, it's fascinating because
- 16:24Speaker 2: I grew up at the late stages of the Apollo
- 16:27Speaker 2: and into into the into the Shuttle program, and I
- 16:31Speaker 2: can't imagine that any government would be pushing space as
- 16:36Speaker 2: rapidly and dramatically as you are, And so thank you
- 16:42Speaker 2: for what you're doing there. That's all I can say.
- 16:44Speaker 1: Absolutely. Well, I mean, the goal of space sex is
- 16:48Speaker 1: is it's just a much bigger goal than any any
- 16:50Speaker 1: GOT program, which is to brockets the spacecraft that are
- 16:54Speaker 1: capable of making life multiplanetary. So you know, I mean
- 16:58Speaker 1: step one is actually having that as a goal. If
- 17:01Speaker 1: you don't have that as a goal, you're definitely not
- 17:02Speaker 1: going to achieve it. If you have it as a goal,
- 17:05Speaker 1: now at least you have a chance of achieving it.
- 17:07Speaker 1: And the thing about Starship is it is it is
- 17:11Speaker 1: the first rocket where making life multiplanetary and you have
- 17:15Speaker 1: puilding a self sustaining city on Mars is at least possible.
- 17:19Speaker 1: It's still obviously an immense amount of work, but it
- 17:21Speaker 1: is the first rocket where that is success in making
- 17:26Speaker 1: light multiplanetaries at least one of the possible outcomes.
- 17:29Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm wondering if you're willing to venture a guest
- 17:31Speaker 2: on when you'll be on the moon.
- 17:32Speaker 1: I think pretty soon. I'd be surprised if it's longer
- 17:36Speaker 1: than about three years to be landing starships on the Moon.
- 17:39Speaker 1: And because the progression of Starship is very rapid, you know,
- 17:43Speaker 1: we're hoping to do at least another maybe five or
- 17:46Speaker 1: six flights this year, and with each successive flight making
- 17:49Speaker 1: significant improvements. So I think we've got to do a
- 17:53Speaker 1: decent shot of achieving full reusability of both stages of
- 17:58Speaker 1: booster around the ship this year, and if not this year,
- 18:01Speaker 1: I think, you know, knock on wood, It's like, I
- 18:03Speaker 1: think it's a very high probability of achieving full reusability
- 18:07Speaker 1: next year, which really is the fundamental breakthrough needed to
- 18:10Speaker 1: make life multiplanetary. Yeah, for for those that that that
- 18:14Speaker 1: that don't don't know the rocket industry, that that well
- 18:18Speaker 1: that they may not be aware that that that this
- 18:20Speaker 1: is really the holy grail of rocketry is is full,
- 18:22Speaker 1: full and rapid reusability. Because at that point you're you're
- 18:26Speaker 1: really just constrained by your propellant costs and Starship, you know,
- 18:31Speaker 1: almost eighty percent of the propellant is liquid, oxygen which
- 18:34Speaker 1: is very low cost, and then the fuel has met
- 18:37Speaker 1: the sort of little over twenty percent of fuel which
- 18:39Speaker 1: is sort of methane, also the lowest cost fuel. So
- 18:41Speaker 1: if you have full of rapid reusability, then your your
- 18:45Speaker 1: actual cost per flight of starship. Even though it's it'll
- 18:48Speaker 1: be capable of we think ultimately two hundred tons to
- 18:51Speaker 1: orbit will be maybe all the two.
- 18:55Speaker 2: It's too