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Wojciech Zaremba — What Could Make AI Conscious?

2021/6/3
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Wojciech joins us to talk the principles behind OpenAI, the Fermi Paradox, and the future stages of developments in AGI.


Wojciech Zaremba is a co-founder of OpenAI, a research company dedicated to discovering and enacting the path to safe artificial general intelligence. He was also Head of Robotics, where his team developed general-purpose robots through new approaches to transfer learning, and taught robots complex behaviors.

Connect with Wojciech: Personal website: https://wojzaremba.com// Twitter: https://twitter.com/woj_zaremba


Topics Discussed: 0:00 Sneak peek and intro 1:03 The people and principles behind OpenAI 6:31 The stages of future AI developments 13:42 The Fermi paradox 16:18 What drives Wojciech? 19:17 Thoughts on robotics 24:58 Dota and other projects at OpenAI 33:42 What would make an AI conscious? 41:31 How to be succeed in robotics

Transcript: http://wandb.me/gd-wojciech-zaremba

Links: Fermi paradox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox OpenAI and Dota: https://openai.com/projects/five/


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