This is worth your 15 minutes:
Short version: Massive amounts of money are now being entrusted to AIs. (e.g. on the stock market) Because the contest between AIs has real world consequences, we give the AIs what they need. That could mean dynamiting a new tunnel across hundreds of miles to link New York to Chicago, (which already happened) hollowing out whole skyscrapers in the centers of metro areas to become computing cores, (which is happening now) or building platforms in the middle of the ocean (as the speaker predicts).
Short version: Massive amounts of money are now being entrusted to AIs. (e.g. on the stock market) Because the contest between AIs has real world consequences, we give the AIs what they need. That could mean dynamiting a new tunnel across hundreds of miles to link New York to Chicago, (which already happened) hollowing out whole skyscrapers in the centers of metro areas to become computing cores, (which is happening now) or building platforms in the middle of the ocean (as the speaker predicts).
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aeterna:
And by the way, TED is an amazing site. Very, very interesting. Would love to watch one of these conferences personally.
thescarykid:
Great video. I haven't enjoyed a video like this for a long time.