Wojciech Zaremba — What Could Make AI Conscious?

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

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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

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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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