VIP Class Notes (Nicholas)[S]

Write a short story – paragraph long maybe 2 – using the words from today. The story is about a computer that is so smart it takes over the world and threatens to “wipe out” humanity.

Creative writing = “show, don’t tell”….make it entertaining, don’t be safe, make your story a little crazy you can always make it less crazy later.

Pronunciation

world – WHIRL-LA-DUH

people – PEE-PULL

because

this / that / these / those / the / something – NO DUH, NO DIS

artificial

humanity

existential – EGG-SIH-STENCH-ULL

threat

technological pessimist –

instinctively

apocalyptic – UH-POCK-UH-LIP-TICK

distant – DIS-TINT

machine learning

Vocabulary

artificial – 人工 – not real

humanity – 人类 – all humans

existential – 存在 – a threat to our existence – a big big problem

threat – 威胁 – this could hurt or kill me

technological pessimist – 悲观主义 者 – a person who thinks negatively about technology

instinctively – 本能 – what I do without thinking

apocalyptic – 启示 – the world coming to an end

distant – 遥远 – far way

machine learning – 机器学习 – the computer learns itself – we do not teach it

Grammar

she knew that I dont have much time to playing with it / she knows that I don’t have much to to play 

there two different type of culture / types

like two world / worlds

a lot of student like me / students

the thing that improved much must be confidence / the thing that has improved the most must be my confidence

the competition in China education now / in Chinese education now

more confident than before / more confidently than before

Original

I think maybe boys – so I think in the gold generation girls always have much have more pressure than boys because girls maybe some day they weilll become mothers and they have to like take area of the whole family and they have to give up their own time just for family – other things I think girls are have more – always think more than boys – like with some simple things boy just go over it easily but girls maybe think all time and also the relationship in society it think girls always want more attention from others or they have more ideas in their brain and they want to like have more friends – they fun so much – they just want to be nice and be perfect in the other’s minds – but I dont think boys are always thinking about this stuff. From some news I always get some information that boys thinks the girl their life easy because everyone take care of girls not boys actually it think girls they are the true people that take care of kids and they also have like more physical problems than boys.

Corrected 

I think maybe boys – so I think in the old generation girls always have much have more pressure than boys because girls maybe some day they will become mothers and they have to like take care of the whole family and they have to give up / [sacrifice] their own time just for family – other things I think girls are have more – they always think more than boys – like with some simple things boys just go over it easily / [haphazardly / haphazard / carelessly]  but girls maybe think all the time and also the relationship in society it thinks girls always want more attention from others or they have more ideas in their brain and they want to like have more friends – they want to have fun so much – they just want to be nice and be perfect in the other’s minds / how others think about them is important / they value what other people think of them / their [perception] by others is important to them – but I dont think boys are always thinking about this stuff. From some news I always get / learn / hear some information that boys thinks girls their life is  easy because everyone takes care of girls not boys actually i think girls they are the real / actual people that take care of kids and they also have like more physical problems than boys.

Original

So successful people always hav ea lot of experience and maybe they have a company or have more money than average people and so they have to think more and they have to like they have experience they know how to – they need to keep on their work and they need to keep their successful reputation – and for the average people they might just want to keep on their life with a little comfortable things like they can have tie to relax or they can design what they want to do but maybe successful can’t they have to take care of their own business and if they want to keep being successful they need to like have really really more attention on their own work not their life.

Corrected 

So successful people always have a lot of experience and maybe they have a company or have more money than average people / more affluent / wealthier and so they have to think more and they have to like they have experience they know how to – they need to keep focused on their work and they need to keep their successful reputation – and for the average people they might just want to keep on with their life with a little comfortable things / just live their life simply like they can have time to relax or they can decide what they want to do but maybe successful don’t have this luxury / can’t they have to take care of their own business and if they want to keep being successful they need to like pay close attention to their own work  and not their personal life.

Original

I’m not sure what I will do in like 10 years because you know life very changeable today my opinion can stand for my opinion in 10 years the world could change and my opinion could change but it think the tings iw not change is I still will keep really good relationships with my parents and I hope that I can keep on moving forward not backward keeping trying hard whatever I find a job or lose thing maybe I lose my job or anything because I think 25 is a really not that old – maybe thats the very important time during your life – and so I think I could do something meaningful and I dont have so much things to regret.

Corrected 

I’m not sure what I will do in like 10 years because you know life is very changeable today my opinion can stand for my opinion in 10 years the world could change and my opinion could change but it think the tings that will not change are: I still will keep really good relationships with my parents and I hope that I can keep on moving forward not backward keeping trying hard whatever I find a job or lose thing maybe I lose my job or anything because I think 25 is a really not that old – maybe thats a very important time during your life – and so I think I could do something meaningful and I dont have so many things to regret.

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2018/11/2/18053418/elon-musk-artificial-intelligence-google-deepmind-openai

Elon Musk is usually far from a technological pessimist. From electric cars to Mars colonies, he’s made his name by insisting that the future can get here faster.

But when it comes to artificial intelligence, he sounds very different. Speaking at MIT in 2014, he called AI humanity’s “biggest existential threat” and compared it to “summoning the demon.”

He reiterated those fears in an interview published Friday with Recode’s Kara Swisher, though with a little less apocalyptic rhetoric. “As AI gets probably much smarter than humans, the relative intelligence ratio is probably similar to that between a person and a cat, maybe bigger,” Musk told Swisher. “I do think we need to be very careful about the advancement of AI.”

To many people — even many machine learning researchers — an AI that surpasses humans by as much as we surpass cats sounds like a distant dream. We’re still struggling to solve even simple-seeming problems with machine learning. Self-driving cars have an extremely hard time under unusual conditions because many things that come instinctively to humans — anticipating the movements of a biker, identifying a plastic bag flapping in the wind on the road — are very difficult to teach a computer. Greater-than-human capabilities seem a long way away.

Musk is hardly alone in sounding the alarm, though. AI scientists at Oxford and at UC Berkeley, luminaries like Stephen Hawking, and many of the researchers publishing groundbreaking results agree with Musk that AI could be very dangerous. They are concerned that we’re eagerly working toward deploying powerful AI systems, and that we might do so under conditions that are ripe for dangerous mistakes.

If we take these concerns seriously, what should we be doing? People concerned with AI risk vary enormously in the details of their approaches, but agree on one thing: We should be doing more research.